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covert.c's thought matrix on computer games, MMOs and design

http://covertcreative.blogspot.com
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Friday August 18 2006 03:30
Friday July 04 2008 12:13
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Explorations in the world of independent game development.

http://sonicron.solaristudios.com
http://sonicron.solaristudios.com/feed/
Sunday September 23 2007 00:30
Friday July 04 2008 04:29
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A group blog hosting semi-serious discussion of video games and video game criticism.

http://www.academic-gamers.org/
http://www.academic-gamers.org/cgi/blosxom.cgi/index.rss
Saturday June 11 2005 22:15
Thursday July 03 2008 03:29
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AllOutGames weblog

http://homomojo.com/games.php
http://homomojo.com/xml-rss2.php?blogid=7
Saturday January 28 2006 19:10
Monday June 30 2008 16:52
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Toby Hede's blog of games, java and general internet weirdness.

http://www.info-architects.net/vapourized/index.php
http://info-architects.net/vapourized/rss/games.php
Wednesday August 16 2006 04:30
Wednesday July 02 2008 17:12
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Welcome to a shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man...who does not exist. A young loner on a crusade to champion the cause of the innocent, the helpless, the powerless...in a world of criminals who operate above the law.

http://www.jillyboel.com/members/matt/blog
http://www.jillyboel.com/members/matt/blog/atom.xml
Wednesday October 17 2007 10:45
Friday June 06 2008 20:02
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A Win32 - C++ - DirectX engine

http://bitx-engine.blogspot.com
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Friday July 15 2005 11:15
Thursday July 03 2008 03:30
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If it breaks, you get to keep both parts

http://www.blackwood.dk/weblog
http://www.blackwood.dk/weblog/feed/rss2/
Monday December 31 2007 17:45
Wednesday July 02 2008 19:42
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A selection of thoughts, notes, reviews and such from my brain.

http://www.brettdouville.com/
http://www.brettdouville.com/index.xml
Monday May 19 2008 13:30
Monday June 16 2008 01:36
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Rambling musings, very occasionally about massively multiplayer games.

http://www.brokentoys.org
http://www.brokentoys.org/wordpress/wp-rss2.php
Thursday July 03 2008 22:45
Wednesday July 02 2008 16:08
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Welcome to popularculturegaming.com. I am a phd student at Indiana University and my research centers on an ethnographic approach to studying videogames and videogame players. I can be reached at jccalhoun at either hotmail or gmail (and just …

http://popularculturegaming.com/
http://popularculturegaming.com/index.rdf
Saturday May 12 2007 16:15
Monday June 30 2008 15:31
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Games For Everyone Else

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ninjack/
http://spaces.msn.com/members/ninjack/feed.rss
Tuesday May 30 2006 12:45
Tuesday July 01 2008 07:04
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http://cathodetan.blogspot.com
http://cathodetan.blogspot.com/atom.xml
Saturday July 05 2008 00:45
Thursday July 03 2008 03:07
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Charlie's blog on game design, development and business

http://www.charliecleveland.com/
http://www.charliecleveland.com/index.rdf
Thursday September 29 2005 15:15
Friday July 04 2008 04:29
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chewing pixels spitting sprites

http://www.chewingpixels.com
http://www.chewingpixels.com/?feed=rss2
Thursday July 03 2008 01:15
Thursday July 03 2008 17:46
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Curmudgeoning All Games Equally

http://curmudgeongamer.com
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Wednesday June 18 2008 04:30
Monday June 30 2008 16:16
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Weblog über Computerspiele, Videospiele und Spielkultur.

http://d-frag.de/
http://d-frag.de/index.xml
Monday March 17 2008 20:15
Friday June 06 2008 15:41
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GameSpace.nl

http://www.gamespace.nl
http://www.gamespace.nl/backend/geeklog.rdf
Thursday November 23 2006 12:01
Thursday June 05 2008 05:43
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my thoughts on games. Reviews, Essays, etc.

http://www.dcyde.net/
http://www.dcyde.net/index.rss
Saturday June 11 2005 20:55
Friday June 06 2008 16:17
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Your source for game and graphics development

http://www.devmaster.net/
http://www.devmaster.net/rss/
Sunday March 12 2006 16:10
Monday June 30 2008 16:39
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A weblog dealing with games, tech, humor,
music, books, and life in general.

http://www.docsblog.com/
http://www.docsblog.com/index.rdf
Sunday March 20 2005 19:20
Monday June 30 2008 16:43
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MMORPGs, gaming, education, society, life, and one group's attempt to make sense of it all

http://everkvetch.blogs.com/everkvetch/
http://everkvetch.blogs.com/everkvetch/index.rdf
Saturday July 05 2008 02:45
Friday June 06 2008 15:37
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http://www.unet.fi/fransblog
http://www.unet.fi/fransblog/feed/atom.xml
Tuesday August 08 2006 03:01
Thursday June 19 2008 02:23
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Gamasutra Feature Articles

http://www.gamasutra.com/features
http://www.gamasutra.com/include/articles_xml_include.xml
Friday July 04 2008 18:15
Friday July 04 2008 06:18
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A blog about game programming

http://gamedevelopmentdiary.blogspot.com
http://gamedevelopmentdiary.blogspot.com/atom.xml
Monday July 04 2005 06:41
Monday June 30 2008 22:58
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Design // Business // Marketing -- An insider's view of the game industry.

http://dukenukem.typepad.com/game_matters/
http://dukenukem.typepad.com/game_matters/index.rdf
Sunday May 18 2008 22:30
Thursday July 03 2008 03:30
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Jamie Fristrom on game development: design, management, code...everything but art.

http://www.gamedevblog.com/
http://www.gamedevblog.com/index.rdf
Wednesday June 18 2008 23:45
Wednesday July 02 2008 12:37
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http://www.gamemechanic.com
http://www.gamemechanic.com/feed/atom.xml
Saturday June 11 2005 22:00
Friday June 27 2008 12:08
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Serious gamoid drivel, ranging from the scholarly to the snide. Sercon, if you know the term, but not devoid of humor.

http://www.costik.com/weblog/
http://www.costik.com/weblog/public_html/weblog/blogger_rss.xml
Sunday February 24 2008 06:30
Saturday June 21 2008 20:49
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Games research blog run by Andrew Mactavish (Assistant Professor of Multimedia, School of the Arts, McMaster University).

http://strange.mcmaster.ca/~mactavis/weblog/research/
http://strange.mcmaster.ca/~mactavis/weblog/research/index.rdf
Wednesday May 04 2005 21:20
Thursday July 03 2008 03:30
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Independent videogame news, reviews, previews and more since 1995.

http://www.gamesfirst.com
http://gamesfirst.com/rss.php
Sunday April 06 2008 20:15
Thursday July 03 2008 03:22
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IBM leaders discuss the future of gaming

http://gametomorrow.com/blog
http://www.gametomorrow.com/blog/wp-rss2.php
Monday June 23 2008 21:30
Monday June 30 2008 22:59
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Deep Video Game Ideas

http://gametruthdotorg.blogspot.com
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Gametruth
Saturday July 05 2008 00:45
Monday June 23 2008 15:48
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Think Global, Act Mammal

http://blogs.gameblogs.org/GlobalMammal
http://blogs.gameblogs.org/GlobalMammal/index.php?feed=rss2&cat=3
Friday August 26 2005 20:50
Thursday July 03 2008 03:30
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A group blog about computer narrative, games, poetry, and art.

http://grandtextauto.gatech.edu
http://grandtextauto.gatech.edu/feed/rss2/
Saturday June 28 2008 19:01
Friday July 04 2008 07:55
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personal reflections on computer games and other art forms

http://www.stechmann.com/blog
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Sunday March 05 2006 14:40
Tuesday June 17 2008 16:03
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Cyberspace. Virtual communities. Online games. Distributed systems.
Opinion, history, advice, and silliness from two guys who've been building this stuff for a long, long time.

http://www.fudco.com/habitat/
http://www.fudco.com/habitat/index.rdf
Monday June 09 2008 20:30
Friday June 06 2008 16:13
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Mr. B's log

http://www.henrikbennetsen.com/
http://www.henrikbennetsen.com/wp-rss2.php
Friday April 13 2007 04:30
Thursday July 03 2008 03:29
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Research on computer games, comic books, and mass media franchises.

http://www.earthx.org/
http://www.earthx.org/node/feed
Saturday April 29 2006 17:45
Friday June 06 2008 17:13
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If I had something to say I would put up a web-page. This is a blog.

http://www.mythicalblog.com/
http://mythicalblog.com/blog/feed/
Sunday October 28 2007 01:30
Thursday July 03 2008 03:29
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As if you don't waste enough of your time in a gamer's haze, here's Kotaku: a gamer's guide that goes beyond the press release. Gossip, cheats, criticism, design, nostalgia, prediction. Don't get a life just yet.

http://www.kotaku.com/
http://www.kotaku.com/index.xml
Friday July 04 2008 23:01
Friday July 04 2008 13:01
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Scott Brodie's thoughts on creativity and the design process.

http://www.msu.edu/~brodies1/log/index.html
http://www.msu.edu/~brodies1/log/feed.xml
Wednesday January 10 2007 12:15
Wednesday July 02 2008 19:43
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The thoughts of a video game Level Designer - http://www.levelarchitect.com.

http://anichols.blogspot.com
http://anichols.blogspot.com/atom.xml
Sunday June 24 2007 18:15
Thursday June 26 2008 14:58
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This site contains two topics: - Essays on the economics and process of game design. - Galleries of illustrations.

http://lostgarden.com/index.html
http://lostgarden.com/atom.xml
Saturday June 28 2008 23:30
Thursday July 03 2008 03:29
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exploring ludic media

http://www.ludonauts.com/
http://www.ludonauts.com/feed/
Saturday July 05 2008 00:30
Sunday June 15 2008 21:51
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The Personal Rants of Corvus Elrod

http://blog.pjsattic.com/corvus
http://blog.pjsattic.com/corvus/index.php?feed=rss2
Thursday July 03 2008 11:01
Thursday July 03 2008 03:08
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The original is unfaithful to the translation

http://mattpeckham.com
http://mattpeckham.com/feed/mattpeckham.xml
Tuesday November 08 2005 00:35
Thursday June 05 2008 05:16
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Game news, views, and ramblings...

http://memorycard.blogs.com/memorycard/
http://memorycard.blogs.com/memorycard/index.rdf
Tuesday July 03 2007 19:30
Monday June 30 2008 16:47
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wherever you go, there you are

http://milezero.org/index.cgi
http://milezero.org/index.cgi/gaming?flav=rss
Thursday July 03 2008 01:15
Tuesday June 17 2008 05:37
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Brought to you by myRSS - build your own RSS channel

http://particlestream.motime.com/
http://syndication.motime.com/particlestream/rss2.xml
Thursday November 09 2006 03:45
Friday June 06 2008 16:14
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blogging through the gaming multiverse

http://www.nag.co.za/blog
http://www.nag.co.za/blog/wp-rss2.php
Sunday March 20 2005 19:20
Monday June 30 2008 16:06
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Dismantling Patriarchy One Video Game at a Time

http://www.lake-desire.com/newgameplus
http://www.lake-desire.com/newgameplus/index.php/feed/
Tuesday June 24 2008 21:45
Sunday June 08 2008 22:07
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http://nongames.com
http://nongames.com/backend/geeklog.rdf
Tuesday May 30 2006 00:45
Wednesday July 02 2008 19:43
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Thoughts, ramblings and braindumps about game design, level design, ludology, the games industry and random personal stuff.

http://nullsumme.blogspot.com
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Wednesday June 04 2008 12:15
Tuesday July 01 2008 16:03
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This blog is the chronicle of my experiences with Grandma, the video-game playing queen of her age-bracket and weight class. She will beat any PS2, XBox, GameCube, etc., console game put in front of her, just like she always has. Her favorite game of all time was Final Fantasy VII, her current …

http://oghc.blogspot.com
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Saturday June 28 2008 11:01
Thursday July 03 2008 03:30
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Outside Looking In A wannabe game developer looks into the industry.

http://jeffool.blogspot.com
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Wednesday April 12 2006 09:30
Sunday June 15 2008 13:36
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Chris Bateman of International Hobo randomly transcribes thoughts he has about games, game design, game narrative, philosophy, and anything else that tumbles through his mind.

http://onlyagame.typepad.com/only_a_game/
http://onlyagame.typepad.com/only_a_game/atom.xml
Wednesday July 02 2008 12:15
Thursday July 03 2008 03:07
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By Gamer. For Gamers.

http://www.over-clocked.net
http://over-clocked.blogspot.com/atom.xml
Thursday May 05 2005 01:20
Friday June 06 2008 16:02
15
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a blog about fiction and games

http://particlestream.motime.com
http://syndication.motime.com/particlestream/rss2.xml
Wednesday November 08 2006 19:01
Friday June 06 2008 16:00
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http://particleblog.blogspot.com
http://particleblog.blogspot.com/atom.xml
Sunday June 08 2008 10:01
Wednesday June 11 2008 22:15
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My blog about video games, gaming news and trends within the indusry. I also dedicate a page strictly to breaking into the video game industry.

http://www.pixeltheories.com
http://www.pixeltheories.com/webfeed.xml
Sunday June 18 2006 15:30
Friday June 06 2008 15:22
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Discussion and criticism on gaming arts, practice, and research

http://playcube.org/index.php
http://playcube.org/xmlsrv/rss2.php?blog=5
Tuesday November 08 2005 00:35
Sunday June 15 2008 21:52
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http://theplayethic.typepad.com/play_journal/
http://theplayethic.typepad.com/play_journal/index.rdf
Wednesday May 14 2008 21:45
Thursday June 05 2008 05:44
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http://uticensis.blogspot.com
http://uticensis.blogspot.com/atom.xml
Sunday August 27 2006 00:30
Wednesday July 02 2008 17:11
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Musings about (online) game development and life.

http://blog.psychochild.org
http://blog.psychochild.org/wp-rss2.php
Friday February 24 2006 03:10
Friday June 06 2008 15:23
86
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RedAssedBabbon.com blog entries

http://www.redassedbaboon.com
http://www.redassedbaboon.com/rss/blog.xml
Monday February 27 2006 22:10
Monday June 30 2008 15:49
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A conservative videogamer's view of the industry.

http://rightongames.blogspot.com
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Wednesday December 13 2006 05:30
Monday June 09 2008 17:41
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notes on games, artificial intelligence, and programming

http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/~rob/blog
http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/~rob/blog/wordpress/wp-rss2.php
Saturday June 11 2005 21:30
Friday July 04 2008 09:53
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http://www.itu.dk/people/folmann/
http://www.itu.dk/people/folmann/atom.xml
Saturday June 11 2005 19:00
Thursday June 26 2008 12:51
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http://shoelaceshaderguy.blogspot.com
http://shoelaceshaderguy.blogspot.com/atom.xml
Tuesday March 21 2006 02:01
Thursday July 03 2008 03:30
22
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Social Study Games site syndication

socialstudygames.com
http://socialstudygames.com/index2.php?option=com_rssxt&type=RSS2.0&no_html=1
Wednesday October 03 2007 14:45
Wednesday July 02 2008 19:49
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creativity x technology

http://www.tgr.com/weblog/
http://www.tgr.com/weblog/index.xml
Monday October 01 2007 11:45
Wednesday July 02 2008 12:42
677
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A weblog about virtual worlds.

http://terranova.blogs.com/terra_nova/
http://terranova.blogs.com/terra_nova/index.rdf
Thursday July 03 2008 17:45
Thursday July 03 2008 06:15
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The research blog of Jonas Heide Smith

http://jonassmith.dk/weblog
http://jonassmith.dk/weblog/?feed=rss2
Friday July 04 2008 00:45
Friday July 04 2008 06:19
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It's a game blog.

http://thehallways.blogspot.com
http://thehallways.blogspot.com/atom.xml
Saturday November 12 2005 18:05
Monday June 09 2008 17:41
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Game research and other important things

http://jesperjuul.dk/ludologist/index.php
http://jesperjuul.dk/ludologist/index.php?feed=rss2
Monday June 30 2008 23:30
Thursday July 03 2008 03:30
348
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Comment and discussion on Valve Software's digital distribution platform.

http://www.steamreview.org
http://feeds.feedburner.com/steamreview
Monday June 30 2008 00:01
Sunday June 15 2008 13:36
151
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http://www.damnedmachines.com
http://www.damnedmachines.com/atom.xml
Wednesday October 04 2006 15:01
Wednesday July 02 2008 12:48
445
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Unfettered Blather

http://www.unfetteredblather.com/nucleus/
http://www.unfetteredblather.com/?feed=rss2&cat=4
Thursday July 03 2008 12:15
Saturday June 14 2008 07:01
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My pithy slogan

http://utopianhell.com/
http://utopianhell.com/?rss=1&category=Gaming§ion=blog
Tuesday April 04 2006 19:30
Thursday June 05 2008 04:45
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A video game thinktank

http://vicejoy.blogspot.com
http://vicejoy.blogspot.com/atom.xml
Thursday December 13 2007 13:01
Thursday July 03 2008 03:30
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http://www.virtuallearningworlds.com/
http://www.virtuallearningworlds.com/atom.xml
Saturday June 11 2005 20:05
Wednesday July 02 2008 19:49
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Water Cooler Games is a forum for the uses of video games in advertising, politics, activism, and other everyday activities, outside the sphere of entertainment.

http://www.watercoolergames.org/
http://www.watercoolergames.org/index.xml
Thursday July 03 2008 19:15
Thursday July 03 2008 03:28
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Online games - worlds of geeks?

http://www.worldofgeeks.com/index.html
http://www.worldofgeeks.com/atom.xml
Thursday March 08 2007 15:01
Monday June 09 2008 17:42
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Theory and criticism by Brandon Rickman

http://www.antimodal.com/
http://www.antimodal.com/index.rdf
Wednesday April 16 2008 07:45
Wednesday July 02 2008 12:43
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General mumblings on game design, politics, sports, and whatever the hell else comes to mind

http://www.zenofdesign.com/
http://www.zenofdesign.com/?feed=rss2
Wednesday July 02 2008 22:15
Wednesday July 02 2008 19:49
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nullsumme's ModBlog

http://nullsumme.modblog.com/
http://nullsumme.modblog.com/backend/modblog/modblogs.rss.php
Friday December 02 2005 18:20
Tuesday June 17 2008 16:21
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