As I was growing up in Paris, there was a strange plastic cube sitting in the living room of my
family's apartment. It was beige in color and would have nicely tied the room together in a …

Videogames are important cultural and economic artifacts. They also present challenges
that anticipate the problems inherent in any complex digital interactive system. Not only are …

This paper aims to show how videogames are construed as archival objects in the
videogame‐preservation literature by investigating drivers and motivations, selection of …

In 1995 in the midst of the first widespread wave of digitization, the Modern Language
Association issued a Statement on the Significance of Primary Records in order to assert the …

Despite increasing interest in and acknowledgment of the significance of video games,
current descriptive practices are not sufficiently robust to support searching, browsing, and …

In this article, we describe a conceptual model for video games and interactive media.
Existing conceptual models such as the F unctional R equirements for B ibliographic R …

As interest in video games increases, so does the need for intelligent access to them.
However, traditional organizational systems and standards fall short. To fill this gap, we are …

This essay contends that the search for video games' unique qualities has contributed to a
misleading conception of “narrative” media against which video games have been defined …

The problem for curators and archivists of digital games is that the games are inherently
unstable. As a range of commentators have explored, gameplay in digital games often takes …

2 Melanie Swalwell, Helen Stuckey and Angela Ndalianis these texts examine game
fandom. likewise, the Fan Phenomena series (Intellect/University of Chicago Press) …