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	Unsworth, John. "Living Inside the (Operating) System: Community in Virtual Reality" - http://www.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/Virtual.Community.html Essay discussing communities in MOOs, using PMC-MOO as a case study and discussing scholarly and pedagogical trajectories of MOOs. 1996.
	Richard A. Bartle. "Players Who Suit MUDs" - http://www.mud.co.uk/richard/hcds.htm Discusses whether MUDs are games, pass times, sports or entertainments and suggests four kinds of player: achiever, explorer, socializer or killer.
	Juul, Jesper. "A clash between game and narrative" - http://www.jesperjuul.dk/thesis/ MA thesis by a Danish ludologist arguing that games are not narrative. Links to his other work. 1999.
	Goldstein, Jeffrey. "Does Playing Violent Video Games Cause Aggressive Behavior?" - http://culturalpolicy.uchicago.edu/conf2001/papers/goldstein.html Quick and very sharp critique of the validity of recent research on video games and violence.
	Castronova, Edward: Virtual Worlds: A First-Hand Account of Market and Society on the Cyberian Frontier - http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=294828 Abstract of report on the economy of Everquest, arguing that this virtual world has as real an economy as most nation states. Full text by subscription only.

	Kennerly, David. "Fun is Fine: Toward a Philosophy of Game Design" - http://finegamedesign.com/fun_is_fine.html Argues that honest game design begins and ends with "fun" considered philosophically.
	Klevjer, Rune. "In Defence of Cutscenes" - http://www.uib.no/people/smkrk/docs/klevjerpaper.htm Article situating cutscenes in games in relation to popular culture and narrative, arguing against the radical ludologist position that they are extraneous.
	Friedman, Ted. "Making Sense of Software: Computer Games and Interactive Textuality" - http://www.duke.edu/~tlove/simcity.htm Essay about video games including an analysis of SimCity written by Ted Friedman.
	Anderson, Craig A. and Karen E. Dill. "Video Games and Aggressive Thoughts, Feelings, and Behavior in the Laboratory and in Life" - http://content.apa.org/journals/psp/78/4/772.html Abstract of article showing increased aggression in video game players. Full text by subscription.

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