A new issue of the free online scholarly journal Game Studies has just been published. Game Studies is now in its eleventh year, a fact as startling as it is encouraging.

In addition to new articles on games and pragmatist aesthetics, bishōjo games, serious games, and the use of music playlists in games, the issue is jam-packed with eight book reviews.

I'm grateful that three of them review two of my books, Persuasive Games and Racing the Beam (w/Nick Montfort):

Tensions Between Meaning Construction and Persuasion in Games, review of Persuasive Games by Jan H.G. Klabbers

The Fun is Back, review of Racing the Beam by Lars Konzack

Hackers, History, and Game Design: What Racing the Beam Is Not, review of Racing the Beam by José P. Zagal

I'm grateful to these three for their comments on my work.

In addition to reviews of my books, you can read reviews of Noah Wardrip-Fruin's Expressive Processing, of Nick Dyer-Witherford and Greig de Peuter Games of Empire, of Jesper Juul's, A Casual Revolution, and of Alex Galloway's Gaming - Essays on Algorithmic Culture. Speaking of book reviews and Games of Empire, Simon Ferrari and I have just written a review of that book as well, which should appear later this year in Enterprise and Society. I'll publish that here once it's out in print.