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• Well Played: A Journal on Video Games, Value and Meaning (2011-) (full serial archives)
• Hardcore Gamer (complete print run, 2005-2010, and later online material) (full serial archives)

• Games+Learning+Society Conference Proceedings (2011-) (partial serial archives)

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• Well Played 3.0: Video Games, Value and Meaning (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, 2011), by Drew Davidson (PDF with commentary at Figshare)
• Well Played 2.0: Video Games, Value and Meaning (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, 2010), by Drew Davidson (PDF with commentary at Figshare)
• Well Played 1.0: Video Games, Value and Meaning (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, 2009), by Drew Davidson (PDF with commentary at CMU)
• Program Arcade Games With Python And Pygame (c2017), by Paul Vincent Craven (illustrated HTML with commentary at programarcadegames.com)
• DOOM: Scarydarkfast (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2013), by Daniel Pinchbeck (illustrated HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
• Atari Graphics and Arcade Game Design (c1984), by Jeffrey Stanton and Dan Pinal (illustrated HTML at atariarchives.org)
• Trigger Happy: Videogames and the Entertainment Revolution (2001 edition, with 2004 afterword), by Steven Poole (PDF with commentary at stevenpoole.net)
• Compute!'s First Book of Atari (Greensboro, NC: COMPUTE! Books, c1981) (illustrated HTML at atariarchives.org)

• Game Mods: Design, Theory and Criticism (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2012), ed. by Erik Champion (PDF with commentary at CMU)
• Game Design Snacks: Easily Digestible Game Design Wisdom (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2017), ed. by José P. Zagal (PDF with commentary at CMU)
• Metagaming: Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Videogames (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2017), by Stephanie Boluk and Patrick LeMieux (illustrated HTML with commentary at umn.edu)
• The Transformational Framework: A Process Tool for the Development of Transformational Games (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2018), by Sabrina Culyba (PDF with commentary at CMU)
• Diversifying Barbie and Mortal Kombat: Intersectional Perspectives and Inclusive Designs in Gaming (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2016), ed. by Yasmin B. Kafai, Gabriela T. Richard, and Brendesha M. Tynes (PDF with commentary at CMU)

• Tempest: Geometries of Play (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015), by Judd Ethan Ruggill and Ken S. McAllister (HTML with commentary at Digital Culture Books)
• Halcyon Days: Interviews with Classic Computer and Video Game Programmers (free web version, c2002), by James Hague (HTML with commentary at dadgum.com)

• Nonverbal Communication in Virtual Worlds: Understanding and Designing Expressive Characters (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, 2014), ed. by Joshua Tanenbaum, Magy Seif El-Nasr, and Michael Nixon (PDF with commentary at CMU)

• EarthBound: Nintendo Player's Guide (c1995), by Nintendo of America Inc. (PDF at nintendo.co.jp)

• Trigger Happy: Videogames and the Entertainment Revolution (2001 edition, with 2004 afterword), by Steven Poole (PDF with commentary at stevenpoole.net)

• Thought-Provoking Play: Political Philosophies in Science Fictional Videogame Spaces From Japan (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2017), by Martin Roth (PDF with commentary at CMU)

• Diversifying Barbie and Mortal Kombat: Intersectional Perspectives and Inclusive Designs in Gaming (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2016), ed. by Yasmin B. Kafai, Gabriela T. Richard, and Brendesha M. Tynes (PDF with commentary at CMU)

• The Transformational Framework: A Process Tool for the Development of Transformational Games (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2018), by Sabrina Culyba (PDF with commentary at CMU)
• This Gaming Life: Travels in Three Cities (2008), by Jim Rossignol (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
• Diversifying Barbie and Mortal Kombat: Intersectional Perspectives and Inclusive Designs in Gaming (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2016), ed. by Yasmin B. Kafai, Gabriela T. Richard, and Brendesha M. Tynes (PDF with commentary at CMU)
• Keys to Play: Music as a Ludic Medium from Apollo to Nintendo (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, c2016), by Roger Moseley (multiple formats with commentary at Luminos)

• Video Games and the Global South (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2019), ed. by Phillip Penix-Tadsen (PDF with commentary at CMU)
• Metagaming: Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Videogames (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2017), by Stephanie Boluk and Patrick LeMieux (illustrated HTML with commentary at umn.edu)
• Diversifying Barbie and Mortal Kombat: Intersectional Perspectives and Inclusive Designs in Gaming (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2016), ed. by Yasmin B. Kafai, Gabriela T. Richard, and Brendesha M. Tynes (PDF with commentary at CMU)
• This Gaming Life: Travels in Three Cities (2008), by Jim Rossignol (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
• The Ecology of Games: Connecting Youth, Games, and Learning (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007), ed. by Katie Salen Tekinbaş (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• The Transformational Framework: A Process Tool for the Development of Transformational Games (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2018), by Sabrina Culyba (PDF with commentary at CMU)
• Missions for Thoughtful Gamers (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2011), by Andrew Cutting (multiple formats with commentary at CMU)
• Trigger Happy: Videogames and the Entertainment Revolution (2001 edition, with 2004 afterword), by Steven Poole (PDF with commentary at stevenpoole.net)

• The Civic Potential of Video Games (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2009), by Joseph Kahne, Ellen Middaugh, and Chris Evans (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Tempest: Geometries of Play (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015), by Judd Ethan Ruggill and Ken S. McAllister (HTML with commentary at Digital Culture Books)

• Teachercraft: How Teachers Learn to Use Minecraft in Their Classrooms (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2015), by Seann Dikkers (PDF with commentary at CMU)

• Silent Hill: The Terror Engine (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2011), by Bernard Perron (illustrated HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)

• Tempest: Geometries of Play (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015), by Judd Ethan Ruggill and Ken S. McAllister (HTML with commentary at Digital Culture Books)

• ToDIGRA: Transactions of the Digital Games Research Association (2013-) (full serial archives)
• Hardcore Gamer (complete print run, 2005-2010, and later online material) (full serial archives)

• Game Developer (digital magazine content and code archive, 1994-2013) (full serial archives)

• Games+Learning+Society Conference Proceedings (2011-) (partial serial archives)

• Hardcore Gamer (complete print run, 2005-2010, and later online material) (full serial archives)

• A Check-List of American and English Periodicals (Boston: Boston Book Co, 1908), by Frederick W. Faxon (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The American Eclectic (full serial archives)
• The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature (new edition; 10 parts plus appendix; London: H. G. Bohn, 1857-1865), by William Thomas Lowndes and Henry G. Bohn (page images at HathiTrust)

• Magazine Circulation: An Outline of Methods and Meanings (New York: The McCall Co., c1936), by Phillips Wyman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Writer's Market (partial serial archives)

• Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (revised 1891 edition and 5 supplementary volumes; reprinted 1958), by William Frederick Poole, William Isaac Fletcher, Franklin Osborne Poole, and Mary Poole
  • A-J, 1802-1881: multiple formats at archive.org
  • K-Z, 1802-1881: multiple formats at archive.org
  • 1st supplement, 1882-1887: multiple formats at archive.org
  • 2nd supplement, 1887-1892: multiple formats at archive.org
  • 3rd supplement, 1892-1896: multiple formats at archive.org
  • 4th supplement, 1897-1902: multiple formats at archive.org
  • 5th supplement, 1902-1907: multiple formats at archive.org
• Annual Magazine Subject-Index (including a dramatic index for most years) (partial serial archives)
• International Index to Periodicals (partial serial archives)
• Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature (partial serial archives)
• Cumulative Index to a Selected List of Periodicals (partial serial archives)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.