Video Game Studies

An online board gaming resource and community that includes reviews, ratings, images, play-aids, translations, and session reports from board game geeks across the world, as well as live discussion forums.

Preserves content, across varying web formats, generated by and related to digital games, in order to foster research within the discipline. Themes collected include critical gaming, game ethics, accessibility in gaming and game design, and user reviews and playthroughs.

A global multimedia organization covering the intersection of technology, gaming and entertainment.

The Escapist is an online magazine that offers news articles, columns, and features pertaining to video...

GameFAQs is a comprehensive collection of computer and video game cheat codes, walkthrough guides, reviews...

Kotaku is an international blog primarily reporting on video game news from Japan, Oceania, and North America...

Metacritic is a review site that compiles reviews from other review sources, and applies an algorithm...

MobyGames is an unofficial but highly comprehensive database of computer, console, and arcade games...

Includes around-the-clock news, features, esports coverage, hardware testing and game reviews on PCGamer.com, as well as major yearly events including the PC Gaming Show at E3.

This site contains press releases and news articles pertaining to academic research with computer...

The Video Game collection is intended to support the University's Media Arts & Game Design Program and therefore is restricted to UW-Whitewater faculty, staff and students. The collection includes representative games for Wii, WiiU, Play Station 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Nintendo 3DS and Playstation Vita. The Library does not collect every game in every format.

The Stephen M. Cabrinety Collection in the History of Microcomputing at Stanford University consists contains software, computer hardware, peripheral devices, hand-held games, and computer industry literature documenting the microcomputing gaming industry during its formative years.

The Library collects a variety of games and game-related media. The collection includes console games (e.g., Play station, Wii, Xbox and Nintendo Switch) as well as card and board games.

This collection provides students and researchers with the resources to study a wide range of video games and related interactive media objects. It covers games from the late 1970's to the present. It includes mainstream titles, educational games and unique and independent games in handheld, console, and PC format..

The Gerald M Kline Digital and Multimedia Center is home to game labs for study and recreation alike. Console games may be played by individuals or groups in their fully equipped gaming rooms.

The Center conducts both specialized and comprehensive research on a wide range of games and play, from traditional toys and play equipment to games that use the most recent technology.

The William A. Higinbotham Game Studies Collection contributes directly to the study of video games as popular culture and to their historical longevity

The Science & Engineering Library's video game lab and collection was designed to allow the UCSC community to explore, research, and enjoy retro and modern video games. The collection includes over 1,000 games and 40 consoles available for checkout, as well as a lab space with gaming stations available for use.

The Library's video game collection was established in 2012 to support the research and teaching of students and faculty working on transmedia, new media or comparative media studies, as well as reflecting an emerging research interest on campus in game programming, the sociology of games, videogame music, and other areas that touch on videogames, gaming and gamers.

The UIUC Gaming collection was created to support a wide variety of campus interdisciplinary programs, scholarly research, and student needs involving video games. The collection supports disciplines such as psychology, speech communications, computer science, information science, literature, and others which are investigating the technology, game world structure, narratives, and social interactions generated involved in video games.

This library has a collection of newer video games that circulate for classroom and personal use.

The UT Videogame Archive is a collection component of The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History that seeks to preserve and protect the records of videogame developers, publishers, and artists for use by a wide array of researchers.

A collection of video games chosen specifically to challenge the boundaries of gaming + learning, with the goal of exploring how students learn through gameplay and game design in hopes of expanding the horizons of technology-enhanced active learning.

The world's first permanent exhibition of interactive digital entertainment culture.

LOC receives a copy of video games as they are released, and works to preserve them, as well as strategy guides, video samples of game play, and related works.

The MADE is a center and museum dedicated to activities that engage participants with all forms of digital art and entertainment.

Forgotten and broken down Soviet-era arcade games are now being restored for Moscow’s newest museum and now it is possible to play and feel atmosphere of the passed epoch.

Holdings include licensed merchandise, technical apparatus, still photographs, design materials, costumes, games, fan magazines, marketing materials of all kinds, video and computer games, and movie theater furnishings.

This museum archives all aspects of play, including games.