- BioShock and Portal: A Discussion of Poetics, byYotam Haimberg
- We should be heroes… A case study of community building as a dominant strategy, by Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen
- Cracking the Code: Untangling Game Structure, Properties and Player Experience, by Elizabeth Goins
- A Life in Baseball, Digital and Otherwise, by Abraham Stein
The Well Played Journal is a forum for in-depth close readings of video games that parse out the various meanings to be found in the experience of playing a game. It is a reviewed journal open to submissions that will be released on a regular basis with high-quality essays.
