Hi all, For a little light summer reading :), here's a shameless plug for my new book "Cheating: Gaining Advantage in Videogames" which is now available from MIT Press (or Amazon, or etc). Here's the brief blurb and places to find it: "The widely varying experiences of players of digital games challenge the notions that there is only one correct way to play a game. Some players routinely use cheat codes, consult strategy guides, or buy and sell in-game accounts, while others consider any or all of these practices off limits. Meanwhile, the game industry works to constrain certain readings or activities and promote certain ways of playing. In Cheating, Mia Consalvo investigates how players choose to play games and what happens when they can't always play the way they'd like. She explores a broad range of player behavior, including cheating (alone and in groups), examines the varying ways that players and industry define cheating, describes how the game industry itself has helped systematize cheating, and studies online cheating in context in an online ethnography of Final Fantasy XI. She develops the concept of "gaming capital" as a key way to understand individuals' interaction with games, information about games, the game industry, and other players." http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11153 http://www.amazon.com/Cheating-Advantage-Videogames-Mia-Consalvo/dp/02620336 58/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-7568115-4449563?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1182189765&sr=8-1 Enjoy! Mia -- Mia Consalvo, Associate Professor Director of Graduate Studies 213 RTV Building School of Telecommunications 9 South College Street Ohio University Athens, OH 45701 740.597.1521