[Via Lars Konzack]

As a counterpoint to lists warning against Top 1o Most Evil Games, many feel called to make a canon of the very finest specimens ever.
Here’s Kjetil Sandvik‘s recent attempt:

Spacewar (first real computer game) Pong (first commercial game) Colossal Cave Adventure (first text adventure) Asteroids [...]

At Edge Daniel C. Dennett describes his Law of Needy Readers:

On any important topic, we tend to have a dim idea of what we hope to be true, and when an author writes the words we want to read, we tend to fall for it, no matter how shoddy the arguments. Needy [...]

For the Danish speakers: The Spilforskning.dk network is having an open conference next Wednesday entitled ‘Computerspillets Verden’.
I’ll be speaking under the heading “Games and violence – what was the question again?”.