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This publication has been generously supported by Simon Fraser University through the Research Opportunities Committee, Faculty of Education and through a serial publications fund grant awarded by the University Publications Committee.

ISSN 1923-2691

Our Mission Statement

Loading... attempts to provide a mixed-methods approach to the study of digital games, and therefore invites not only traditional academic papers, but may reprint 'classic' works in the field, as well as provide a forum for machinima, new and open-source innovative code, product reviews, blogs, program descriptions and course outlines for games studies and 'conversations' within and across the trajectories of inquiry and activity that constitute Canadian Games Studies now and into the future.

A print-based and online journal, Loading... publishes empirical, theoretical, and design-based research on the multifaceted, multimodal, interdisciplinary subject of digital games. It invites papers which approach research and scholarship in the field of game studies from its many angles: social, cultural, technical, theoretical, procedural, artistic...

The journal aims to support current and future interdisciplinary, multi-method and multimodal approaches to the study of digital games. Its principal goal is to support both the established and fledgling work of Canadian scholars, to give them a voice on the international scene of game studies, and to establish a uniquely Canadian voice in a field that is currently described as a polarization of perspectives between the United States and Europe. Loading... will support the valuable contribution of Canadian scholarship in directing and shaping this burgeoning field.