Below is a collection of recently completed projects or works-in-progress.

Game Over 2: Race, Gender and Violence in Video Games

Written, directed and produced by Nina B. Huntemann Game Over 2 is a much-needed update to the 2000 educational documentary Game Over distributed by the Media Education Foundation. I am in the middle of production with an expected release date fall 2010.

Playtesting and QA: Creators/Mediators of Culture

This spring I started interviewing past and present playtesters and quality assurance (QA) specialists in game development. This is the first phase of a monograph about labor relations in the games industry.

Joystick Soldiers: The Politics of Play in Military Video Games

Edited by Nina B. Huntemann and Matthew Thomas Payne (Routledge, 2009) Joystick Soldiers is the first anthology to examine the reciprocal relationship between militarism and video games. War has been an integral theme of the games industry since the invention of the first video game, Spacewar! in 1962.While war video games began as entertainment, military organizations soon saw their potential as combat simulation and recruitment tools. A profitable and popular relationship was established between the video game industry and the military, and continues today with video game franchises like America’s Army, which was developed by the U.S.Army as a public relations and recruitment tool. This collection features all new essays that explore how modern warfare has been represented in and influenced by video games. The contributors explore the history and political economy of video games and the military-entertainment complex; present textual analyses of military-themed video games such as Metal Gear Solid; and offer reception studies of gamers, fandom, and political activism within online gaming.

Live Music Project

Live Music Project is fascinating and on-going study of the development of one suburban girl of the 80's musical tastes. Essentially, this is a near-complete list of ever pop concert I have ever attended, including the venue and (if known) the ticket price. Enjoy!