His work has focused on the production of video games and the use of games by other cultural industries. He is currently completing a book on the global video game industry for the British Film Institute and has published articles on economic history of the SimCity franchise and on the interplay between Hollywood and the video game industry. He also serves as one of the editors of the international, online journal Eludamos: Journal for Computer Game Culture. He reviewed Half-Real: Video Games between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds for RCCS. <rnichols@niagara.edu>