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Authored by Ben Nanamaker: With one of the top video game blogs dedicating this week to posts about gamers’ love affairs with guns, and with several bloggers in the past month or two also discussing violence in video games, I thought it was a good time to analyze what’s being said and how it differs from the usual take on video games and violence.

Since we recently had a young girl in the archive that had a lot of trouble finding something she wanted to play, I thought I'd devote a notable games post to showcase several of the 'girly' games that the archive offers for her age group. So be prepared to be pummeled with sugar and spice and everything nice.

Here are the top ten games played in the archive last week. We are beginning to brainstorm ideas for our Fall tournament, so feel free to post any requests here.

Here are the top ten games played in the archive last week. I don't really get the fascination with Bayonetta, but one guy likes it enough to put it on the top games list all by himself. Also, watching people play Racquet Sports is more amusing than it sounds.

Here are the top ten games played in the archive last week. Not surprisingly, FIFA stays in the lead. But Final Fantasy X? Awesome.

Our colleagues at the University of Michigan Press have released "My Life as a Night Elf Priest: An Anthropological Account of World of Warcraft" by Bonnie Nardi. Here's the blurb.

An article on the UMHS website explores how and why video games might help the new generation of medical students to excel in their preparations for becoming doctors - everything from helping them to choose their specialties to helping them learn how to perfect surgical incisions.

Here are the top ten games played in the archive last week.

Here are the top ten games played in the archive last week.

When you do a search on the University of Michigan Library's web site, you get not only results from the catalog, web site, online journal and database collections, and more, you also get a librarian who is a subject specialist related to your search term. While the matching is not perfect, it provides a human face on search results.