E3 Day One of the Bombcast is especially interesting. The first half is a conversation with game developers, including Jonathan Blow (creator of Braid), and some industry folks from Microsoft. It was a fascinating peek at the industry. The second half is the normal Giant Bomb crew and is quite good as well. Highly recommend giving this one a listen.

no, no, "gamersgoodmkay" is perfect.

Book review for "Extra Lives" by Tom Bissell.  I wouldn't say that "beat Red Dead Redemption" should be on the list, but I don't disagree with adding Bioshock.

Erin Robinson's games.

Jennifer Jenson's site. Contains links to Contagion, Epidemic, and Tafelmusik.

"LAYOFF uses a simple casual game paradigm to comment on the current state of the US financial crisis. Both friends and strangers face tough times in an unstable economy. Part dark humor, mostly grim portent, in the game players play from the side of management needing to cut jobs, and match types of workers in groups in order to lay the workers off and increase workforce efficiency."

Mary Flanagan's digital games lab at Dartmouth College. 

Tracy Fullerton's project with USC's Interactive Media Division. "The prototype focuses on the constitutional crisis surrounding school integration in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957. A set of webisodes and a graphic novel provide the background story of this crisis, while the central "Debate Game" asks players to use the people, laws and values from the era to support two out of three points of the argument for or against school integration, addressing questions like "Should the federal government intervene?", "Is media coverage swaying public opinion?", and "Are civil rights woth risking a constitutional crisis?" Players can take the side of the "Forces of Change" or the "Status Quo" in debate over the constitutional issues that shaped the country."

Susana Ruiz's game design studio for "casual games for change": Darfur is Dying (genocide), Finding Zoe (gender stereotypes and abusive relationships), and In the Balance, a documentary game about the justice system in the US that uses animation and documentary footage of real prisoners. 

I recently attended the 3G Summit (The Future of Girls, Gaming and Gender) at Columbia College Chicago. The presenters were:
--Mary Flanagan, Professor of Digital Humanities at Dartmouth College
--Tracy Fullerton, former game developer and Associate Professor in the Interactive Media Division of the USC School of Cinematics Arts, and Director of the Electronic Arts Game Innovation Lab
--Jennifer Jenson, Associate Professor of Pedagogy and Technology at York University
--Erin Robinson, independent game developer
--Susana Ruiz, independent game developer and doctoral candidate at USC, and co-founder of the Take Action Games design collective

I'm going to provide links to their various projects and games.