The first issue of The Gamer's Quarter -- a magazine that seeks to subject video games to the same sort of critical analysis/wankery that literature gets -- is available online as a PDF. Table of contents here.

(Via Slashdot, which says in part, "Included are fourteen lengthy articles, each with a unique perspective; one piece looks at the cultural meaning of Katamari Damacy, while another piece speaks of the writer's gradual acceptance of death as a learning tool." I don't know about all that, but I do know I've been trying to get Ezra to buy Katamari Damacy forever. It's universally beloved.)