Got Game?

http://www.stagecast.com/index.html
Stagecast: make your own video games, share them with friends, make and explore simulations, learn thinking skills. (Demos, Games, Simulations, Educators, etc.) ex: explore Tom Sawyer (G7-9), Explore Coin Flip (G5-12), Explore Diffusion (G 6-9), Explore Flower Garden (G3-8), etc.)
Stagecast educators: http://www.stagecast.com.school.html (demos, lesson plans, Quicktime testimonies, Tutorials, Standards...)

http://nwn.bioware.com/builders
Neverwinter nights for builders: the Aurora Neverwinter Toolset allows users to create their own content in the form of modules and environments for use in their own games.

http://lejos.sourceforge.net
LeJOS (Sourceforge Java Lego) -Java for LEGO Mindstorms- yes, you can program a Lego robot with Java! (LeJOS download free)

http://www.zoesis.com/corporate/n-index.html
Zoesis Studios "the future of interactive advertising and entertainment". Zoesis believes a new medium is emerging, based on a deep mixing of artificial intelligence, robotics, character animation, and drama, which is yielding a potent form of art, entertainment, and education."

http://py-universe.sourceforge.net/
Python Universe Builder: a set of Python modules for writing text-based adventure games or interactive fiction.

The International Journal of Computer Game Research, Game Studies (htp://gamestudies.org/0601)
Sims, BattleBots, Cellular Automata, God and Go, a conversation with Will Wright by Celia Pearce (http://gamestudies.org/0102/pearce)
Game analysis: Developing a methodological toolkit for the qualitative study of games, by Mia Consalvo & Nathan Dutton (http://gamestudies.org/0601/articles/consalvo_dutton)
Learning to Play or Playing to Learn -A critical account of the models of communication informing educational research on computer gameplay, by Hans Christian Arnseth (http://gamestudies.org/0601/articles.arnseth)