Have you ever written a thesis before? Maybe during your undergrad?
You should really be doing some academic research, ideally through your university's library's website. Search both 'video games' and 'literature' - see what research is currently predominate in the field, what 'future research' they suggest, - you know, compose a bibliography and go see your thesis supervisor (if you have one currently).
Agree with Supes,
While I believe websites can be used as non-official references (depending on the academic writing standard), the quality and credibility of your thesis/article/essay etc. will depend on the references you collect. Alot of times, your institution's Library will have both physical and digital mediums of articles. For your current idea, I really do think that the digital medium will be the way to go in order to find the most recent articles that themselves will have a references section that you can draw from.
As far as idea, there's alot of good ones listed here, and it all depends on the relationship you'd like to make between literature and gaming.
For instance, if this were me, I would probably write about the influence of past events on video games (i.e. world wars, political climates, economy fluxes etc.). In contrast, you can write about how fictional novelizations of the past have found some legging in some of today's rpg games (i.e. mythologies, fantasy novels, etc); note that this is a specific example and might be hard to find references on, but it's an idea to draw from anyway.
Hope that helps somewhat!
- hiro
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