Serious Games

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• Saving the world is serious fun all over again

  
  NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org blogs — Authority: 129
  Dr. Adrienne Burk convened an amazing conference last month on behalf of the Institute for the Humanities at Simon Fraser University, and I was lucky enough to get a chance to speak on one of the panels. The conference was called Witnessing the World: New Possibilities for Citizenship and Social Change, and while it ...
  3 days ago

• Writing for Video Game Genres Book Review

  
  Writers Cabal Blog — Authority: 92
  If you haven’t yet picked up the IGDA Writers SIG book Writing for Video Game Genres and want to know the full scoop, check out this recent book review from Slashdot.Here are some other editorial comments:A must-have for the bookshelf of any game writer, no matter what genre they’re working in. It was equally ...
  5 days ago

• Video Games & Wii

  
  video game reviews — Authority: 147
  Video game is an electronic game that interacts with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device. The electronic system in which the video game is played is called as platforms; personal computers and video game consoles are some of the examples. These range from large computers to small handheld ...
  6 days ago

• thechineseroom [del.icio.us]

  
  Imran Ali — Authority: 133
  experiments in first person gaming
  1 week ago

• SPAA 2009 Reaching Your Audience – LAMPicks

  
  AFTRS LAMP — Authority: 100
  Australia’s leading screen conference, run by  SPAA , is in Sydney this week and many multi-platform folk associated with LAMP & AFTRS in the past are in force with a record number of panels and sessions. The heavily featured 360 Media (and by implication Social Media) track sits nicely in the theme of this ...
  1 week ago

• Truth Be Told

  
  virtualpolitik — Authority: 470
  Since I happen to know that the U.S. government has created military videogames about washing hands to avoid dysentery, this doesnt seem so unlikely to me. Games about learning common nouns and verbs in Arabic, negotiating with the locals, and spotting IEDs in monotonous landscapes are already in the field. Thanks ...
  2 weeks ago

• New Review of Lit on Games for Health & PE

  
  Educational Games Research — Authority: 100
  Marina Papastergiou, over at University of Thessaly in Greece, has a nice review of the literature this month in Computers & Education . Here’s the key portion of her abstract that is most intriguing: The overviewed articles suggest that electronic games present many potential benefits as educational tools ...
  2 weeks ago

• Invitation to SharpBrains Summit – Technology for Cognitive Health and Performance

  
  SharpBrains — Authority: 455
  We are excited to invite you to the first virtual, global SharpBrains Summit (January 18-20th, 2010). The SharpBrains Summit will feature a “dream team” of over 25 speakers who are leaders in industry and research from 7 countries, to discuss emerging research, tools and best practices for cognitive health ...
  2 weeks ago

• AFTRSTalks – LAMP Seminars Now Up on Vimeo

  
  AFTRS LAMP — Authority: 100
  It is always hard to decide on a good video sharing network for longer format material as YouTube &  many others have time and quality limitations. LAMP has put up its videos via iTunes store since 2005 as well as running a JWPlayer on it’s own virtual server. So we also just started an AFTRSTalks channel ...
  3 weeks ago

• Digital Cowboys: Episode 128

  
  Platform Nation — Authority: 514
  This week we welcome to the show; James Portnow – CCO of Divide By Zero games and accredited game designer. We’re talking about the words ‘Game’ and ‘Gamer’ after an article on Gamasutra by Tynan Syslvester prompted us to ascertain if new words and descriptions could be used for them in the face of an ...
  4 weeks ago

• CNN on how games are healthy

  
  Raph's Website — Authority: 117
  Are video games good for your health? – CNN.com . It’s one of those slideshow dealies. Among the anecdotes: Playing games can cure “lazy eye” better than an eye patch Training with Wii Fit and Wii Sports improved balance in Parkinson’s patients Always nice to see more of these studies…
  4 weeks ago

• VW educators in the UK, look here

  
  Raph's Website — Authority: 117
  Virtual World Watch has  a request for information up — they want to hear from you about how you use virtual worlds in UK higher and further education. The question How are you using virtual worlds (e.g. Second Life, OpenSim, Metaplace, OLIVE, Active Worlds, Playstation Home, Blue Mars, Twinity, Wonderland) in ...
  4 weeks ago

• NHS endorses Nintendo Wii Fit video game

  
  Positive Technology Journal — Authority: 107
  The Daily Telegraph reports that the Nintendo Wii Fit Plus , which goes on sale this Friday, got the permission to use the NHS’s Change4Life logo in its advertising on television and in shops. From next year, it is possible that the logo will be used on the product itself, an unprecedented partnership between a ...
  4 weeks ago

• Mastering Multi Platform Content

  
  AFTRS LAMP — Authority: 100
  Australians now spend an average of 16.1 hours on the internet each week, 12.9 hours watching TV, 8.8 hours listening to the radio, 3.7 hours on a mobile phone and 2.8 hours reading newspapers according to The Nielsen Online Internet and Technology Report quoted in  The Australian earlier this year. With internet ...
  4 weeks ago

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