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I'm Serious.net
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Serious thoughts about serious games, immersive learning, and game-based learning and productivity
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Psst! Serious gamers - Can you keep a secret?
This is a really big day for me, and I hope for serious games in general. Today, I'm going to let you in on a secret, but I have to ask you to keep quiet about it. Pinky promise? We......
Entrepreneurial Retirement
I'm having an increasingly difficult time defining two words that one hears a lot lately, what with the "new economy" and all. More and more of us mid-career (the new euphemism for "middle aged") folks are trying to figure out......
GDC: Not a Banner Year for Serious Games Summit
I've been trying to put into words the flat feeling I was left with after the Serious Games Summit. Perhaps it's the word "summit" that generates expectations too lofty to be achieved. I had dreams of heated conversation about the......
Women and (Serious) Games
One of the few general sessions I was able to attend at last week's GDC focused on the lack of women in games, both on the player and the creator sides of the equation. As the panelists were speaking about......
Just Announced: IBM's Virtual Service Management Simulator
IBM announced today their new Virtual Service Management Simulator. The game is an immersive 3D learning game which, according to IBM, is "based in a realistic virtual organization where players learn how service management and IT Infrastructure Libr...
GDC: Game of the Day (Tuesday)
Several months ago, I drew readers' attention to what promised to be a "game-changing" game called Spore. Today, I heard Margaret Robertson offer a critical review of the game. It was a great presentation, and Margaret's insights offer valuable lesso...

