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Serious Games Let High School Students Experience Workings Of Co…
FUTURE-MAKING SERIOUS GAMES | October 10th 2008 by Eliane Alhadeff
Serious Games educating students about Congress Via: Center On Congress – Virtual Congress, An Online Role–Play Simulation for Middle and High School StudentsTo give students an insider's view of representative democracy and help them understan read more
Serious Games Accelerate Hiring & Training Of Air Traffic Control…
SERIOUS GAMES PORTAL | October 10th 2008 by Eliane Alhadeff
Serious Games as electronic tower simulatorsStudents and instructors using air traffic control simulator at the Federal Aviation Administration headquarters in Oklahoma City. The simulator guides trainees through airplane departure and arrival sequen read more
Deploy Client and Network Help Get In The (Serious) Game Faster
FUTURE-MAKING SERIOUS GAMES | October 9th 2008 by Eliane Alhadeff
A new distribution system for more efficient SG download Press ReleasePragmatic Solutions and U.S. Army Announce New America's Army Distribution System Westlake Village, Calif., and Silver Spring, MD October 9, 2008 - Pragmatic Solutions, Inc. and th read more
IIPI: Serious Games For Highly Mobile Environments
FUTURE-MAKING SERIOUS GAMES | October 9th 2008 by Eliane Alhadeff
Serious Games providing mobile solutions for challenging work environmentsVia: Information In Place, Inc.Information in Place Inc. (IIPI) focuses on developing learning solutions, capturing expert knowledge and delivery of information in highly mobil read more
U.N. Grant Funds Game to Prevent 3rd World Abuse of Women
GamePolitics | October 9th 2008
The United Nations Population Fund has awarded Champlain College's Emergent Media Center a $600,000 grant to develop an interactive game aimed at preventing violence against women in developing nations. The target audience fo read more
G4LI: Research Alliance To Evaluate Serious Games For Learning
SERIOUS GAMES PORTAL | October 9th 2008 by Eliane Alhadeff
Serious Games challenging us to play a better educationVia: Microsof Corp Press Release Microsoft Research, NYU and Consortium of University Partners Create First Scientific-Based Game Research Alliance to Transform LearningGames for Learning Institu read more
Heifer Village Nepal: Serious Games Showing Solutions To World Hu…
SERIOUS GAMES PORTAL | October 9th 2008 by Eliane Alhadeff
Heifer's Serious Game For Change Via: ForgeFX - Case StudiesHeifer International, Beaconfire, and ForgeFX have collaborated to build a Serious Game that teaches players about poverty and hunger, and they would love to hear your suggestions about how read more
Unity iPhone Publishing: Serious Games For A Revolutionary Device
SERIOUS GAMES PORTAL | October 9th 2008 by Eliane Alhadeff
A new vehicle for Serious GamesVia: Unity - Unity iPhone Publishing Will Hit The Streets On October 22, 2008In two prior posts, IPhone: A New Vehicle for Serious Games and iPhone SDK: Potential For Serious Games Large Scale Distribution, I had alread read more
Serious Games Connect Royal Netherlands Navy With NextGen Recruit…
SERIOUS GAMES PORTAL | October 9th 2008 by Eliane Alhadeff
Serious Games as a 3D simulation of life aboard operational warshipsVia: Incredible Sims - Royal Netherlands Navy 3D SimulatorPress ReleaseIncredible Sims has been selected to develop a PC game for the Royal Netherlands Navy.Wishing to connect with t read more
Serious Games Accelerate Hiring & Training Of Air Traffic Control…
FUTURE-MAKING SERIOUS GAMES | October 9th 2008 by Eliane Alhadeff
Serious Games as electronic tower simulatorsStudents and instructors using air traffic control simulator at the Federal Aviation Administration headquarters in Oklahoma City. The simulator guides trainees through airplane departure and arrival sequen read more
G4LI: Research Alliance To Evaluate Serious Games For Learning
FUTURE-MAKING SERIOUS GAMES | October 9th 2008 by Eliane Alhadeff
Serious Games challenging us to play a better educationVia: Microsof Corp Press Release Microsoft Research, NYU and Consortium of University Partners Create First Scientific-Based Game Research Alliance to Transform LearningGames for Learning Institu read more
Heifer to Launch Serious Game
Mission to Learn | October 8th 2008 by Jeff Cobb
In an article I wrote recently for WE magazine, Play for Change, I used one of my favorite nonprofits, Heifer International, to help illustrate how serious games might create a higher level of engagement with an organization than some of the more typ read more
Do Games Level the Playing Field?
Mission to Learn | October 7th 2008 by Jeff Cobb
Two recent bits of news about the use of computer games in primary education are of a variety either to make you applaud or make you cringe, depending on your views about games and education. I tend more towards the applaud camp, as other postings ab read more
Heifer Village Nepal: Serious Games Showing Solutions To World Hu…
FUTURE-MAKING SERIOUS GAMES | October 7th 2008 by Eliane Alhadeff
Heifer's Serious Game For Change Via: ForgeFX - Case StudiesHeifer International, Beaconfire, and ForgeFX have collaborated to build a Serious Game that teaches players about poverty and hunger, and they would love to hear your suggestions about how read more
Unity iPhone Publishing: Serious Games For A Revolutionary Device
FUTURE-MAKING SERIOUS GAMES | October 6th 2008 by Eliane Alhadeff
A new vehicle for Serious GamesVia: Unity - Unity iPhone Publishing Will Hit The Streets On October 22, 2008In two prior posts, IPhone: A New Vehicle for Serious Games and iPhone SDK: Potential For Serious Games Large Scale Distribution, I had alread read more
Video Games Better Than Life?
Mission to Learn | October 6th 2008 by Jeff Cobb
Today the TED blog posted the video below featuring David Perry, a game developer, speaking in 2006. Perry’s talk, like nearly all TED talks, is interesting, but what is perhaps most interesting about this particular presentation is that it c read more
Campaign Rush: New Ian Bogost Game Debuts at CNN
GamePolitics | October 6th 2008
Georgia Tech Prof. Ian Bogost has launched a new election-oriented game.Campaign Rush debuted at CNN late last week and Bogost writes of the new offering at Water Cooler Games:My studio Persuasive Games developed a new game that CNN In read more
New ARG Traces Of Hope: Serious Games Reunite Ugandan Families
SERIOUS GAMES PORTAL | October 5th 2008 by Eliane Alhadeff
British Red Cross launches cutting-edge family search gameVia: British Red Cross - Red Cross using ARG to draw attention to the plight of civilians who get separated from loved ones during warIt could be a phone call, it could be an email, but it's f read more
Serious Games Help Flatten Out School Hierarchy
SERIOUS GAMES PORTAL | October 5th 2008 by Eliane Alhadeff
Serious Games are in the domain of the learner as opposed to the domain of the schoolVia: BBC NEWS - Computer Game Boosts Maths ScoresIn my prior post Serious Games School Project to be Extended Across Scotland, dated March 2008, I anticipated that L read more
Virtual Worlds Prove That Life Is Too Real
Dusan Writer's Metaverse | October 2nd 2008
There’s a certain logic to this, or maybe it’s just a reminder, one of those “everything I needed to know I learned in Kindergarten” kind of things: games are fun, life is boring, if only life was more like a game. And there&# read more
Serious Games Connect Royal Netherlands Navy With NextGen Recruit…
FUTURE-MAKING SERIOUS GAMES | October 2nd 2008 by Eliane Alhadeff
Serious Games as a 3D simulation of life aboard operational warships Via: Incredible Sims - Royal Netherlands Navy 3D SimulatorPress ReleaseIncredible Sims has been selected to develop a PC game for the Royal Netherlands Navy. Wishing to connect wit read more
Teenage Gaming Improves civic engagement: PEW Study
Dusan Writer's Metaverse | October 1st 2008
Virtual World News recently reported on the PEW/Internet & American Life Project survey that reported that almost all teens play video games and around 10% visit virtual worlds. Even as telling, though, was the finding that gaming improves the c read more
US Treasury Teaches Teens to Manage Credit
Dusan Writer's Metaverse | October 1st 2008
I’m going to slip out of the metaverse for a minute and play a game. And in it, you’re in a deep dark hotel and you’re up to your neck in debt and by visiting this house of horror you can learn to manage credit better. The develope read more
Serious Games Allowing Us To Experience Every Web Page In 3D
FUTURE-MAKING SERIOUS GAMES | October 1st 2008 by Eliane Alhadeff
ExitReality turns standard 2D web pages into unique 3D spacesVia: ExitReality Launches Public BetaIn my prior post Serious Gaming With Immersive Views Across The Web, I had already addressed ExitReality’s promise to transform the social networking read more
Game Studies Area, 2009 PCA/ACA National Conference
Internet: Marketing and Messages | October 1st 2008 by stefan
2009 PCA/ACA National Conference The Game Studies area of the Popular Culture Association and the American Culture Association National Conference (formerly the Digital Games area) invites proposals for papers and panels on games and game studies fo read more
British Red Cross Launches Alternate Reality Game
Mission to Learn | September 29th 2008 by Jeff Cobb
The British Red Cross has launched Traces of Hope, an online alternate reality game (ARG) situated in the midst of the Uganda civil war. The game, according to the Red Cross press release, “combines storytelling, detective work, technology and read more
US Army Invests In Serious Games For Telepathic Communication
SERIOUS GAMES PORTAL | September 28th 2008 by Eliane Alhadeff
Serious Games harnessing brain waves for secure communicationVia: Physorg.com - Scientists to Study Synthetic TelepathyA team of UC Irvine scientists has been awarded a $4 million grant from the U.S. Army Research Office to study the neuroscientific read more
New ARG Traces Of Hope: Serious Games Reunite Ugandan Families
FUTURE-MAKING SERIOUS GAMES | September 27th 2008 by Eliane Alhadeff
British Red Cross launches cutting-edge family search gameVia: British Red Cross - Red Cross using ARG to draw attention to the plight of civilians who get separated from loved ones during warIt could be a phone call, it could be an email, but it's f read more
Serious Games Help Flatten Out School Hierarchy
FUTURE-MAKING SERIOUS GAMES | September 25th 2008 by Eliane Alhadeff
Serious Games are in the domain of the learner as opposed to the domain of the schoolVia: BBC NEWS - Computer Game Boosts Maths ScoresIn my prior post Serious Games School Project to be Extended Across Scotland, dated March 2008, I anticipated that L read more
Babel Digital Rebranded To Ideonic Expands Serious Games Portfoli…
SERIOUS GAMES PORTAL | September 25th 2008 by Eliane Alhadeff
An ideas-driven Serious Games studioVia: Babel Digital News - Bye Bye Babel, Hello IdeonicFUTURE-MAKING SERIOUS GAMES has recently unveiled information about one of Babel Digital’s project at Serious Games Cutivate GuānXi For Successful Business i read more
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