National Geographic Expedition Week game sponsored by artifact sales
I saw the tweet about click through and take pictures and NG would mail you artifacts if you played their game Mission Expedition | Expedition Week- National Geographic Channel. But I didn’t think they’d be real, actual artifacts. And then I saw the sponsor banner link for Ancient Resource. Ancient Resource is the name [...]
The Art of Sierra – A visual history of Sierra’s Adventure games | Game Culture
The Art of Sierra – A visual history of Sierra’s Adventure games | Game Culture.
Fight Club: Is screen culture damaging our children’s brains? – Times Online
Fight Club: Is screen culture damaging our children’s brains? – Times Online.
IBM Releases CityOne, A “Serious Game,” For Urban Planners, Civic Leaders And Executives
The idea of gaming for more than a high score and bragging rights has been around for some time. The U.S. military used flight simulators and Mission Rehearsal Exercise video games in training programs as early as 2001. More recently, scientists at the University of Washington began using a game called FoldIt to solve problems [...]
The 15 Most Offensive Video Games Ever Made – PCWorld
The 15 Most Offensive Video Games Ever Made – PCWorld.
Video game centre installed on Calgary campus
“Video games are just another media format for conveying information, whether it’s narrative information, or story, or another way to express visual effects, or AI or computer programming,” said U of C librarian Jerremie Clyde, who is overseeing the collection’s production. According to Clyde, games have educational value. His research interests include video games as [...]
Zynga CTO: We turn on 1,000 new servers a week for FarmVille and other games | VentureBeat
The social-gaming juggernaut, responsible for some of the most popular social games on Facebook like FarmVille and Mafia Wars, is responsible for handling a deluge of traffic from the roughly 10 percent of the world’s Internet population who play its games. Zynga can add up to 1,000 new servers each week and has begun expanding [...]
In-Game Ads Work! (Maybe)
Finally! After in-game ads have been around in some form for around 30 years, there’s finally a study that links them to an increase in product purchase. Nielsen recently worked with EA and Gatorade to look into how much exposure to in-game ads would increase product sales. The result? 24% increase in purchases and an [...]