Video games: The skills from zapping ’em | The Economist
The non-gaming volunteers were put through 50 hours of video-game training. For some this involved playing fast-action shoot-’em-up games such as “Call of Duty 2” and “Unreal Tournament”, but others were given a slow-moving life-strategy game, “The Sims 2”. The researchers found that those trained with action games raised their performance to the level of [...]
Book Excerpt: Can Videogames Be Journalism? – Niraj Chokshi – Technology – The Atlantic
In Newsgames: Journalism at Play, which will be published this October, Dr. Bogost and his fellow authors elaborate on that idea — that videogames can and have been used to deliver news and distill complicated topics for readers. “Games allow us to address systems instead of stories,” Dr. Bogost said in an interview. And, in [...]
YouTube – Wii-DS.nl TV – Super Mario 25th Anniversary / Birthday – The History!
YouTube – Wii-DS.nl TV – Super Mario 25th Anniversary / Birthday – The History!.
Games Dominate America’s Growing Appetite for Mobile Apps | Nielsen Wire
Games Dominate America’s Growing Appetite for Mobile Apps | Nielsen Wire.
Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world | Video on TED.com
Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world | Video on TED.com.
From Pong to Red Dead Redemption : The New Yorker
this blog post at the new yorker links off to several earlier articles about games in context and analysis of culture and current events: Back Issues: From Pong to Red Dead Redemption : The New Yorker. it is an added value post to accompany this recent piece by nicholson baker where he, as an established [...]
FarmVille, other online social games mean big business, and bonding
More than 200 million people play social games every month, and the numbers grow by the thousands every day. “Whereas the 19th century will be remembered for the creation of the modern novel, and the 20th century was dominated by movies and images on screens, I think we can now see that games will be [...]
Disney Buys Playdom in $763 Million Deal – NYTimes.com
As social games becomes a more crowded and difficult field — several hundred new games are introduced on Facebook weekly and most go nowhere — brands that can be used as the basis for titles are becoming more important. via Disney Buys Playdom in $763 Million Deal – NYTimes.com.