I’m loving this story from the New York Times on Friday morning about retirees discovering video games. My mom purchased her first computer when she was 78 and I’m sure she’d be a gamer today if she was still with us. “It turns out that older users not only play video games more often than […]
Archive for March, 2007
Expressonist Painting, Existentialist Literature, New Wave Cinema and Video Games
Published March 23rd, 2007 in Culture and Uncategorized. 0 CommentsParis, March 21st (Wired). “First there were the 19th-century impressionist painters. Then came the existentialists and Le Nouvelle Vague filmmakers. Now, 21st-century video-gamemakers represent the latest artistic genre deemed worthy of state patronage and support, the French government says. Earlier this month, French Culture Minister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres inducted three game designers into the […]
MMOG’s Worth More Than $1 Billion…
Published March 21st, 2007 in Culture, Marketing and Uncategorized. 0 CommentsAs reported on Rafat Ali’s PaidContent this morning: “A report by Screen Digest has found that massively multiplayer online games generated more than $1 billion in 2006 in the West (North America and Europe), notes the BBC. The report claims 87 percent of the revenue is from subscriptions, while virtual item sales and in-game advertising […]
Multi Touch Screen - Next Gen User Interface
Published March 19th, 2007 in Emerging Technologies, Uncategorized and User Experience. 1 CommentI’ve blogged on this before but it stays top-of-mind mind which tells me it’s worth paying attention to. The website at Perceptive Pixel, founded last year by Jeff Han, is only a single screen but it’s a company worth keeping an eye on. You can see more of Jeff’s work on the MultiTochScren.com blog. The […]
Google Earth - US Census Mashup
Published March 16th, 2007 in Educational Technologies, Marketing, Uncategorized and Web 2.0 & Beyond. 0 CommentsWhat if you could project US Census data on a 3D map of the country? That’s what you get in this Google Earth mashup from Imran Haque, a PhD comp-sci student at Stanford. “gCensus is an effort to make geographic data freely and easily accessible to the public, without the need for expensive GIS software […]
Game Studies - Life After GDC
Published March 16th, 2007 in Culture, Serious Games, Uncategorized and User Experience. 0 CommentsGDC was great but after a week on the road, three cities and four time changes I’m only beginning to get back in the blogging groove. I’ll re-start by introducing Game Studies, “a crossdisciplinary journal dedicated to games research, web-published several times a year at www.gamestudies.org” that I learned about at the conference in […]
Serious Resources
Published March 2nd, 2007 in Educational Technologies, Serious Games and Uncategorized. 0 CommentsWhile I was researching Serious Game Engine Shootout I began to accumulate a number of excellent reports, white papers and academic studies on MMOGs and how people — kids in particular — behave in virtual worlds. There’s no way I could use them in the article so I’ve posted several of these, including a whitepaper […]
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