Video game 'addiction' and troubled children: exploring the relationship.
An interesting twist on a game: this is a Firefox toolbar extension that adds to your web surfing experience by showing you hidden treasure, traps, and links left by fellow players. Their tagline is "Play the web"... it will be interesting to see if this catches on!
"New York's Institute of Play has officially announced the foundation of Quest to Learn, a new school for "digital kids" that will be accepting its first 6th grade class this fall, which "uses the underlying design principles of games to create highly immersive, game-like learning experiences for students." "
"Research to be published online January 16 in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin shows that, contrary to popular belief, violence does not make video games more enjoyable."
Review of an interesting site that features children's stories, with the option to listen, download them to your ipod, or record your own story.
The military is using a mix of live action video and video games to try and reduce soldier suicide, and to help train leaders to make tough decisions under pressure. Two interesting things: they used video rather than animation to increase realism, and in this game there no necessarily "right" answers - every action has consequences.
The army has found that having burn victims play a 3D virtual reality snowball game has significantly eased their pain.
New book (one of the authors is over at Sloan) describing how businesses are beginning to realize and use the power of games for training and motivation.
It's a puzzle game for the Mac, Wii and PC where you build structures that behave differently depending on weather, the properties of the materials used, and the different forces that act on them. These are the dry topics covered in my (hated) high school physics class, but are presented here in an inituitive and scaffolded way... in a bizarre Tim Burton-esque universe.
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