Running a guild or pack of players in an online game is good practise for running a real corporation – or any other leadership position. That’s the message from a report from IBM (specifically their Global Innovation Outlook). Online games, and specifically massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs), offer a glimpse at how leaders develop […]
Read more "Video Games: Training the Leaders of Tomorrow"You know Nintendo’s Wii Fit? Get in shape by waving the baton, right? There’s a balance board, too which allows you to actually practise a bunch of physical skills. And now, mental skills. You can also sit on the balance board in a lotus position and engage in Zazen metitation. Remember to keep your mind […]
Read more "Wii Fit – Now with soul excercise"You’ve heard about the Japanese whaling research expeditions in Antarctic waters. As a journalist, I naturally have no opinion about this, but there are at least three aussies who do, and they’ve just made an editorial game expressing them – Harpooned. Voila le traileur: Download and play the game for free at their website. UPDATE: […]
Read more "Harpooned – an editorial point"America’s Army must have been a success, because now NASA is getting in on the game. They’re launching a massively multiplayer online game about – what else? – space exploration. Way cool. They’ve got this idea that a vast online space simulator could be a great way to get kids interested in space exploration. They’ve […]
Read more "Games. The final frontier."Fatworld is now live . . . stay tuned to this post for reviews and commentary! (Oh, boy!)
Read more "Fatworld Now Live"The Entertainment Software Association is the pro-game lobby group in the US. Now they’re starting to play a new game: election politics. Capitalizing on its improved respectability, the video game industry intends to establish a political action committee to donate money to game-friendly politicians and candidates. “We will be writing checks to campaigns by the […]
Read more "Wealth, Power . . . Gaming."How serious do you like your games? . . . how about trauma serious? TruSim, a division of Blitz Games, is working on a learning simulator for training combat trauma medics. (Karmic opposite of America’s Army?) They’re using some pretty advanced tech for it, too. Check out their demo – complete with cool soundtrack, and […]
Read more "Serious Trauma – Now in Games"There’s a good article on Rock, Paper, Shotgun germane to what we’ve been talking about here on Meme Vector. Jim Rossignol writes: Games aren’t a waste of time. Don’t let their fun facade fool you: they’re changing us, enabling to defeat with complex problems and navigate strange spaces. They’re improving and educating the people who […]
Read more "What he said."Steve Easterbrook, boss of McDonalds UK, recently blamed video games (among others) for obesity: “I don’t know who is to blame,” Mr Easterbrook says. “The issue of obesity is complex and […] there’s a lifestyle element: there’s fewer green spaces and kids are sat home playing computer games on the TV when in the past […]
Read more "World of Fat"I saw a cool thing today. Appropriately, here’s some show and tell: What a great idea. Can’t wait to give it a go. More info and a downloadable!
Read more "Crayon Physics . . . awesome."
Philip Trippenbach 