Wired Magazine has published a game about the business of Somali pirating. The game, called Cutthroat Capitalism, accompanies an article published in Wired, An Economic Analysis of the Somali Pirate Business Model. Here's a description: You are a...

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RIT professor Stephen Jacobs is the editor-in-chief of a new journal, The Computer Game Education Review. Here's the blurb he sent me on the publication: CGER will be a peer-reviewed academic publication addressing issues that concern the teaching...

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Insurance company Liberty Mutual has created Driver Seat, which they bill as "the world's first senior driving simulator." The game strives to recreate the perceptual and reaction limitations of drivers aged 65, 75, or 85 through four...

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A bit late, I suppose, but I wanted to post my notes from the Documentary Games panel at last month's Games for Change festival. These are rough notes, but they should be sufficient to give you a gist of the sessions. You can find them after the...

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Humana's games for health division has announced a new contest, Insert Coin for game concepts that meet the broad goal of to "get people to be more physically active, or motivate them to make healthy decisions." Entries are open from June..

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