‘Games’ Archives
Badgeville wins gamification excellence award
#Badgeville wins #gamification excellence award Badgeville, The Global Gamification Leader, today announced that it has won the “Overall Greatest Impact in Gamification” award at Gamification Summit 2012′s GAwards. Badgeville was selected for the [Read More]
University of Minnesota exploring games for nurse training
#UniversityofMinnesota exploring #games for #nursetraining After years of brutalizing virtual monsters, soldiers and zombies, gamers can finally begin to make amends — at least the nurses. The University of Minnesota School of Nursing is helping to develop several [Read More]
NewsGame lets kids become reporters in a virtual world
Thomas Loudon, CEO of the Dutch startup VJ Movement, is trying it. Here’s the idea for NewsGame, a Facebook game now in development: Players take on the role of foreign correspondents and face mini-challenges within the game world, such as “you have to cross the border [Read More]
New NASA games lets you build and launch your own virtual rocket
With NASA’s Rocket Science 101, a new game designed for computers and iPad users, you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to launch a spacecraft. NASA’s Launch Services Program (LSP), based at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, provides [Read More]
New study shows smartphones have boosted use of social media and games among young people
Smartphoneshave increased the use of social media and computer games, particularly among young people, according to a recent survey. Each year, Nordicom at Gothenburg University carries out a nationally representative survey of media use among the Swedish people. The [Read More]
Pharmaceutical companies and healthcare turn to games to help sick kids
Meet Roxxi – a feisty and fully-armed virtual nanobot. Billed as “medicine’s mightiest warrior”, she’s fighting an epic battle deep inside the human body where she launches rapid-fire assaults on malignant cells. Or, if it’s not cancer [Read More]
Are games going ‘free-to-play?’
Epic, the developer behind Gears of War and the Unreal Engine, is not known for free-to-play games. But that’s probably going to change if Epic CEO, Tim Sweeney, is at all accurate in his predictions for the future of the gaming industry. “North American [Read More]
Fedex uses gamification to reward employees for sharing knowdedge and collaborating
John Dodge points to the use of a gamification program at Fedex called the “Fedex Badge”. This program is a rewards program that is defined by John as the following: The gamification program rewards and reinforces sharing through The Fedex Badge program. Ideally, it [Read More]
Zynga launches its own social games platform to expand beyond Facebook
Zynga is expanding its own social games platform to reach more players, whether it’s through Facebook, a separate Internet site or from a mobile device, the company said Tuesday. The platform – called Zynga With Friends to take advantage of one of the [Read More]
New Zynga game ‘The Ville’ lets avatars have ‘virtual sex’
Zynga the world’s leading provider of social game services, announced today at Unleashed the global launch of The Ville, the company’s most social game to date. Led by social games pioneer Mark Skaggs, The Ville gives players the chance to build the home of their dreams [Read More]
