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Tag: Games/Gaming

  • Gaming invades High Culture

    I got an email from the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra telling me about Video Games Live, a concert that will feature music from: MARIO ZELDA® HALO® METAL GEAR SOLID® WARCRAFT® MYST® FINAL FANTASY® KINGDOM HEARTS They are also going to have the score from the Halo3 trailer as well. I’m just tickled at the whole idea…

  • More COTS research

    This is stolen from Silversprite and the GU Gamesblog who dug up two interesting articles. The first is one that I found yesterday as well when I was chatting with my niece in England over MSN looking for any games that UNICEF might have available to help people understand it’s work (like Food Force). The…

  • To move GBL we must critque GBL

    Thanks to Tony Forster for this paper. The big point for me is the one about being interdisciplinary. Games, like stories are not confined to just one “class”. I was talking this morning with a EDIT prof and saying that Digital Storytelling is taking off pretty good at the university, and hopefully some of the…

  • No Vibe, no love for the PS3

    It seems that I’m not alone in thinking that the lack of a vibration feature is going to be a real deal breaker in the next gen console race. The big three were all sued by a smaller company (Anascape) who claimed patent/copyright infingement and it seems that Sony, by going wireless perhaps admitted wrongdoing…

  • Multitasking

    The Washington Post published an article today about how there is a cost associated with multitasking, this supports many other studies (Psychological Science, Association for Psychological Science via Science Daily) have already said. But this brings me to wonder about game based learning and multiple encoding. Yes, there is a cost to mutitasking, but obviously…