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Tag: Games/Gaming

  • Lord of the MMORPGs

    This is a post that I’ve been wanting to write for a while, and if you look at it’s number, you’ll see that it has been a while since I got the idea and even with that said, I’ve been wanting to write so much about it that I’ve forgotten the original ideas, but I…

  • Gamemaker

    Why am I posting on my blog holiday? Well it’s not for any other reason than there have been small amounts of dead time in front of the screen – anyway – so I spotted Gamemaker last night in my zombie mode inspired hunt for some cheezy way to make an intro for my speech…

  • Games are boring?

    Well it seems that one of the trueisms about the gaming industry is that good games get a sequel and great games get sequelled to bits. This pattern is potentially killing the gaming industry according to EA big cheese John Riccitiello. In a WSJ interview he said that people are getting bored with sequels and…

  • Why Game

    A couple weeks ago at the CeC, Chris Melissinos – Sun Microsystems’ CTO of Web 2.0 and Chief Gaming Officer and a self-proclaimed video game addict – gave quite the keynote and while I dutifully took notes in a linear fashion and while, I would have normally provided those notes straight, with a week having…

  • Engagement and Motivation

    Mark over at edtechlife is working on his dissertation and he’s made part of his lit review available.  I think he’s certainly on the right track with what he’s saying (I’ve linked to pt2) in terms of engagement and motivation.