Tag: Games/Gaming
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Games, Games, Games
Gaming is certainly starting to become a factor when people are thinking about education. Serious games as a resource are starting to poke into the vocabulary of admins and there are conferences (like GLS in July put on by UW – Madison that also has a gaming minor in it’s education program). But this morning,…
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Sony’s Sour Grapes – Wii and PS2 kick’n
Eventually, time, economy of scale and a lack of legacy support may be what Sony needs to outdo it’s own success with PS2 (GN). Maybe the PS2 is an impulse buy like Sony thinks (GN) the Wii is. To my own mind, the PS3, even though it’s looking amazing, it’s really the same games that…
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Spore on DS
GU posted that Spore is coming for the DS (GN) – which to me makes it an amazing coup for COTS type people… just think about how many of those DS are out there… but at the same time… a game as addictive as Spore is really going to get people… forget kids… game locked.
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Gaming Librarian wanted – Deadline Feb 16th
I was alerted to this position (formal) this morning at a meeting. The posting closes in a couple of days. I think it would be something cool (from this orignal post): Â Robert Gagne … in 1965 he published something called The Conditions of Learning. In it created a nine step process. This process has…
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VGL – Video Games Live
Well, I just got back from the concert and it certainly was a blast. A few quick comments the SquareEnix music didn’t have any of the effect of the others, because without a connection to the game, the music meant nothing. Even if you’d never played some of the games (for those like my wife)…