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Games

Pokémon Breeding and the Masuda Method

August 29, 2010 Games

The depths of Pokémon gamer knowledge are beyond my reach. My kids, on the other hand, have gone deep and are using the internet to expand their learning further. I helped connect their Nintendo DS to Wifi so they can explore virtual worlds. Now they are connecting with other players around the world to trade [...]

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Monetizing Games

March 9, 2010 Games

Practical advice on game design from Disney Imagineer and Carnegie Mellon Professor, Jesse Schell in this recent talk at DICE 2010 conference.

It’s all about tapping into the desire to level up.

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Spin the Bottle 2.0

November 10, 2008 Games

Jan Chipchase is a research anthropologist at Nokia who travels the world and studies how people interact with technology. His blog (future perfect) is a fascinating stream of one off thoughts and observations which twist your mine to look at the everyday world around us with a new sense of wonder.
In the photo above he [...]

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Werewolves infect Webmasters

December 6, 2007 Events

Werewolf (also known as Mafia) is a great parlor game in which players try and figure out the good guys from the bad guys relying on your ability to read the body language of other players to determine who is telling the truth and who is lying while keeping your role and identity hidden from [...]

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Ethan Haas? 1-18-08? Let the scavenger hunt begin!

July 10, 2007 Games

I’m a total sucker for this kind of stuff. Can anyone tell me what this is about? Scott Beale posts a note that says it has nothing to do with JJ Abrams mysterious new trailer for 1-18-08 – this is going to be fun!

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Lumos Labs – brush away the cobwebs of your mind

March 9, 2007 Games

Lumos Labs is a new site which, through a series of simple online games, excercise your brain. The site’s games are “scientifically proven to improve your attention, memory and processing speed.” Like doing situps for your mind, the site sends you through a series of short games that are fun, engaging and beautifully designed. Scores [...]

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Reuters opens up bureau in Second Life. Can taxation be far behind?

October 18, 2006 Commerce

The 200 year old news service which transmitted its first dispatches via homing pigeons has opened up a news bureau in the virtual world of Linden Labs’ Second Life.
Adam Pasick, who goes by “Adam Reuters” in Second Life is the wire services sole correspondent, editor, and bureau chief.
Being a financial news service, reporting is focused [...]

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1K Project

September 4, 2006 Games

The 1K Project overlays 1,000 replays from the PC game Trackmania and composites them into a single video. A lesson in automotive physics and combustion driven liquid dynamics. No one knows who made this video or where it came from.

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answers.yahoo.com is a first person shoot ‘em up

July 26, 2006 Games

Danny Sullivan takes a look at the growth of answers.yahoo.com and compares it to other successful social media properties.  
If it were a computer game, Wikipedia would be a strategy game in which you take a long view to win a campaign or goal. Yahoo Answers is a first-person shoot-’em-up. Questions appear, and as soon [...]

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Spore

May 12, 2006 Games

OMG! I’ve been hearing all about this game as the next greatest thing but until you see it, you can’t really appreciate just how cool it is. Joystiq has links to videos from E3 that show the game in action and it looks amazing.
Joystiq Video, Wired Spore Event 

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