American Business Embraces ‘Gamification’
Gaming is big business — and vice versa: Play to win: The game-based economy Companies are realizing that “gamification” —…
Game Design and Higher Education
Above: Laurentius de Voltolina meets Pac-man Students who may have been scolded by their parents for spending too much time…
Why Making a Blockbuster Game Is a Poor Goal
Slashdot recently posted On Why Making a Blockbuster Game Is a Poor Goal. From the comments: What I take away…
Videogame Tax Breaks
This is interesting news: tax breaks for the videogame industry: The government has finally recognised the importance of the games…
Talent Agents and the Game Industry
“Talent Agents a New Force in the Video Game Industry” — The New York Times It happened to the motion…
Gameshastra opens 1000-seat game design studio
Gaming is big business — bigger than movies, worldwide. Item, this recent business news: Gameshastra opens 1000-seat facility in Hyderabad…
Interview with Jackson Pope of Reiver Games
Over at A Year of Frugal Gaming, board game designer Jackson Pope of Reiver Games talks about quitting his job…
Colin Northway on Game Design
At the Austin Indie Summit, game designer Colin Northway — author of the remarkable Fantastic Contraption — outlined several key…
Computer Space
Now this is a beautiful thing: Computer Space, the world’s first commercially-sold coin-operated video game. Recently for sale on Ebay!…
Like PBS, but with more headshots
“One of the areas that I am super interested in right now is how we can do financing from the…