NetFamilyNews.orgIn “Reading, Writing & Videogames,” parent and New York Times features editor Pamela Paul seems to be arguing that digital games are just that – games – they should just be fun. They don’t need to be educational, and they don’t really belong in classrooms. The first part of her argument makes perfect sense – [...]
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s tribute to Sean Smith – dad, online gamer, and Benghazi-based State Department computer expert – was “nothing compared to the memorials that were offered up by many of the 400,000 paying subscribers” of the space fantasy game EVE Online,” Tri-CityHerald.com reports. It said the memorials “flooded social media and gaming [...]
Anybody who grew up with or knows somebody who grew up with Disney’s Lilo & Stitch film and cartoons knows “ohana” means “family” in Hawaiian, but also something more. The creators of Ohanarama are going for that spirit of multi-generational togetherness with their just-launched gaming service, which is now an app on Facebook and a [...]
Of online game designer/researcher Jane McGonigal’s dream: using games to solve real-world problems (and, I’d add, to teach citizenship and social activism and to reverse the disconnect between learning and school
Is Sony’s Free Realms, now in beta testing, a virtual world or a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG)? The latter is what Sony calls it, but I think it’s both. Available online through a Web browser, the free version is more virtual world (with eight environments to choose from) which includes mini games in [...]
With “MMOGs,” I’m referring to massively multiplayer online games, and the “battle” that’s shaping up is between 10 million-member World of Warcraft and just-launched Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. USATODAY says the newcomer might “siphon off” some of WoW’s success, but there’s probably room – if not in players’ schedules, then – in the huge [...]
There’s hearts, checkers, chess, Texas hold ‘em, Dolphin Olympics, a form of Scrabble, and on and on. Which – if you’re a game aficionado – can make the social Web a 24/7 party (it can also give young gamers 24/7 access to communities of players of all ages, but more on that in a moment). [...]
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