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" Apple's chief executive Tim Cook reportedly visited the Bellevue, Washington headquarters of Valve Corporation earlier today, inciting questions about new potential for collaboration between the two companies."

"Without achieving a clear understanding of the learning domain, it is difficult to develop a successful serious game that enables users to achieve the desired learning outcomes. Thus, the first step in serious game design is to establish an understanding of the particular learning domain, usually through consultation with domain experts. Whilst game design is inherently a creative process, we believe the capturing of the knowledge domain can be systematised and we present a structured approach to knowledge elicitation and representation as a basis for serious game design. We have adapted and extended the applied cognitive task analysis (ACTA) method and have combined it with additional knowledge representation frameworks. We explain how the outputs of this approach can inform the game mechanic and the development of non-player characters, and apply it to the design of a serious game aimed at reducing time-tocompetence in soft project management skills for professionals working in corporate environments. A total of 26 domain experts from five different countries were involved in a two-stage interview process. The interviews yielded more than 300 task elements, and information about the cognition underlying the more challenging tasks. This data was incorporated into several representation frameworks and used to indicate features to be implemented in the game and the game mechanics of the supported features."

Method for generating avatar with input from the game player, patent awarded to Lyle Corporate Development

"Based on a year of research conducted by The Children's Partnership, this White Paper lays out the logic for game companies to play a leadership role on behalf of children, reviews the rich history of corporate social responsibility that has produced win-win results for the public and for businesses, and highlights early examples of such leadership by online game companies."

A crowdfunding initiative to build a new swordfighting game

A seminal article on how video games are already incorporated into many aspects of everyday technology use.

Design patent awarded to Microsoft Corporation