Becker Video Game Design

Announcement of a $500,000 grant to MassDiGi from Dept. of Commerce's Economic Development Administration University Center

"a video game developed at the University of Utah to help children with cancer during their treatment." Results of making connection between medical devices used to encourage healing and video game technology.

Athens, Ga. - A team of University of Georgia researchers has been awarded a $500,000 small business grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to develop interactive educational software aimed at teaching high school students how the five senses work in the context of the brain and how neurons work.IS3D LLC, a partnership founded in 2010 by eight UGA faculty and staff members, will develop the software with input from high school teachers and students in Atlanta and northeast Georgia.IS3D will design a game based on the five senses, along with a series of interactive case studies that will allow students to explore how neurons work. The software will be tested in classrooms to gauge their effectiveness in helping students learn and whether they improve the students' engagement in science curriculum

A student in Kingston University in the UK designs a video game console "examining the possibility of transporting the enjoyment and skills of electronic gaming into the more mundane world of practical electronic devices," according to his professor.

The Guildhall hosts graduate studies in game developement and design as well as professional certificates and indie game developing events. Open House happening in October

Collaboration between gamers and scientists solves retrovirus enzyme structure, attributed to spatial reasoning inaccessible to computers alone, using game Fold-It, reported in NMSB

Becker Journal recap of the MassDiGi panel on 9/15/11

CCP Games partners with the fashion industry to design virtual fashion environments and avatars and recently hired a fashion consultant to design outfits for one its games

video game created by Pippin Barr, Center for Computer Game Research at IT University of Copenhagen in Denmark of an exhibit hosted at MOMA

2012 Challenge announced, entries open in Nov. 2011, The Middle School Stream aims to motivate and engage middle school students (grades 5 through 8) in STEM learning, 21st Century Literacy Skills and Systems Thinking by challenging them to design original video games. The High School Stream aims to motivate and engage high school students (grades 9 through 12) in STEM learning, 21st Century Literacy Skills and Systems Thinking by challenging them to design original video games. The Collegiate Stream challenges emerging game developers at the graduate and undergraduate levels to design video games for children (grades pre-K through 8) that teach key STEM concepts and foster an interest in STEM subject areas. The Educator Stream challenges educators to design video games for children (grades pre-K through 12) that teach key STEM concepts and foster an interest in STEM subject areas.

Amy Jo Kim from Shuffle Brain speaks at the Web 2.0 conference

A UTA economics professor explains how companies like Electronic Arts lobbied for and benefit from federal government assistance.

Collaboration between RIT and ST John Fisher College to help young peole with self control skills through video game playing

Jane McGonigal used a game to help her heal from a traumatic brain injury and now makes it available to help others confront various physical ailments, in partnership with Zappos

"In the game, the player acts out the role of a conservator, conservation scientist or collection manager by virtually interacting with objects, materials and data embedded in quest narratives. Within the game, players will be allowed to manage a library and protect it from the elements that accelerate deterioration. Another quest will allow players to take samples from ancient artifacts and analyze them to discover the secrets of its past."

a site created to offset female representation in action video games which depicts women fighters in outfits "in which they'd be easily killed"

A bibliography from a wiki on gamification also includes books related to gaming behavior, psychology and design