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To see how far we've come, look at this game that we used to play on our computers from about 15-20 years a go. I LOVED this game! Look at how human machine communications has evolved as have games evolved.

Great website using Geocaching and ARG's.

We talked about Alternate Reality and a wealth of gaming tonight on Wow2 (a show the gaming as pedagogical platform group is going to need to listen to.) This is an online ARG (alternate reality game) for educators and uses Geocaching -- we're planning an upcoming show on geocaching on Wow2 -- if you know of any educators doing great work, let me know.

Rock 'n' roll bad boys Motley Crue will become the first group to release a new single through Rock Band, the developer of the wildly popular game.

First rock band to release a single through the gaming industry. Video games may be a new source of revenue for the music industry. Rock Band allows gamers to play along to songs with controllers shaped like a guitar, drum set or microphone

Article about using games in the classroom to teach.

Very nice article about using Games in the Classroom from Todd Bryant. (Hat tip to Jo McLeay's plurk about this one.)

This is a great example of how entertainment is changing and things are being mashed up.

This is an example of a mashup --this is a massive game of rock-paper-scissors played using flickr (for the pictures of the "throw), twitter (for taunting) and some sort of database (for the game itself.)

Could be a spark of an idea for a multi-media artifact?

Just who will be buying it? Many expect that our mom's will be buying them.