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#HangoutsonAir: The New School's Mashup Culture class with guest speakers Chris Burke & Tamara Yadao. Guest speakers Chris Burke & Tamara Yadao mash up filmmaking, music and video game technologies. Chris & Tamara did a tutorial demonstrating how they use sound objects in the video game LittleBigPlanet to create immersive electroacoustic spaces that can be "played." Google Hangout on Air: 7 April 2013.

lessons games can teach us about engagement and about learning itself

OverClocked ReMix is an organization dedicated to the appreciation and promotion of video game music as an art form. OverClocked ReMix released its 32nd arrangement album, Unsung Heroes. It features fifteen tracks from fourteen artists, arranging songs from video games that have been widely overlooked, but are well-loved by those who have discovered them.

Good article on game technologies that facilitate embodied learning strategies, which connect movement to concepts. 

Interesting competition: Liberated Pixel Cup is a two-part competition: make a bunch of awesome free culture licensed artwork, and program a bunch of free software games that use it. 

Game of Thrones X Arrested Development

Great analysis of learning elements using WoW as a framework.

interactive mashup you tube video game. Kinda bomb.

I love the idea that these types of videos another level interaction on youtube.

This is great. I've seen this sort of thing all over the internet: people taking what was supposed to be a more or less passive watching device and making it interactive. I feel like this imperative to get people involved is what's going to be driving new developments in web technology.