Just got news that our ongoing project In The Balance will be part of SXSW 2010 Interactive Festival . It’s great news, as the festival is so incredibly competitive, with just tons of amazing interactive + music + cinema ideas and folks marking this venue. Take Action Game’s Ashley York will represent the project as part of the “Interactive Documentaries: [...]

President Obama unveiled today “Educate to Innovate” – a major new education campaign designed to improve science and technology education in the U.S. – and a signature feature of the initiative is the Digital Media and Learning Competition supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, in collaboration with the University of California, Duke University [...]

From the IT University Copenhagen and the Nordic Game Jam comes the Dark Room Sex Game… the download worked perfectly for me with the Wiimotes. It’s pretty effective, i think, and funny… and the in-game graphics are superb!

“RePlay: Finding Zoe” – an online casual game we developed in partnership with Canadian advocacy organization METRAC (Metropolitan Action Committee on Violence Against Women and Children) has been selected a finalist for an Adobe 2009 MAX Award , in the Social Responsibility category. The game addresses gender stereotyping and violence against women and girls, and seeks to bring awareness to [...]

Once again, I post this NPR story by Laura Sydell for which I was interviewed a little late and for personal archiving reasons. Thanks Erin for posting about this.

As I haven’t yet gotten around to blogging more concretely about Games for Change 2009 nor about Documentary Games… I’m thankful Ian Bogost has posted his notes from the panel.

Please excuse tardiness and redundancy of this entry, but decided to post it for personal archiving reasons, as I realize now that I never did.

NPR interview “Online Game Peers into Life in Darfur Refugee Camp,” by Michele Norris

a very interesting read i just came across with many relevant thoughts to today’s design discipline… a little disheartening (while remaining inspirational) considering these are J. Baldwin’s words from 1991 and the situation/s he described might not be better today: “When the environment protests by exhibiting intolerable degradation, the principal malefactors customarily dodge responsibility. Their [...]

The Games For Change 2009 Festival was great and enlightening this year, as it has been for its past 5 years. Full program here. A nice write-up about our “Documentary Games” panel here, from the Center for Social Media’ s blog. Also, check back with the G4C site shortly for videos of great panels and keynotes (NYTimes Nicholas Kristof and [...]

A very interesting op-ed in today’s New York Times , by Mark C. Taylor. Taylor explains that the 18th century model of mass-production university education we inherited (from Kant) “has led to separation where there ought to be collaboration and to ever-increasing specialization.” He proposes six major steps to a complete restructuring of American higher education… 1.. The [...]