>I love this one, not game related, but just funny!
>I love this one, not game related, but just funny!
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Erik Huis over Second Life from Bas van de Haterd on Vimeo.
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Live means many things nowadays and is often misunderstood. By live we mean people getting together to play against each other at a venue, not on line.
Next week ‘Living it – Loving it’ launches Britain’s first live gaming league which will take place in pubs, clubs and casinos. They will have a FIFA 2010, NEED FOR SPEED and CALL OF DUTY league. Played in a league format over twelve weeks, there will be venue-, regional- and national champions with a prize pool of at least £30,000.
This project has been put together with the support of many major brands and will have over 1.000 venues within a year. If you want to join in then watch out in the coming weeks for details on www.playthegamer.com
They are keen to reconnect the community in which people live and believe that gaming has the ability to do this. It is my belief however that gaming will also quickly become a profession (if not already for the happy few) and that a more established circuit will emerge once the industry recognises the value to its brand and sales.
Largely copied from the press release on Linkedin by Dave Brannan, Managing Director at Living it Loving it Ltd
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Worldfamous gamer ‘Grubby’ had to sneak out a building to avoid getting harassed by gamers! Amazing! (South-Korea)
>In this presentation from David Perry (Earthworm Jim and Matrix-game).
The data (units sold of World of Warcraft for instance) are somewhat outdated in this presentation from 2008, but it contains two great videos. One about gamedevelopment in the past 30 years and a videobiography of a gamer.
>Great presentation by Jane McGonigal
Playing games strengthens trust and social structure of communities (collogues and friends)
Herodotus invented playing games to distract people from existing famine and even stopped a war deviding the country in two, playing a dice game for the win and it is ‘proven’ I hope that the Jews and Palestine’s do the same in Jeruzalem and in all the other world-conflicts!
Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world | Video on TED.com
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More people playing FarmVille than there are Twitter accounts!?
“The iPhone is a Swiss army knife. Converged technology only works in pocket size… that’s why the i-Pad sucks!” According to Schell…
And what about the new Ford that contains a minigame. The less gas you use, the bigger the virtual tree on your display grows… Games are everywhere! – Video down below.
Check out this interactive thriller about the future of our politics around energy. It’s a nice conspiracy story – if you have all Sunday (and enough interest in the future of the world’s existence 😉
It’s quite intriguing and technically well done! There are some mini-games you can play, but as with most of these ‘interactive films’ the mini-games do not add great value to the experience and are not all that relevant – unfortunately.
Submarine must have gotten a decent budget to build this – it looks amazing, behaves really well and the sounds design is great.
Check www.collapsus.com you really should!