During today’s Games For Change festival, Ernest Moniz, the former U.S. Secretary of Energy, debuted a new mobile strategy game about preventing nuclear war. Called Hair Trigger, it promises a crash course in nuclear de-escalation. Perhaps the president should try it out.
Media Molecule’s PlayStation 4 game-creation tool Dreams was named Game of the Year at tonight’s Games for Change…
Alaska is far. And cold. But, there are beautiful stories there. Like many remote places, it's home to a rich…
Even in video game terms, this week has been chock full of zombie news. Sony and Microsoft, the dueling juggernauts…
Papers, Please scored two big wins last night at the 2014 Games for Change festival's awards ceremony, taking home the top prize in the "Best Gameplay" and "Most Innovative Game" categories. The 2013 indie game that casts players as an immigration inspector also won the grand prize at the 16th annual Independent Games… Read more
I owe a lot to Final Fantasy X.
They could have put their money into more traditional businesses, like a funeral home or a dry cleaner or real…
If you listen closely to those who advocate for games as a worthwhile medium, you can sense the hope that games…
If you've played games like Team Fortress 2 or the Portal titles, you know that Valve loves making players learn.…
Homophobia and bigotry may run rampant on Xbox Live, but game designer Robert Yang is optimistic about the present…
The usually-optimistic game designer Jane McGonigal has been thinking about whether those of us who love to play…
As a game maker and the co-president of Games for Change, I was thrilled to be invited by Kotaku to discuss some of…
During his talk at the Games for Change festival today, Valve chief Gabe Newell mentioned that the company has begun…
Former vice president Al Gore addresses the Games for Change summit today, kicking off three days of discussion…
A recent video game contest asks the question "can you design a game about Teen Dating Violence without using…
America may not be headed toward a future of citizens tracked with implanted chips, pacified by drugs and tightly…
The Joan Ganz Clooney Center at Sesame Workshop released a study today that names video games as an untapped federal…
EA can't have all the fun turning great books into video games. Tracy Fullerton wants to turn Henry David Thoreau's…
An Online Journalism Blog article says that traditional news outlets need to start making video games that either…
Brazil's Mother Gaia Studios is the winner of Microsoft's Imagine Cup, a competition that challenged students from…
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