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White House Launches Apps for Healthy Kids Development Contest
by Danny Cowan
[03.11.10]
At this week's Game Developers Conference, White House Office of Science & Technology Policy analyst Kumar Garg announced the Apps for Healthy Kids game development challenge promoting healthy lifestyle changes in young adults.
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Gates Foundation Funds Handheld Games Promoting Middle School Literacy
by Danny Cowan
[03.09.10]
The New York-based Education Development Center has received a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation supporting the development of handheld games designed to improve reading comprehension among middle school students.
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Your (Brief) Guide To GDC 2010 Live, Full Coverage To Follow
by Staff
[03.08.10]
Looking for a Game Developers Conference mini-guide? Gamasutra offers up "Your (Brief) Guide to GDC 2010", which lists some of the most exciting talks in both the main conference program and the summits.
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Games for Change Festival 2010 Opens Registration
by Danny Cowan
[03.01.10]
Registration has opened for the seventh annual Games for Change Festival, an upcoming New York City event exploring the design, funding, and cultural impact of social issue games.
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National Institutes of Health Fund $3.9M HIV Awareness Game
by Danny Cowan
[02.25.10]
NICHD, a division of the National Institutes of Health, is giving Yale School of Medicine assistant professor Lynn Fiellin $3.9 million to develop a game to promote HIV awareness among young children.
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ESL Startup Moonshoot Raises $6.6M, Hires Kalinske as Executive Chairman
by Danny Cowan
[02.18.10]
English language learning game company Moonshoot announced that it has raised $6.6 million in venture backed financing, and has appointed former Sega of America CEO Tom Kalinske as executive chairman.
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Sci-Tech Firm Buys Forterra's OLIVE Platform For Virtual Training
by Eric Caoili
[02.01.10]
Science and technology firm SAIC has purchased ailing virtual world company Forterra's On-Line Interactive Virtual Environment (OLIVE) product line, including all names, trademarks, and licenses.
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Humana Announces InsertCoin Fitness Game Winners
by Danny Cowan
[12.21.09]
Humana's Games for Health team has selected the winners of InsertCoin, a game idea competition encouraging the development of interactive experiences that promote healthy lifestyles.
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Xaitment Supports Parkinson's Research-Funding Zombie Game Experiment
by Danny Cowan
[12.03.09]
Artificial intelligence service provider xaitment announced that its AI game tools will be used in the creation of The Zombie Game Experiment, a charity-driven game development project benefiting Parkinson's research.
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American Council on Exercise Charts 'Underwhelming' Wii Fit Health Benefits
by Danny Cowan
[11.10.09]
The American Council on Exercise has released a study that tested the effectiveness of Wii Fit, finding that Nintendo's exercise tool and balance trainer achieved "underwhelming results" in exercise intensity.
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RWJ Foundation Awards $1.85 Million for Health Games Research
by Danny Cowan
[11.05.09]
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has awarded more than $1.85 million in grants dedicated to researching video games that promote physical activity, encourage disease prevention, and result in positive changes in player health.
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IPKeys Selects Gamebryo LightSpeed Dev Platform for Counter-IED Sim
by Danny Cowan
[10.07.09]
Information security company IPKeys has chosen Emergent's Gamebryo LightSpeed game engine and development platform to create simulations that will train members of the U.S. armed forces to identify homemade explosive devices.
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ESA: Record Number of U.S. Universities Offer Game Design Courses
by Danny Cowan
[10.01.09]
The Entertainment Software Association has found that 254 colleges and universities in the U.S. are offering courses and degrees in video game development -- a significant increase attributed to gaming's growing prominence in business and in education.
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Upcoming PC, XNA-Based Game Explores Iranian Election Riots
by Danny Cowan
[09.22.09]
Games industry veteran Borut Pfeifer has announced the development of The Unconcerned, an upcoming PC and Xbox 360 downloadable game focused on the protests and riots that followed the controversial Iranian presidential election in June of this year.
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Research: 'Prosocial' Games Have Strong Correlation With Good Behavior
by Kris Graft
[06.18.09]
Past research has claimed a relationship between violent video games and bad behavior -- but research published this week finds a correlation between nonviolent "prosocial" games and positive behavior.
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GameCareerGuide: Game Design And Architecture
by Staff
[06.16.09]
Can the processes of game design and play be applied to the design of real-world architecture? That's the question Masters student Chris Totten asks in this write-up of his thesis work -- with the help of Valve Software.
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Interview: Sawyer Talks Games For Health Event And The Road Ahead
by Leigh Alexander
[06.16.09]
The fifth annual Games For Health conference was the event's biggest year yet, and Gamasutra talks to organizer Ben Sawyer about the biggest takeaways in the arena where video games meet health care.
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Civil Rights Group Sues Troy, New York Over Exhibition
by Christian Nutt
[06.12.09]
In a story that shows the complexities in the blurring of the line between games and art, The New York Civil Liberties Union has filed a federal lawsuit due to the closure of an exhibition that featured artist Wafaa Bilal's game Virtual Jihadi.
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Interview: Hopelab, Virtual Heroes Talk New Re-Mission Game For Cancer Patients
by Staff
[06.11.09]
Gamasutra talks to Hopelab and Virtual Heroes about their just-announced partnership to create a new, updated version of Re-Mission, a game created to inspire and encourage kids suffering from cancer.
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Winners Announced in 2009 Life.Love. Game Design Contest
by Danny Cowan
[06.11.09]
The Jennifer Ann Crecente Memorial Group has announced the winners of the 2009 Life.Love. Game Design Contest, a competition to raise awareness of teen dating violence through interactive media.
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