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| Oct 25, 2022 | A Serious Look at Game-Based Learning | “I've always thought games were good models for everything—how to learn, but also how to be,” says Arana Shapiro.
She has dedicated much of her career to helping educators integrate technology with purpose into their curriculum. Now the Man... |
| Mar 15, 2022 | Google Play is helping developers meet gamers where they are | Google Play is setting the stage for a big year of growth in mobile and cross-platform gaming, with several new initiatives to help and encourage developers to build even more exciting and engaging gaming experiences.
Contents Building grea... |
| Jul 28, 2021 | Mark Barlet, Founder Of AbleGamers, Recieves ‘Games For Change’ Vanguard Award 2021 | Mark Barlet, founder of AbleGamers Able Gamer |
| Jul 16, 2021 | The DeanBeat: The State Department’s gaming man wants more citizen diplomats | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Josh Shen is one of the only people in the federal government whose job has a lot to do with video games. He’s a foreign service office... |
| Jul 16, 2021 | The DeanBeat: The State Department’s gaming man wants more citizen diplomats | Join gaming leaders, alongside GamesBeat and Facebook Gaming, for their 2nd Annual GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit | GamesBeat: Into the Metaverse 2 this upcoming January 25-27, 2022. Learn more about the event.
Josh Shen is one of t... |
| Jun 3, 2021 | How Mark Barlet created a movement with AbleGamers | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Mark Barlet has 25 years of hands-on experience in the tech and assistive technology field. An injured veteran who left the Air Force i... |
| Jun 3, 2021 | How Mark Barlet created a movement with AbleGamers | Join gaming leaders, alongside GamesBeat and Facebook Gaming, for their 2nd Annual GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit | GamesBeat: Into the Metaverse 2 this upcoming January 25-27, 2022. Learn more about the event.
Mark Barlet has 25 ye... |
| Mar 11, 2021 | COVID-19: Time to take ‘serious’ games seriously | As COVID-19 has raged, people across the world tackled, grappled and battled with social disconnection in different ways. While the international COVID police and media added the term “social distancing” to our daily vocabulary with the int... |
| Oct 22, 2020 | New ‘XR For Social Impact’ White Paper Surveys Use Cases For Immersive Technologies In Education, Healthcare, And Training | Games For Change releases its "XR For Social Impact" white paper at Unity for the Humanity Summit ... [+] todayEmbodied Labs, Inc. |
| Jun 18, 2020 | Games for Change unveils sessions on mental health, diversity, and COVID-19 | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Games for Change is responding to the times and launching programming at its upcoming event that will tackle subjects such as offering ... |
| Jun 18, 2020 | Games for Change unveils sessions on mental health, diversity, and COVID-19 | Games for Change is responding to the times and launching programming at its upcoming event that will tackle subjects such as offering mental health for gamers and game developers, coping with COVID-19, making games more accessible, and fig... |
| May 7, 2020 | Games for Change will go virtual with trailblazing speakers July 14 to July 16 | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Games For Change, the game conference and festival that promotes the power of games for social impact, announced it is opening registra... |
| May 7, 2020 | Games for Change will go virtual with trailblazing speakers July 14 to July 16 | Games For Change, the game conference and festival that promotes the power of games for social impact, announced it is opening registration for its event taking place virtually July 14 to July 16.
For the first time, registration will be fr... |
| Jun 14, 2019 | Games for Change: How to make the game industry more diverse, accessible, and meaningful | The 16th annual Games for Change Festival gets underway on Monday, and the main event focuses on the social and educational impact of games on modern society.
The 15-year-old show draws more than 1,200 people a year to New York for panels a... |
| Jun 14, 2019 | Games for Change: How to make the game industry more diverse, accessible, and meaningful | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The 16th annual Games for Change Festival gets underway on Monday, and the main event focuses on the social and educational impact of g... |
| Mar 20, 2019 | New Accelerator Aims For Social Change With AR, VR, Gaming Startups | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Games for Change, a non-profit that promotes the use of games and immersive technology for social good, is taking applications from startup teams for a new accelerator program... |
| Feb 4, 2019 | Game-Based Learning Is Changing How We Teach. Here's Why. | Dan White, the co-founder and CEO of Filament Games, an educational video game developer based in Madison, WI, knows from personal experience that kids can get a lot more out of video games than entertainment, sharpened reflexes and enviabl... |
| Aug 11, 2017 | Project Axon is a VR game that shows how fake news spreads | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
If you’ve been online, you’ve seen fake news. A team of graduate students from Carnegie Mellon University created a virtual reality gam... |
| Dec 5, 2016 | Former White House games adviser joins board of Games for Change | Games for Change, a nonprofit group advocating video games for social impact, has announced three new board members, including Mark DeLoura, a former senior adviser at the White House. Other new appointees include Alan Lewis, a vice preside... |
| Dec 5, 2016 | Former White House games adviser joins board of Games for Change | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Games for Change, a nonprofit group advocating video games for social impact, has announced three new board members, including Mark DeL... |
| Jun 28, 2016 | Natalie Kyriacou – founding director of MyGreenWorld | This is part of a series of interviews with members of the Foundation for Young Australians Young Social Pioneers program which supports Australia’s best and brightest emerging social entrepreneurs and innovators, aged 18-29. The program am... |
| Jun 21, 2016 | Science Game Lab to be a central hub for scientists and gamers | Scripps Research is partnering with game studio Playmatics to create a Science Game Lab portal for games that will support citizen science.
The portal’s aim is to get people excited about science through games and gamification of science, o... |
| Mar 1, 2016 | Games for Change and American Express launch game to save our national parks | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Nonprofit group Games for Change and American Express have teamed up to create Save the Park, a mobile game that encourages people to v... |
| Mar 1, 2016 | Games for Change and American Express launch game to save our national parks | Nonprofit group Games for Change and American Express have teamed up to create Save the Park, a mobile game that encourages people to volunteer in national parks.
The free title debuts on iOS today, and it’s one more example of how do-goode... |
| Dec 14, 2015 | Why the Government Is All About Fun, Games and Funding Games | They’re from the government, and they’re here to play.
Last Tuesday, buttoned-down government officials, including the outgoing Director of the Office of Educational Technology, joined a potpourri of parents, kids, developers and gaming ent... |
| Dec 9, 2015 | Grading the 2010 National Education Technology Plan | My, how times have changed. Mostly.
The first National Education Technology Plan was published in 1996, when Netscape ruled the web browser market, Apple was an afterthought, and America Online barraged our mailboxes with silvery streams of... |
| Jun 21, 2015 | Video Game Industry Gives Education a Reboot at E3 2015 | If games are fun, and learning should be fun, then the logic of association would suggest that games and learning ought to go hand in hand.
But the video game industry remains cautious about getting involved with education, scarred by memor... |
| Apr 28, 2015 | Us Dept of Ed.'s Games for Learning Summit Seeks to Raise the Quality of Learning Games | “The way to create great games is to start with the assumption that the subject area is awesome,” said Lauri Järvilehto, Rovio’s “Fun Learning Expert” during an intimate STEM panel on his company’s collaboration with NASA on “Angry Birds Sp... |
| Mar 28, 2015 | Social-good gaming will only reach its potential when women do too | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Gaming isn’t just for entertainment anymore. It can make us smarter. It can make us safer. It can make us better citizens of the world.... |
| Mar 28, 2015 | Social-good gaming will only reach its potential when women do too | Gaming isn’t just for entertainment anymore. It can make us smarter. It can make us safer. It can make us better citizens of the world.
“Can” is the operative word here. For over a decade, video games have been hailed as tools for strengthe... |
| Mar 13, 2014 | This game teaches players to make microcredit loans to the poor (exclusive) | Micmali is running with the idea of saving the world through video games. The company launched a Kickstarter campaign today to raise funding for a mobile game called World Agent BRAC that will teach people how to make loans for the poor in ... |
| Mar 13, 2014 | This game teaches players to make microcredit loans to the poor (exclusive) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Micmali is running with the idea of saving the world through video games. The company launched a Kickstarter campaign today to raise fu... |
| Dec 2, 2013 | Grants awarded to young people making games that address social change | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The video game industry’s lobbying group and a nonprofit are giving away grants to 20 minority teens and adults who are creating games ... |
| Jun 18, 2013 | Games for the Classroom Get A Serious Makeover | Under the hustle and bustle of Midtown Manhattan gathered a gaggle of game enthusiasts for the 10th Games for Change Festival. This bonanza of roughly 800 developers, designers, educators, researchers showed off the projects that spanned th... |
| Mar 22, 2013 | Apple Yanks ‘Sweatshop’ Game From The App Store. Oh, The Irony | Apple has yanked the controversial game SweatshopHD from its App Store — a move rife with irony given Apple’s own long association with questionable labor practices in China.
Apple actually pulled Sweatshop last month, although the news jus... |
| Feb 18, 2013 | Half the Sky Facebook game to create awareness about sex slave trafficking | Pulitzer-Prize-winning authors Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn announced today that they’ll launch the latest installment of the Half the Sky Movement web-based Facebook game on March 4.
The title is an adventure game targeted at making ... |
| Feb 18, 2013 | Half the Sky Facebook game to create awareness about sex slave trafficking | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Pulitzer-Prize-winning authors Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn announced today that they’ll launch the latest installment of the Hal... |
| Oct 20, 2012 | Is Your Game Crowd-Ready? | Editor’s note: Tadhg Kelly is a game designer with 20 years experience. He is the creator of leading game design blog What Games Are, and consults for many companies on issues of design and development. You can follow him on Twitter here.
A... |
| Jul 16, 2012 | Can Zynga Go From Schoolyard Bully to Class Angel by Backing a Charitable Facebook Game? | This dude wants some butterbeer. (Photo: insideipo.com)
It appears that Zynga, the evil mastermind behind FarmVille and Mafia Wars, is not completely hell-bent on destroying the world. The online game producer turned super villain announced... |
| Jul 16, 2012 | Zynga designers help Pulitzer Prize winners create social charity game | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Zynga announced today that it’s lending out its game developers to help create a social charity game on Facebook.
Production has alread... |
| Jul 16, 2012 | Zynga designers help Pulitzer Prize winners create social charity game | Zynga announced today that it’s lending out its game developers to help create a social charity game on Facebook.
Production has already begun on a “social action” game based on Half the Sky, a best-selling book by Pulitzer Prize winners Ni... |
| Jun 18, 2012 | Best Tech Events This Week (Venture Forward, AngelHack, Tech Drinkup, Games for Change, NJ Tech Meetup, S.H.E. Summit) | This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), founder and CEO of GarysGuide and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last count, over 40 red ties. You can reach him at gary [at] garysgu... |
| Apr 3, 2012 | Game designers and Rockefeller Foundation attack poverty with fun | Video games aren’t all about depicting violence. They can change the world for the better too.
The Institute for the Future and the Rockefeller Foundation have created an online game dubbed Catalysts for Change that helps people brainstorm ... |
| Apr 3, 2012 | Game designers and Rockefeller Foundation attack poverty with fun | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Video games aren’t all about depicting violence. They can change the world for the better too.
The Institute for the Future and the Roc... |
| Nov 29, 2011 | Sojo Studios’ WeTopia social game lets players do good in the real world | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Sojo Studios is announcing its first online social game, WeTopia, which is designed to be part of a series of games where players can h... |
| Nov 29, 2011 | Sojo Studios’ WeTopia social game lets players do good in the real world | Sojo Studios is announcing its first online social game, WeTopia, which is designed to be part of a series of games where players can have fun while doing good in the real world by raising money for children’s charities.
WeTopia is a free-t... |
