Tesseract Center Wins International Award for Civil Rights History Game The Tesseract Center for Immersive Environments and Game Design at the U of A won Silver in the Higher Education category for their entry in the 2021 International Serious Play Awards competition, which honors outstanding games … [Read more...]

Simcoach Games Announces the Inaugural Game Design and Production Apprenticeship Simcoach Games launches its first apprenticeship program to prepare young adults for careers requiring problem-solving, creativity and digital skills Simcoach founder Jess Trybus and new Simcoach leadership to … [Read more...]

Stunning Video Game Technology Brings Churchill’s Story to Life Didcot-based Rebellion Film Studios has produced an extraordinary video to accompany the launch of the new Churchill exhibition at Blenheim Palace, which opened earlier this month. ‘Churchill at Blenheim’ was filmed with a range of … [Read more...]

Good Vibrations: Using a Driving Simulator for NVH Development Driver-in-the-Loop (DIL) simulators are an important point of integration for different engineering departments. One of the most recent departments to join the DIL party is noise, vibration and harshness (NVH), in the quest to conduct … [Read more...]

20 Best Turn-Based Strategy Games of All Time Though real-time strategy games are newer and arguably have had a more notable explosive rise in popularity, turn-based games still remain the more prolific and varied sub-genre in comparison. There is an inherent allure to the tension found in … [Read more...]

Curiosity: The Digital Q & As #innovationsland In the tenth live conversation in the series “Curiosity: the digital Q & As” of the Federal Ministry for Education and Research, c’t editor-in-chief Dr. Jürgen Rink with Prof. Linda Kruse about how you can impart knowledge with the help of … [Read more...]

Video Games get Serious About Climate Change From Sims Eco Lifestyle to Minecraft Climate City, environmental issues are becoming a popular theme in video games. But can the industry deliver on its own green message? Dressed in a futuristic wetsuit that enables her to stay submerged for hours, … [Read more...]

ArtScience Museum Presents the Global Premiere of Virtual Realms: Videogames Transformed Co-curated by celebrated videogame designer Tetsuya Mizuguchi, this multi-sensorial exhibition re-imagines videogames as a 21st century artform SINGAPORE - Videogames take centre stage at ArtScience … [Read more...]

Designing a Better Patient Experience Innovation Lab How can game design help improve the cancer patient experience? The National Cancer Institute (NCI) invites game developers to apply for the Designing a Better Patient Experience Innovation Lab to be held August 2-6, 2021. If you’re … [Read more...]

Remaking Oregon Trail Video Game With An Eye Toward More Accurate Native American Depictions Listen https://cpa.ds.npr.org/northwestnews/audio/2021/05/WEB_OregonTrailNewGame_AK_051121.mp3 A new spin on the wagon train game focuses on more accurately representing Native Americans. The … [Read more...]

Campfire Raises $8 Million to Advance AR/VR for Product Design Campfire has raised $8 million in funding for its holographic technology that enables both augmented reality and virtual reality for the purpose of enterprise product design. In stealth until now, Campfire has created a holographic … [Read more...]

Shrouded Citadel Interview: Discover the Secrets Behind the AR Adventure Epic What does a 40 year old Dungeons & Dragons-style RPG and a modern day AR adventure game have in common? Well, a rather surprising amount as we discovered during our interview with Shrouded Citadel’s creator, Robert … [Read more...]

The Carnegie Rule of Game Design: 6 Ways to Make Things Interesting Dale Carnegie wrote How to Win Friends and Influence People back in 1936, and I've heard jokes about it for my entire life. The book gets thrown around as a cliché because it serves as a useful way to communicate. (If it wasn’t … [Read more...]

Virtual Reality at Your Fingertips When a person taps with their fingers, each finger generates a different vibration profile propagating to the wrist through bones. ETH Zurich researchers have now leveraged this discovery in the development of a dual-sensor wristband that brings intuitive … [Read more...]

For years now, some of the best, wildest, most moving or revealing stories we've been telling ourselves have come not from books, movies or TV, but from video games. So we're running an occasional series, Reading The Game, in which we take a look at some of these games from a literary … [Read more...]

With a Massive Spike in Virtual Reality Training, Immerse Expands US Operations UK-based company adds new key hires as U.S. organizations better prepare workers to excel Training via virtual reality has become a serious business these days, especially for UK-based Immerse, a top enterprise VR … [Read more...]

Researchers Unleash Potential of Desktop PCs to Run Simulations of Mammals' Brains University of Sussex academics have established a method of turbocharging desktop PCs to give them the same capability as supercomputers worth tens of millions of pounds. Dr. James Knight and Prof Thomas Nowotny … [Read more...]

Mixed Reality: An Experience Of An Alternative Universe The ability to connect with both physical and virtual environments provides a vast range of possible applications for mixed reality technologies. Mixed Reality (MR) is the utilization of innovations of Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented … [Read more...]

Get a Lifetime Membership in the School of Game Design It is now possible for anyone to learn how to design an Indie game, and The School of Game Design is now offering a lifetime membership. During a time in the world's history when entertainment is not just an industry, but a supporting force … [Read more...]