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Science Game Lab to be a central hub for scientists and gamers

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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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, or making it more engaging through game-like competitions. It will also help centralize efforts to use crowdsourcing to enable science projects that benefit from mass collaboration.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.