Gamification has the power to fight diseases — and exploit workers
At an Amazon fulfillment warehouse tucked away in small-town America, an employee whiles away the slow-ticking hours of his daily grind by building castles....
Anti-Trump election game comes from MoveOn.org and game scholar Jane McGonigal
Video game designer Jane McGonigal and political group MoveOn.org have teamed up to create a video game, SwingVoter Go, aimed at defeating Donald Trump...
Sexism is alive and well in the game industry, #1reasonwhy tweets show us (Update)
Women in the gaming world are expressing through Tweets why there are so few females in the industry.
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...
The DeanBeat: Video games can be about love, not just violence
For decades, the dominant theme in video games has been violence. That’s not surprising, since violent competitions have been dominant in culture for thousands...
The DeanBeat: The top 12 trends from the GDC
Too often, I flit from one conference to another like a wayward butterfly, trying to catch up with all the news. But the Game...
The DeanBeat column: Stopping to think about the culture of bloodlust
Welcome to the front lines of gaming. I’ve been covering the game industry on a day-to-day basis for about 15 years, mainly by immersing...