How video games can address climate change Posted byby Dean Takahashi May 12, 2019 2 min 65% of Americans play video games. So what better way to educate people about an issue like climate change than a video game. That... Continue Reading 2 min
GamesBeat Summit 2019: Talks on refugees, peace, climate change, and accessibility Posted byby Dean Takahashi April 10, 2019 4 min For 22 of his 24 years of life, Lual Mayen lived in a refugee camp in northern Uganda. His parents fled from South Sudan... Continue Reading 4 min
The Big Eco Game community event: Watch us save the planet Posted byby Jeff Grubb January 18, 2019 2 min On January 23, a meteor will appear in the sky. Just 30 days later, it will impact the surface of the planet. Unless we... Continue Reading 2 min
Eco: We stopped the meteor, but we couldn’t stop ourselves Posted byby Jeff Grubb April 3, 2018 7 min Over the last month, I spent most of my time playing an “educational” game called Eco. Strange Loop Games has launched Eco in Early... Continue Reading 7 min
GamesBeat Decides 74: No robot mayors Posted byby Jeff Grubb March 21, 2018 1 min Almost everyone on the GamesBeat team is at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco this week, and we’re going to have some audio... Continue Reading 1 min
Eco’s player-driven economy let me create a financial meltdown Posted byby Jeff Grubb March 15, 2018 5 min In the last week of my life in the survivalist civilization simulator Eco (which is out now in Early Access on Steam for $30), I... Continue Reading 5 min