Gabe Zichermann spoke at the 3rd TEDxBroadway in the heart of New York City this year, and we’re excited to share the video with you! Watch Gabe’s fast-paced, humor-packed TED talk and discover the power of games even for those who don’t usually play them!
Jane McGonigals opened the 11th annual Games For Change Festival in New York by talking on what the social good organization will be celebrating 10 years from now.
In late 2013, Gabe traveled to 12 cities worldwide for GSummit Global, a series of full-day workshops and meetups to bring GSummit closer to gamification fans. As a part of GSummit Global, we also released 10 new webinars and videos by gamification and engagement professionals. We will be releasing them publicly as we keep counting down to GSummit 2014.
Karl Dunn, Creative Director at TBWA Chiat Day , talks about how Nissan GT Academy came to be and how it engaged 400’000 players to participate.
Increase Student Engagement in the Classroom Digital games and learning have a long, storied history together that spans several decades. Ever since computers were introduced into mainstream culture in the 1980s, games have been used to supplement traditional teaching methods. While the early 1980s saw Nintendo make its way to American shores, the mid to late…
Online dating sites may be on the way to becoming old news. Gamification mobile apps have moved into the dating field with the introduction of twin applications, Flirt Planet Meet and Flirt Planet Play. These two new applications work together to offer the first mobile game and dating application for mobile. Flirt Planet Play is an interface where users can practice their dating skills and Flirt Planet Meet is an interface where users can try their new moves on potential dates.
Imagine if Second Life got supercharged with gamification and focused on mobile…you’d get this.
In late 2013, Gabe traveled to 12 cities worldwide for GSummit Global, a series of full-day workshops and meetups to bring GSummit closer to gamification fans. As a part of GSummit Global, we also released 10 new webinars and videos by gamification and engagement professionals. We will be releasing them publicly as we keep counting down to GSummit 2014.
Phaedra Boinodiris, the global serious games program manager for IBM, talks about how IBM has used serious games and gamification in the past and how it intends to go beyond its application in training to other areas.
A new type of toothbrush is looking to change the health world. Kolibree, a French startup, has developed a Bluetooth-enabled toothbrush that connects to your smartphone or tablet, tracks and displays your brushing habits, and allows you to compete for being the best brusher of teeth in the family!
In late 2013, Gabe traveled to 15 cities worldwide for GSummit Global, a series of full-day workshops and meetups to bring GSummit closer to gamification fans. As a part of GSummit Global, we also released 10 new webinars and videos by gamification and engagement professionals. We will be releasing them publicly as we keep counting down to GSummit 2014.
This week, Aaron Price, co-founder of Livecube and founder of NJ Tech Meetup, will share his learnings after successfully gamifying social media at events, including GSummit for the past 2 years. We are also doing it this year, so stay tuned and participate to win awesome prizes!
Eric’s High School Experience is an online K-12 education resource that offers interactive learning tools for those attempting the SAT, seeking ways to improve their high school performance or just keeping up with a lifelong learning goal.
It is a response to the College Board’s call to action after the 2013 SAT report on College & Career readiness revealed that only 43% of students that took the SAT were qualified as college-ready, and that this number had remained virtually unchanged for five years.
In late 2013, Gabe traveled to 15 cities worldwide for GSummit Global, a series of full-day workshops and meetups to bring GSummit closer to gamification fans. As a part of GSummit Global, we also released 10 new webinars and videos by gamification and engagement professionals. We will be releasing them publicly as we keep counting down to GSummit 2014.
First up, a webinar by Ian Di Tullio, the Director Loyalty Marketing of Air Canada. This fast-paced webinar will lead you through the basic features and characteristics of airline loyalty programs, with a neat case study of Air Canada’s own loyalty promotion, Earn Your Wings.
If you’ve ever attempted to learn a second language, you might have found yourself overwhelmed by this apparently daunting task, or even worse, got yourself disengaged because of the dryness of traditional textbooks and lecture formats they are conveyed in.
Don’t give up just yet! There are a couple of game-like methods out there for you to diverge from the traditional learning setting. This year during GDC week, Influent was released. Aimed to be a “Language Game Redefined”, the game enables players to have a self-directed learning experience, immersing them in a 3D house, fully furnished with a rich amount of everyday objects that can be interacted with in the chosen language.
Since our latest announcements, including Neil deGrasse Tyson as keynote, we decided to revise our Top 10 Reasons to Attend GSummit 2014 this June 10-13 in San Francisco. Please feel free to share this infograph and remember to use hashtag #GSummit when tweeting.
Lab Excels at ‘Serious Game’ Development Games in education are a new trend and prove that it is very possible to make learning fun. Games can help the player learn and retain important information. While there are many examples of educational games, here is a college which specializes in the development of innovative and unique research-based…
For the past decades, Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson has been at the forefront of teaching science to the masses. His singular achievement has been to make the impossible, accessible – and the complex, understandable for millions. In the course of doing this, he’s learned a thing or two about how to teach the hard…
It’s no surprise that Google would create an amazing and elaborate April Fool’s joke that would seem so incredibly possible. What is this joke? Google created a game with Google Maps to catch Pokemon. It’s the stuff of every Poke-fanatic’s dream with the potential for a title of Pokemon Master, a fancy business card, and a job with Google.
The best part is: it may be only half a joke. An update for Google Maps has been released and will allow players to find Pokemon with an unlimited amount of Pokeballs while using Google Maps when they explore the terrain.
