Bunchball has announced its inaugural Gamification Rockstar Roadshow event in San Francisco on December 4th to showcase some of its best success stories and product demos from a number of their customers, including Adobe, Bluewolf, CrowdFlower, Zamzee, and Course Hero. The event will also be demonstrating some of the specific use-cases of Bunchball’s Nitro platform,…
gsummitX Europe is two days away and in light of our event, we’ve been maintaining a list of some of the top examples of gamification in Europe. Today, we’re announcing our winner: Gamisfaction stole the show with a whopping 120 total user votes and is our top example of gamification in Europe with their gamified twitter client. Using Gamisfaction,…
In a humble space that has housed numerous sample sales and the New York City Chocolate Show, Badgeville held an exclusive invite-only event for thought leaders interested in gamification. Located on the second floor of the Metropolitan Pavilion, Badgeville’s Engage 2012 event greeted each attendee with a laissez-faire coat check, a fancy neodymium-magnet ID badge, and…
gsummitX Europe will be happening in exactly 3 weeks at the awesome Nokia House 1 in Berlin from October 24th to 25th. (Isn’t that Nokia Maps fancy?). This marks our first gamification event in Europe and will consist of Gabe Zichermann’s exciting gamification workshops with certification and our famous meetup structure. Get the chance to link…
Dolby Labs Sponsors Sound of Games Exhibit Exhibit opens September 7 Oakland, California – TKTK, 2012 – The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment (The MADE) will open the doors on its newest exhibit, The Sound of Games, on Friday, September 7. This exhibition will open to the media and art world on September 6…
Last week, 43 awesome people came and attended our 2nd gsummitX in NYC with great enthusiasm! There was so much excitement, one particular person came an entire hour early. Not entirely a big deal because, since we at GCo love you all so much, we provided the delicious taste of Sam Adams, Hoegaarden, Land Shark…
The second gsummitX London went really well on Monday night. With over 30 attendees from across the industry we had a chance to meet up at the prestigious Capgemini offices in Holborn Circus.
Craving that next GSummit event but can’t wait for our next big one? Well if you’re in New York City or Bogota, you’re in luck! We have just announced two gsummitX meetups for all you hungry gamifiers to meetup, network, and talk gamification: gsummitX Bogota will be happening at 6:00 PM on Monday, August 13,…
Gamification leader Badgeville announced their first summit focused on educating businesses on the implementation of game, reputation, and social mechanics to their digital business model for behavior management. Recognizing the need to educate businesses on effective gamification, Badgeville will host Badgeville University—a two day summit held in San Francisco from Aug 8 to Aug 9. Day 1 will…
Have you ever dreamed of flying?. Of course you have! Everyone does and I actually was able to fly with brainpower…albeit not very far. It would be nice to say I was as triumphant as Ariel Kaminer of the New York Times in my ability to use the raw power of my mind to levitate…
Hello GCo Readers! Are you itching to see all those awesome pictures from GSummit 2012? Now you can! We’ve just created a brand new Flickr account to showcase all of the best pictures. We currently only have photos from the VIP Party and the Day 1 Workshops but will have the rest of the photos in…
The game industry as we know it is changing, and with that change we’re seeing massive disruption, consolidation, innovation, and the arrival of big money across all platforms. Industry leaders are moving from console games to online, from social games to mobile, and from the web to Facebook and vice versa. GamesBeat 2012 — VentureBeat’s fourth annual…
My excitement about attending this year’s Games 4 Change Festival was definitely well founded. Throughout the entire day there was a palpable excitement in the air, every conversation I had was about the limitless potential of games and how we’re witnessing a unique moment in human history. It was electric.
Check out my personal live stream for all the main stage events of GSummit 2012 Day 2. Also catch the recorded sessions on FORA if you want to see all these materials from the comfort of your home.
This will be the live blog for All Room 2 Sessions! Be sure to check out the feed below to see what’s going on and if you want to watch it live, be sure to check out our FORA.tv channel.
