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Only one major press conference to go – and it’s arguably the most important one. Nintendo has promised to reveal Project Cafe at its presentation tonight, which takes place at 2am AET. I’ll be live blogging the event for those who feel like staying up – but in the mean time I roped Nintendo expert Daniel ‘Vooks’ Vuckovic into discussing our predictions for tonight’s event. What is Project Cafe? What games can we expect to see? Will Reggie finally do the moonwalk? The questions go on and on…
Well folks, E3 is about to kick off in earnest, and the first on the agenda is the Microsoft conference which starts at roughly 2am tonight AET. We’ll have a live stream you can watch here on the site but we’ll also be live blogging events as they occur. In real time [/jackbauer] . If you happen to be one of those insane people who enjoys staying up late for inevitable disappointment and bouts of uncontrollable rage, feel free to join us!
I mentioned the Games, Learning & Society Conference in Madison, Wisconsin back when a call for papers was put out. Michael Abbott of the Brainy Gamer has some interesting notes on the conference, which was held this past Thursday and Friday. The wrap up of the keynote speech, delivered by James Gee of Arizona State University, is an interesting meditation on the role of games (and not just ‘edutainment’) in education:
It’s a shame my summer is already booked up, because there’s a couple of events I’d really like to be able to hit. The Games, Learning & Society Conference in Madison, Wisconsin (10-11 July) is one of those. According to their blurb, the conference is about “real-life people playing real-life video games, and what they learn from doing it; it fosters substantive discussion and collaboration among academics, designers, and educators interested in how game technologies — commercial games and others — can enhance learning, culture, and education.” If you’ve got a paper you’re sitting on, now is the time to submit it — submissions close on 31 March. Full details after the jump.
Hope you all enjoyed the Nintendo Fall Conference yesterday. I know we did. Highly-concentrated bursts of news are always good times, but they’re even better when you don’t need to translate every word coming out of it. Here, then, is the complete conference (videos, powerpoint slides and all) translated into English. So kick back, forget yesterday ever happened and relive every moment, this time in a language that for 98.8% of you… well, makes sense!
Nintendo Conference [Nintendo]
