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Final Fantasy X Gave Me Control After Spinal Surgery Took It Away
Today, at a Games for Change conference in New York, Jane McGonigal — video game designer and thinker — took the stage to talk about pain. And trauma. She talked about her own struggle through brain damage. She shared similar stories from cancer patients. She explained how sometimes games can actually help ease those difficulties.
Jane McGonigal And Oprah Get Together To Make Giving Gratitude A Game
Game designer and champion Jane McGonigal advocates games as a tool for making the world a better place. She has a book and a pile of research explaining all of the ways in which games can be beneficial for players’ physical and mental health as well as for the wider world.
What Can Terrorists Learn From Video Games?
Gamification is the act of applying video game-like rewards to non-gaming situations as a form of motivation. Imagine earning experience points for taking out the trash, or scoring well on a customer service survey, or learning how to create homemade explosives for use in terrorist acts.
Video Games Can Save The Planet, But Only If We Play More
Only video games can save the world, says Jane McGonigal, but only if we dedicate more time to playing them, some 21 billion hours of game time per week needed to survive the next century.
Correction: Superstruct Not A Kurzweil Production
Yesterday we reported that Ray Kurzweil had launched a futurism-themed MMO – Superstruct.
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