Video Games

CNN: Video Games and Porn are Ruining You

25 May 2012

It's been a few hours since the Internet told me I was a waste of humanity and a perversion of millions of years of evolution, but luckily CNN is filling in that gap. A recent article by Dr. Phillip Zimbardo and Nikita Duncan promoting their book "The Demise of Guys," argues that video games and ...

Nordic 2012: Fez's Phil Fish on where games fit between art and design

25 May 2012

Dieter Rams' 10 principles of good design have long since been an inspiration for designers everywhere. But how do they relate to video game design? How does video game design relate to other forms of design? What can video games learn from industrial design, graphic design or fashion design? What is design? What is good design? "Design is a plan, a blueprint. To design is to enact that plan ...

Can Video Games Solve Real Issues?

25 May 2012

Games like World of Warcraft give players the means to save worlds and incentive to learn the habits of heroes. What if we could harness this gamer power to solve real-world problems? Game designer Jane McGonigal says we can.