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Whosegame Sponsors Serious Game Creation Contest[01.05.09]
Online Flash game portal Whosegame is sponsoring a contest in which all new and current community members are challenged to design a serious game title using on-site game creation tools.

IBM Creating Virtual Worlds User Interface for the Blind[01.02.09]
IBM is developing a software tool that will enable vision-impaired users to participate in online virtual worlds. The program currently exists as a prototype that supports Linden Lab's Second Life.

Round-Up: Gamasutra Network Jobs, Week Of January 2[01.02.09]
In this round-up, Gamasutra highlights some of the notable jobs posted in its industry-leading game jobs section this week, including positions from Planet Moon Studios, Microsoft Game Studios, and Blizzard Entertainment.

Triage Trainer Improves Emergency Response in Medical Trainees[12.31.08]
Blitz Games Studios is currently developing Triage Trainer, a PC title that simulates medical treatment priority in a disaster setting. Initial playtesting has shown boosted accuracy and decision-making ability in trainees.

Analysis: Narrative Versus Simulation In MolleIndustria's Oiligarchy[12.31.08]
In her latest Gamasutra analysis, designer Emily Short looks at MolleIndustria's satirical web game Oiligarchy -- in which you are an oil tycoon "pillaging the planet to the point of apocalypse" -- and how, despite propaganda, it works as a "dark, angsty fan fiction of reality".

Realtime Forms Serious Games-Targeted LLC[12.26.08]
Computer graphics production agency Realtime Arts announced its formation as a limited liability company focused on providing production services and training courses for the virtual worlds, simulations, and serious games industries.

2007 Serious Games Summit GDC: Jane McGonigal On ilovebees, ARGs
This latest Serious Games Source feature covers a keynote by alternate reality game creator Jane McGonigal presented during the recent 2007 Serious Games Summit, during which she stated “I design games from the future,” and offered insight into the creation of Halo 2 ARG ilovebees.

Serious Game Engine Shootout
In the march up to the Serious Games Shootout panel to take place in March during the Serious Games Summit in San Francisco, writer Richard Carey presents a comparative analysis of several prominent engines currently used for developing serious games, as well as quotes from the companies behind the technologies.

Playing with Fire: Enemy Dolls
In this latest Playing with Fire feature, Powerful Robot Games' Gonzalo Frasca offers his unique insight into the perception of conflict in games, as well as in other media, and notes how looking at events through the eyes of the opposition could lead to better understanding.

Exergaming Goes Mainstream
In this latest Serious Games Source feature, Erin Hoffman discusses the current state of exergaming, and examines Dr. Ernie Medina's XRtainment Zone, which offers fun and healthy alternatives to traditional exercise regimes for both children and adults alike.

Persuasive Games: The Missing Social Rituals of Exergames
In this latest Persuasive Games feature, Ian Bogost examines the potential contributions to fitness by the Nintendo Wii, and offers insight into why social interaction is a necessary component to exergaming.

Serious Games Summit DC 2006: Building Better Budget Games
In our continuing coverage from the recent Serious Games Summit DC 2006, Serious Games Source features coverage from a presentation concerning the need for better budget games that both educate and inform.

Playing with Fire: When Advergaming Backfires
In this latest Playing with Fire feature, Powerful Robot Games' Gonzalo Frasca discusses Intel's recently released web-based advergame, The Intel IT Manager Game, and how a "cultural bug" resulted in the game's prompt removal and change.

Serious Games Summit DC 2006: The Serious Games Fund Raising Fandango
Our latest coverage from the Serious Games Summit DC 2006 conference deals with a presentation made during the event by Virtual Heroes' Jerry Heneghan concerning the right and wrong approaches to fund raising for serious game development.