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Triangle Game Conference Reveals Speakers, Tracks[03.19.10]
The annual Triangle Game Conference, which focuses on the development scene concentrated in North Carolina's Research Triangle Park, is back for another year, and has announced its tracks and speakers.

Round-Up: Gamasutra Network Jobs, Week Of March 19[03.19.10]
In this round-up, Gamasutra highlights some of the notable jobs posted in its industry-leading game jobs section this week, including positions from SCEA Santa Monica, WB Games and more.

MSU-Developed Game Teaches Cambodian Children to Avoid Landmines[03.18.10]
A team of students and instructors at Michigan State University is developing a serious game application designed to teach children in Cambodia to identify and avoid landmines and other unexploded ordnance.

AMD Provides $100,000 Grant For G4C Design Workshop[03.18.10]
For its third straight year, chip maker AMD will support the annual Games For Change Festival in New York, offering a $100,000 grant to sponsor a full-day design workshop geared at educators attending the event.

Women In Games Conference Cancelled Due To 'Low Delegate Numbers'[03.17.10]
Organizers for the annual Women In Games Conference have announced that they are cancelling the 2010 event to be held in Bradford, England, blaming "low delegate numbers."

U.S. Senator Rockefeller to Chair STEM Games Competition[03.16.10]
United States Senator Jay Rockefeller will serve as honorary chair for the West Virginia student-focused Games Competition on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.

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.