As someone who does research on gender and games, I often hear the conventional wisdom that men prefer to play…
If you haven’t yet heard, Valve announced Teach With Portals, a new initiative to help students learn about physics by…
The brilliant and inimitable Vincent Baker went to a horror convention and tried to sell horror role-playing games – and it…
I’m moderately familiar with Harry Potter; it’s hard not to be, these days! I’ve read the books twice, and I…
People occasionally ask me why I don’t blog about games more often. After all, I do research on games; I…
What is hard for the students to learn? What makes it hard? Is there a ’threshold’ effect in your course, so that…
Oh hell yes. Greg Barker has written an absolutely terrific article summarizing his insights on achievement design. He’s got some…
Are they really doing serious games for the intelligence community? Why don’t they just make them all play Spy Party?…
For Chanukah, my fabulous husband bought me a Kinect. He has also proven to be an extremely patient husband, because…
From the Times, a surprisingly good overview of what’s going on in this area. When people talk to me about…