September 5, 2008 - Will you answer the call? Think Services is asking for people to send them demonstrations and other examples for inclusion in the 2009 Serious Games Summit, which highlights games that aren’t only about entertainment. If you’re interested you’d better get started, however, because the deadline for submissions is September 24!
September 3, 2008 - As the best-known virtual world, Second Life can be the perfect place for health care institutions to communicate with their customers. And since their customers are in virtual worlds, that’s where the doctors and nurses will be too!
September 3, 2008 - You’re going to play a video game about evolutionary biology and like it. The same people who brought you SimCity now brings you Spore. Spore communicates some of the grand patterns of evolution and it begins with a meteorite crashing into a planet.
September 2, 2008 - I remember watching an episode of “Leave It To Beaver” and one of the boys sadly shaking his head as he talked about how girls couldn’t be engineers. Project IT is a project that involves high school girls in the design of computer games. Next year, in their fourth year, the students will take the final step and develop online portfolios of their work. So take that, Wally and Beav!
http://7thspace.com/headlines/291690/designing_and_playing_computer_games…
August 29, 2008 - Okay, one benefit of living in 2008 is that you can take reminders and information everywhere. That and shopping by TV! But really, now you can take Weight Watchers with you on your iPhone or Blackberry. Talk about convenience; at the gym, supermarket or eating out. Or while balancing on your Wii.
www.weightwatchers.com/templates/Marketing/Marketing_Utool_1col.aspx?pageid=1092821
August 28, 2008 - A special report on ModernHealthcare.com takes a look at the current world of interactive health. We need to improve healthcare in the 21st century, but can it be fun? Studies at the Health Games Research center at the University of Southern California confirm that children and teens who use video games for healthcare issues experience higher communication about their condition, fewer visits to the emergency room, and other benefits.
http://modernhealthcare.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080818/REG/707638353
August 26, 2008 - It really was worth waiting in line for! The iPhone can not only find you a restaurant, but you can use MyNetDiary to track your body fat, nutrition and more. Maybe that restaurant has a light cheesecake. From a food diary to medical records to anatomy, healthy living comes to the iPhone.
www.technewsworld.com/story/mobile-tech/64269.html?wlc=1219690636
August 25, 2008 - ‘What’s good for the body is good for the brain’. The title of this article says it all! September is Healthy Aging Month (bet you didn’t know that). Like your body, your brain needs to be exercised frequently. And it’s never, I mean never, too late to improve your health!
August 22, 2008 - Extra! Extra! Read all about it! We’ve got the evidence right here. Two new studies and West Virginia’s plan to put “Dance Dance Revolution” in all public schools are pretty convincing. Video games can be a tool to get everyone up and moving!
www.theadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080820/MOMS04/80814027
August 21, 2008 - Is this a great world or what? Now college students will be paid to test sports games. Louisiana gets video game publisher Electronic Arts’ first testing site. So for those people who can only get partial sports scholarships, there will be a way they can play games to pay for their education!