NPR : Paying Real Money to Win Online Games
Listen in as Robert Siegel talks to Castronova, author of Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Games, and Robert Holt, an NPR video game reviewer, about the increasingly popular practice of using real-world money to aquire virtual gold pieces and more powerful characters.
Labels: ideas
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BBC - History - Games
BBC Interactive Content--A very nteresting collection of games to test your knowledge of history and warfighting strategy skills. Includes an opportunity to change history by defeating the British at Waterloo.
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Junkyard Sports: The Blog: Giant Pick-up Sticks, again
Bernie Blogs again! This one with more pictures of us playing giant pickup sticks.
Labels: fun, people
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Game Show Detroit
Game Show Detroit An interactive exhibit devoted to the art of games and the game of art, is coming to the Contemporary Arts Institute of Detroit (CAID) in June 2006. Since we see the merger of art and games as a catalyst for appreciating art and building community, our goal is to make this just one part of what we envision as a multi-venue event called GAME SHOW DETROIT.
Fred Goodman, celebrated game designer and University of Michigan Professor of Education Emeritus is one of the curators.
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