The Economist, stodgy and venerable publication that it is, has joined the growing group suggesting that video games may be one good way to do it. A recent article reports on some of the same powerful aspects of gaming that I’ve highlighted here in Taking Games Seriously as well as in…
September 4th, 2008 | Jeff Cobb | Comments | Continuedgames
Games, Associations, and Generations
I am just back from the American Society of Association Executives annual conference (with a few days of vacation thrown in on the end). It was a great event, though I regret that I was not able to get to the gaming session that Sue Pelletier recently highlighted on her…
August 25th, 2008 | Jeff Cobb | Comments | ContinuedTaking Games Seriously
I recently wrote an article about serious games that will appear in the first volume of WE , a new Internet magazine. By games I mean the type of high-tech online and console-based interactivity represented by World of Warcraft or Nintendo’s highly-popular Wii.
By “serious” games, I mean these same types of games,…
July 30th, 2008 | Jeff Cobb | Comments | Continued


