The 9th AnnualGames for Change Festival returns for the second year to NYU’s Skirball Center June 18-20. Remember, tickets for the Festival are only available until June 8! We sold out in 2011, so don’t take any chances because there will be no tickets for sale on site. Register now: http://gamesforchange.org/festival2012/attend Kicking off the Festival’s… Read more »

Yesterday we announced the 2012 Games for Change Awards Nominees. Leading up to the 9th Annual Games for Change Festival, we’re inviting the nominees to voice their opinions on our blog. Hear what they have to say, and check out their games. First up…Paolo Pedercini of molleindustria, recipient of three nominations for their game, Unmanned. Their latest title… Read more »

The End, Unmanned and WAY Lead with Multiple Nominations We’re excited to announce the nominees for the Games for Change Awards. These juried awards recognize the best attributes of social impact games and are presented in four competitive categories: Most Significant Impact, Most Innovative Game, Best Gameplay and Knight News Game. All nominees are also… Read more »

Joerg Hofstaetter and his now completed game, Ludwig (Demo Spotlight 2011) We have just completed selection of the four titles for this year’s Demo Spotlight. This section of the Games for Change Festival showcases games presently in development and seeking partners to provide additional funding, design expertise and/or publishing strategies. Announcing this year’s Demo Spotlight participants…

We’re excited to share that Games for Change is slated to receive its first-ever support from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) in their inaugural year of supporting games as an artistic medium. Since 1965, the NEA has awarded more than $4 billion to support artistic excellence, creativity, and innovation for the benefit of individuals and communities. The NEA… Read more »

If  you were one of the millions of people who downloaded the game Angry Birds Space a few days ago, you might have run across this unique clip… As someone who has been playing video games and watching MTV his entire life, this unique partnership struck me as extremely curious. Why did MTV, the pop… Read more »

Games for Change Italy Meetup Organizer Ivan Venturi introducing the crowd to “special” gamesFasten your seat belts, we are landing in Bologna, Italy!  A recent party and Games for Change Meetup in Italy brought together some of country’s most engaged app developers, universities, those working in the public sector, and “special’ games creators (Italians prefer to use… Read more »

A guest post by Josh Spiro “All professions are conspiracies against the laity,” according to the playwright George Bernard Shaw. But it would be interesting to see Shaw have a chance to re-evaluate his stance in light of the numerous digital technologies that put professional-grade tools for making movies, music, and visual art at the… Read more »

At the invitation of Grantmakers in Film + Electronic Media (GFEM) and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Games for Change is part of the curatorial team introducing a new theme around games that will run throughout the Annual Conference of the Council on Foundations. CoF is a national non-profit, membership association whose… Read more »

The Game Demo Spotlight returns to the 9th Annual Games for Change Festival and applications are now live! Criteria and application here. [Update: The deadline to apply has passed and the link is no longer active.] The deadline to submit for the Game Demo Spotlight is Friday, April 6 at 11:59 PM EST. Up to… Read more »