Today, we’re happy to share the full videos of some of the 8th Annual Games for Change Festival’s most talked about keynotes and presentations. Below you’ll find videos from world renowned game designer Jesse Schell, Valve Software’s Gabe Newell, to Sheryl WuDunn’s conversation with Laura Pincus Hartman from Zynga.org and Pierre Guillaume Wielezynski from the… Read more »

On June 22nd, the 8th Annual Games for Change Festival in New York City came to a close with its 2nd Annual Games for Change Awards ceremony. Amanda Hirsch, on-line media strategist and cultural blogger and former editorial director of PBS.org, hosted the ceremony. The Awards recognize excellence in “games for change” that address current… Read more »

This year at the Games for Change Festival, we worked with the talented team from The Collaborative to create a series of nine short interviews profiling a selection of funders, creators, and leaders in the Games for Change space. Each video can be viewed individually or viewed altogether on the Games for Change: Funders, Creators, Leaders Vimeo… Read more »

The 8th Annual Games for Change Festival is now over! During the Festival, it was impressive how active the #G4C2011 twitter feed was and now that we have time to catch our breath and look over our e-mails, we’re reading over all the amazing blog posts, wrap ups, and photos sent in from our wonderful community…. Read more »

This interview is a guest post from Adrian Sanders from Kill Screen. Shortly after his great Games For Change presentation called “Innovations in Business and Funding Models“, Kill Screen sat down with CEO of Filament Games Dan White to learn more about what separates educational games from commercial ones and why making commercial games is… Read more »

By Marj Kleinman At a time when public and educational media budgets are skimpy, yet under attack by a variety of sources, major governmental agencies have been speaking out in support of gaming as a major engagement force and artistic medium–and this was only at a day and an hour into Games for Change 2011. Yesterday,… Read more »

Kotaku’s Stephen Totilo will be liveblogging Al Gore’s keynote for the 8th Annual Games for Change Festival. Find the Liveblogging here.

It is exciting to hear how successful “Games for Change” in one region can inspire others across different borders, languages, cultures, and themes. We recently spent some time talking to Suzanna Samstag, the head of the Games for Change Korea Chapter. We discussed her work with the Korean Government and commercial companies, particularly around two… Read more »

A unique partnership with Nick Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn around their bestselling book “Half the Sky”, that started at the 6th Annual Games for Change Festival in 2009, has taken some big steps, all the way to India and back – and today we’re happy to tell you more about the mobile games component of… Read more »

With 44 days left until the Festival, we’re excited to announce the nominees for the 2nd Annual Games for Change Awards. For those of you who have already registered, you can expect to play each of the games on-site at the event. If you haven’t registered, what are you waiting for? And the nominees are…