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Discover the Superhero Within You in Wonder City: Q&A With Naomi Clark

Wonder City, the companion game to the documentary Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines, launched this week with the aim of changing how players visualize power and gender. … Read more

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Q&A With MinecraftEdu Co-Creator, Joel Levin

Giving students the right tools to expand their knowledge and skills in the classroom is critical, and with MinecraftEdu, the immensely popular online game Minecraft has been added to teachers’ … Read more

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Auti-Sim: A Short, Overwhelming Look into Autism and Sensory Overload

I had barely made it to the center of Auti-Sim’s world—a playground filled with children—before ripping off my headphones and pushing away from the computer. Not because it was a … Read more

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How I See News-Games by Tomas Rawlings, Designer of Endgame:Syria

At GameTheNews.net we have been working on creating news-games for the past three months. We’ve covered a wide range of topics from solar power to the US election. However it … Read more

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Inside the Colorful Mind of a Man Banned from Apple’s App Store

Benjamin Poynter sees the world in a very unique way. A quick browse of his site will instantly reveal a bold, distinct, and technologically inspired manner of interpreting the world around him. … Read more

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Creating social commentary, one comic strip at a time

Steven Liang wants to change how we learn language, create public discourse, and create the means for more people to become content creators. At first blush, his Facebook app Wititudes, … Read more

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Ken Eklund on Crowdsourcing the Future of Education with Games

The actors behind “Ed Zed Omega” The following is a guest post by Josh Spiro, a new member of the Ed Zed Omega team, and a games for change blogger. … Read more

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“A Fitting” game to explore body image

At one point in your life, you may have tried chemically altering your hair, tried on a pair of pants that were way too tight, or focused more on fashion … Read more

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New documentary and game about Wonder Women in American pop culture

This is part two of our series covering the recipients of the Tribeca Film Institute’s “Games for Change Fellowship“. This unique program affords select documentary filmmakers the opportunity to create a … Read more

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Marco Williams is using his film and games to cross new borders

This is the first in a two part series detailing our work with recipients of the Tribeca Film Institute’s “Games for Change Fellowship”. —  Last year, Games for Change partnered … Read more

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