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Conference Press
Posted by Benjamin Stokes on 07-23-06
Recent press from our 2006 conference includes:
- 30-Dec: San Jose Mercury News: Forget Sonic. These video games are serious
- 8-Dec: Wall Street Journal: Games Show the Way
- 1-Dec: What is Enlightenment (magazine): Gaming for a Higher Cause
- 24-Nov: NPR (Here and Now): Gary Goldberger, G4C Ambassador in SL
- 16-Nov: Now Toronto (magazine): Activist gaming takes hold
- 1-Nov: Nonprofit Times: Gaming Wins New Advocates
- 27-Oct: Today Online, Courier Mail: 'Serious Games' take aim at shoot-'em-up video
- 8-Oct: La Revista: Jugar a cambiar el mundo (Puerto Rico)
- 7-Oct: Daily Camera: Gaming for Good
- 18-Sep: Plenty Magazine: Just Push Play (environmental games)
- 6-Sep: Palm Beach Post: New generation of video games takes on serious subjects
- 4-Sep: EuroGamer: Darfur is Dying (Interview)
- 23-Aug: NBC's Today in New York: Video Games With A Humanitarian Message
- 16-Aug: KQED Radio: Serious Games panel with Seggerman, Zimmerman, Burak, LaFond (30 minutes)
- 10-Aug: News 14 Carolina: Videogames promote social change (NY1 rebroadcast of 5 July)
- 7-Aug: Newsweek International: Games for Good (shortened print version of the July 11th Story)
- 26-Jul: Wisconsin Public Radio (Here on Earth): 1-hr radio show with James Paul Gee and Benjamin Stokes on 'games to change the world'
- 25-Jul: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: Live Interview with Suzanne Seggerman
- 23-Jul: NYTimes: Saving the World, One Video Game at a Time
- 15-Jul: Globe and Mail: activism has evolved beyond sit-ins
- 11-Jul: Newsweek International: Gaming the Poor
- 7-Jul: Times Now: Games for Change
- 7-Jul: News8Austin: Videogames and Social Change (see NY1)
- 7-Jul: Forward: Clicking Toward Middle East Peace
- 5-Jul: Voice of America: Designers Tackle Real World Problems
- 5-Jul: NY1: Can Video Games Help Affect Social Change?
- 4-Jul: CGSociety: Games for Good
- 3-Jul: Zee News: Video games take on humanitarian twist
- 1-Jul: ReutersTV: Humanitarian Video Games
- 30-Jun: The World(PRI,BBC): Serious Gaming
- 30-Jun: BBC: Radio Scotland (interview)
- 30-Jun: BBC: Late Night Radio (interview)
- 30-Jun: BusinessWeek online: Getting Activist Video Games to Market
- 29-Jun: NYSun: Videogames Get Serious
- 29-Jun: MTV News: Can Social-Change Video Games Tackle Divorce, Poverty, Genocide?
- 29-Jun: Daily Telegraph: 'Ethical' computer games take on shoot-'em-up classics
- 28-Jun: NPR (Morning Edition): Video-Game Designers Target World Peace
- 27-Jun: Reuters (CNN.com, AlertNet, EpochTimes, Boston.com, Infoworld, Yahoo): Video game designers try to help save the world
- 24-Jul: ActOn: Taking Games Seriously
- 24-Jul: MediaSnackers: podcast interview with Benjamin Stokes
- 21-Jul: MediaRights: Games for Change: Serious Fun
- 21-Jul: Serious Games Source: Conference Wrap
- 11-Jul: Social Edge: Digital Games Discussion
- 10-Jul: Serious Games Source: Funding Perspectives
- 5-Jul: Serious Games Source: Big Media
- 2-Jul: STLToday: Make a Point with Violence
- 29-Jun: Skeptic Tank: Games for Change
- 29-Jun: Raph Koster's Blog
- 29-Jun: NP Marketing Blog -- day 2
- 29-Jun: Beth's Blog
- 29-Jun: Global Kids Digital Media Blog
- 28-Jun: GrandTextAuto: Games for Change 2006 Report
- 27-Jun: Flickr Stream of 06-G4C tag
- 26-Jun: Greater Democracy Blog: Games for Changing Cynicism
- 1-Aug: Serious Games Source: Educating to Mobilize the Masses