For the first time ever, Games for Change took an active part in the annual Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco (a record attendance of 22,500 this year!). On Tuesday, March 6th, we curated a daylong summit bringing together some of the best game designers, developers, thinkers, researchers, and advocates for our space. The… Read more »

A couple of weeks ago, as part of our Lab services, Games for Change led a full day hands on game workshop for Heifer International. Heifer, whose mission is to end world hunger through a livestock gifting program, education and hands on training, contacted us to help their new gaming efforts around this cause. The daylong program… Read more »

After the first great day of Summits at the Game Developers Conference (March 5 – 9 in San Francisco) we wanted to give you an opportunity to follow along with our own day long event, the Games for Change @ GDC Summit. For those unable to attend on Tuesday, March 6, we’ll be live updating on social media… Read more »

2nd Annual Games for Change Award WinnersDo you have what it takes to be Game of the Year? The submission process has just opened for the 3rd Annual Games for Change Awards. Of note for this year… new categories! 2012 Award Categories include: Most Significant Impact Most Innovative Game Best Gameplay Knight News Game and…… Read more »

Last week, we had the pleasure of welcoming Emily Treat as the latest addition to the Games for Change New York City staff. She joins us as our new Senior Game Producer. To give everyone a sense of her background, her experiences, and what she hopes to bring to the table, we thought it would… Read more »

By Julie Coniglio A character from “Socks Inc.”Crowdfunding is a great option for games for good – especially for causes that already have communities attached to them. With supporters and end-users funding your game project, you don’t have a publisher or investor vetting your ideas. Essentially, online crowdfunding platforms are vehicles to create change from the… Read more »

By Josh Spiro Two groups of people take a standardized test. One group gets asked to fill out their race before the exam, the other doesn’t. This simple question produces a phenomenon called “Stereotype Threat”, which makes people, particularly people of color, subconsciously anxious that they might prove a stereotype true, and drastically reduces their… Read more »

There’s one month to go before we bring our inaugural daylong summit to the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco, on March 6. Early bird pricing ends on February 2nd – so take advantage of GDC’s discounted pricing by registering now. For those of you who haven’t registered, allows us to stoke your curiosity… Read more »

In 2006, the Singapore government began working with The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in a partnership to research digital media. One of their core projects was the Singapore-MIT Game Lab, whose goal was to research how the latest game technology, culture, art, history, and business could contribute to Singapore’s gaming industry. For the past… Read more »

The 9th Annual Games for Change Festival will be taking place on June 18-20, 2012. The call for talks and presentations is now live! The Festival is the largest gaming event in New York City and the only event that facilitates the creation and distribution of social impact games that serve as critical tools in humanitarian… Read more »