Hide & Seek festival
There are times I really wish I lived in London. The Hide and Seek festival is taking place between the 27th and 29th June in and around the Southbank Centre. It is a long weekend of pervasive games (defined by…
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Author Archive: nicola
World of…
‘Warcraft’ Sequel Lets Gamers Play A Character Playing ‘Warcraft’I always wondered how long it would take someone to create ‘Second Life’ within Second Life (would that be Third Life?).
The Sky Remains
I’m trying to write a paper on the potential of alternate reality games in education for an urgent deadline this afternoon, so am very easily distractible at the moment and have been studiously ignoring my blog feeds. However, when an…
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What strange things we do…
Why have I spent the morning so far finding a cuddly toy, photographing it and creating a Twitter account for it? The answer is here. Looks like it should be a lot of fun.
Passively multiplayer online gaming
The link to the Passively Multiplayer Online Game has been sitting in my ‘to investigate’ list untouched for a couple of weeks as I was worried that when I started playing I wouldn’t get any work done at all. Fortunately,…
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How games will change the world… perhaps
A link to this interesting article on the BBC was sent to me today (thanks, Emma). It raises some interesting points on the ways in which gaming is perceived and how it could be (should be?) integrated into a work…
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