Post by leunas on Jan 11, 2007 14:43:43 GMT -5
I have a good feeling about this year.
Game developments and news are all picking up again, after a frankly rather boring 4 months of next-gen console talk and not much else. It's almost as if everyone's got that out of the way, along with xmas, and we can now focus on lots of new, interesting things.
I think 2007 will make great strides, for instance, in the serious games field. Games for learning, games for health, some public service gaming.. it's an area that's been laying some excellent groundwork these past few years, and will get a fair bit of spotlight this year. Certainly in the UK, OFCOM has a proposal for a Public Service Publisher, which would deal a lot with games and gaming technologies. Also, there's been so much popular material on the subject of games as new and interesting business recently, from the likes of Henry Jenkins and Steven Johnson, you know the sort of stuff.
So here's a new one, How Computer Games Help Children Learn, hot on their heels; I haven't read it, but I like the title and it's getting really good reviews, so one for the pile. These past few years have been notable for screamy politicians, anti-game rhetoric and media-fuelled frenzies; perhaps 2007 is the year for the other side of the story.
www.wonderlandblog.com/wonderland/2007/01/how_computer_ga.html
Game developments and news are all picking up again, after a frankly rather boring 4 months of next-gen console talk and not much else. It's almost as if everyone's got that out of the way, along with xmas, and we can now focus on lots of new, interesting things.
I think 2007 will make great strides, for instance, in the serious games field. Games for learning, games for health, some public service gaming.. it's an area that's been laying some excellent groundwork these past few years, and will get a fair bit of spotlight this year. Certainly in the UK, OFCOM has a proposal for a Public Service Publisher, which would deal a lot with games and gaming technologies. Also, there's been so much popular material on the subject of games as new and interesting business recently, from the likes of Henry Jenkins and Steven Johnson, you know the sort of stuff.
So here's a new one, How Computer Games Help Children Learn, hot on their heels; I haven't read it, but I like the title and it's getting really good reviews, so one for the pile. These past few years have been notable for screamy politicians, anti-game rhetoric and media-fuelled frenzies; perhaps 2007 is the year for the other side of the story.
www.wonderlandblog.com/wonderland/2007/01/how_computer_ga.html