Blizzard seeks bigger involvement in spectator aspect of gaming
On April 3, Blizzard announced that it would host a championship for the strategy RPG Starcraft 2. The announcement was made at a press event for the StarCraft II World Championship […]
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Interview with Joost van Dongen, developer of Cello Fortress
Play Of Life interviewed Dutch game developer Joost van Dongen about his latest game, Cello Fortress, and his general philosophy about games. Cello Fortress is a “unique combination of a […]
The Super Nintendo Mouse as My First Mouse: Designing for Fun from MarioPaint
By Anamary Leal The Super Nintendo Mouse was bundled with the video game entertainment system in the 1990′s, and was one of my first forays into technology. Think about it […]
UFOs in SimCity
By Brian Keegan SimCity is one of my favorite computer game franchises from my childhood. I began playing SimCity 2000 when it required writing bootup batch scripts to allocate 4 […]
Product placements in Simcity Social
Product placement has long been a part of games as an alternative method of income to game distributors. (We’ve written about Dunkin Donuts in Sims Social). In my humble opinion, […]
A chat with WoW guildleader Nitroboost
Guest writer and World of Warcraft player Paul Kozlowski (Cosmic) interviewed Nitroboost, leader of the guild Fuel, inside the game. Editor’s notes for specific jargon are in brackets. Cosmic: So […]
Stop Zombie Mouth!
PopCap has an interesting campaign this Halloween- they’ve joined hands with the American Dental Association to promote giving the gift of a game rather than candy. And what better game […]
Interview with Jessica Hammer: Designing games that change mental models of discrimination and bias
Play As Life met up with researcher Jessica Hammer who was presenting her work at the Meaningful Play 2012 conference on serious games to talk about her game that will help […]
In My Tribe—Digital Elves
By Nathaniel Poor, PhD. A while ago, when I was playing Dragon Age II, I was reading over some wiki entry for elves in the game. It went on about […]
Online Gaming vs. Online Dating
Play As Life reader Tony Shin (@ohtinytony, Facebook.com/tony.shin40) provided us with this interesting infographic comparing online gaming and online dating that he designed with his team at Online University. (Click the image […]
