Serious video games can address issues as varied as the Middle East conflict through to sexual coercion among teenagers. But can they really directly affect the issues they cover?

Marc Cieslak looks at the game 1979, created by a developer of games like Grand Theft Auto III, and its depiction of...

Games are infiltrating every aspect of daily life - and everyone's now a gamer, in one form or another. Early-on "gamification" involved adding simple game mechanics like points, badges and leaderboards to websites and apps. But that's not what makes games truly compelling. Good games take players...

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In this video, Scott Nicholson, director of the Because Play Matters game lab at Syracuse University's School of Information Studies talks about gamification, meaningful gamification, and a framework called RECIPE to help people creating gamification make it more...

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In the digital age virtually everything we do is recorded, monitored or tracked in some way. Where will this lead us? What is to be done? Wolfie Christl's talks about a game, which promises to change the way we think about privacy and big...

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Google Tech TalkJanuary 24, 2011Presented by Sebastian DeterdingABSTRACTFoursquare, GetGlue, Nike+, Badgeville: From reading news to fulfilling your hearts' desires, more and more "gameified" applications and "gamification" vendors doll out points and badges to users,...