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Mini-games with a social justice message. Great for sparking in-class discussions and raising awareness with your students.

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"Real access to persistent worlds directly from your mobile." The trouble with being a procrastinating writer is if you don't hurry up and your book done, the sci-fi becomes reality.

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"In exchange for a collaborator's investment to create and manage a NASA-based MMO game for fun and to enhance STEM, NASA will consider negotiating brand placement, limited exclusivity and other opportunities." Great, a Mountain Dew space shuttle.

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". . . we've seen a proliferation of MMOs targeting the same young demographic as ours . . . So, yeah, it's getting crowded out there and there are many more in the works so it's getting even more crowded."

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BBC to work with publisher to create "an IP revolving around a five-book fantasy series set in a post-apocalyptic future where humans, animals, and machines all compete for dominance, in a global agreement that covers TV, MMOGs, and other media." Sounds

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"Educators are largely missing out on what could be a huge opportunity to capitalize on their students’ appetite for electronic games and simulations to teach them about core curriculum topics, results from a new national survey suggest."

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New camera will allow Second Life users to navigate through world with no hands. Totally freakin' cool.

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"ElectroCity is a new online computer game that lets players manage their own virtual towns and cities. It’s great fun to play and also teaches players all about energy, sustainability and environmental management in New Zealand." Totally using this if/

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Media conglomerate InterActiveCorp announced several niche sites earlier today, including Green.com, a new virtual world site built to teach children and 'tweens how to help the environment and "do good deeds in fun ways."

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More than a quarter of eight to 11-year-olds who are online in the UK have a profile on a social network, research shows.

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"EVE Online will elect a governing body through an in-world democratic process, called the Council of Stellar Management. Nine representatives and five alternates were elected by popular vote from EVE's player base" Pretty soon they'll be asking for a spo

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"The first conference in the UK to draw together producers and researchers working on virtual worlds and immersive gaming environments for children aged 7-11 online." Too bad I live on the wrong side of the water.

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Trinity Ventures and Fluid Ent. are building "an online world that encourages kids to explore their creativity, initiative and imagination, within an ecologically themed narrative." Hopefully it won't involve the holy trinity of vw consumerism: mini-games

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"A group of researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, with support from IBM and other sponsors, claim they're working on developing virtual world characters that can hold beliefs and reason about the beliefs of others."

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I'm liking the mix of real and virtual worlds here, but I think the idea to base it around chores is going to make it a real tough sell with the kids. Pretty soon, they'll figure out that there are online worlds where their parents can't bug th

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I cannot tell you the influence this man's work has had on my career and life paths. Seriously. Ask me about it sometime.

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"Sid Meier pointed to the personal computer, Sim City, and Nintendo's Seal of Approval as the three most important innovations in gaming history." Not sure about the Nintedno thing, but I'm down with the other two.

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"Soon real buildings will be monitored and taken care of remotely through cyber replicas on the net — and their inhabitants too." Late on this, but still too cool to pass up.

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EA SVP Luc Barthelet explained that users could now join "a world that is free-to-play, and based on a re-engineered The Sims Online architecture."

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"The U.S. Intelligence community is looking into World of Warcraft and other MMOs, aiming to create software that will pick out extremists and terrorists in online worlds." Someone's watched too many episodes of the Border.

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