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At GDC recently, Jane McGonigal announced her latest game: World Without Oil. It officially begins on April 30th, but sites and content are up already. It is apparently sponsored by Independent Lens and PBS, and is designed by Jane and written by Ken Eklund. This looks to be Jane’s move towards creating more socially responsible games [...]

    EA AND ENDEMOL ANNOUNCE CREATIVE PARTNERSHIP FOR VIRTUAL ME CANNES, FRANCE, – April 16, 2007 – Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: ERTS), the world’s leading interactive entertainment software company, and the Endemol group, a global leader in television and other audiovisual entertainment, today announced a creative partnership for the development of Virtual Me, a new [...]

I love this. This free (for now): RobotReplay lets you record and watch your website visitors in action. View recorded sessions of every mouse movement, click and keystroke: Improve your site’s usability See where your readers get bored Convert more visitors to buyers It’s usability testing for the rest of us. Check it out: http://www.robotreplay.com/

This looks quite interesting. A usability ontology workshop. I like it because I’m into ontologies and have been working an ontology for studying transmedia forms. My ontology is proposed under my framework: transmodiology. I’ve been working on this myself because, frankly, not many researchers and practitioners have got to the point where they realise the [...]

Dan Taylor has this great post about Heroes. Why is it great? It lists just about (not everything) every element NBC offers with Heroes, which as a cross-media researcher, saves me alot of time. I’ve been looking at Heroes and can see some really great things, and some bad ones. It seems they are separated [...]