This is the catch-all category for stuff about games and game design. It easily makes up the vast majority of the site’s content. If you are looking for something specific, I highly recommend looking into the tags used on the site instead. They can narrow down the hunt immensely.
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Online Games by the Hundreds, With Tie-Ins – New York Times
On Tuesday Nickelodeon is expected to announce the first of 600 original and exclusive games for its network of Web sites, as part of a $100 million investment in game development.“We don’t believe they have enough homework,” joked Cyma Zarghami, the president of the MTV Networks’ Nickelodeon Kids and Family group.
To some that joke is not funny, but frightening, of course. 😉
I know, two Metaplace posts in a row…
Anyway, we are Looking for Community Beta Partners, people who have forums and want to try out adding a Metaplace world to them. This is just an early trial, so we’ll only pick a few to start. So if you’re interested, drop us a line at the link.
If you’re interested, please send me an email at [email protected]. Please include the following information:
- Name, url and brief description of the community
- Estimated number of unique monthly visitors/members
- Type and version of forum software that you’re running
- Ability / willingness to do some simple php integration
If you tried out Metachat on MySpace, you may notice that now it embeds a personal world — as in your own chat room — on your profile. If people stop by, you’ll see them as past visitors, they can leave messages in the chat history, and of course, if you both happen to be there at the same time, you can chat live… and of course, it links to the main Metachat world as well.
Wow, it’s been a crazy couple of weeks.:)
We’ve said all along that Metaplace is a platform for making all sorts of virtual worlds. I know a lot of you are waiting for games written in it – specifically an RPG, probably. But well, games are hard, and they take time. And we didn’t see any reason to wait! So we decided that it was time to start releasing some of the worlds that have been made with Metaplace, and today we launched the first one – a simple chat room.
This is part of the OpenSocial launch on MySpace, so it’ll be interesting and exciting to be in the first wave of apps… as of right now, we seem to be the #1 app. Of course, it just launched a few minutes ago. 😉 I fully expect to get overtaken any second now by Flixster…
There’s a more detailed post on this over at the Metaplace website, including some implementation tidbits.
If you have a MySpace profile, you can hit the apps page to add it, or visit Metachat directly.
Not “game industry” per se, but games are what drive this market right now. Pretty interesting.
5) Over 400 residential facilities for older adults have launched computerized “brain fitness centers.” Sales to the healthcare and insurance provider segment grew from $35 million in 2005 to an estimated $65 million in 2007.6) More than five programs have shown results in randomized controlled trials. Cognitive functions that can be trained include: visual and auditory processing, working memory, attention, and decision-making.
