Welcome to an open house of the MIT Game Lab, where play and experimentation are joined by serious inquiry about the gaming industry and its role in society. The Game Lab's work is designed to help students think critically about the games they've often been playing for years without considering the values they might project, and to prepare them to engage in thoughtful design practices themselves.
Read MoreWomen in Games has revealed a manifesto calling for equality and equity in the games industry. The organization's Women in Games Manifesto is a fourteen-point declaration promoting the end of gendered discrimination.
Read MoreThe number of older players keeps going up, and some see a missed business opportunity here, especially as seven out of 10 older gamers don't think the industry designs games with them in mind, according to AARP. Celia Pearce has been studying older gamers for years.
Read MoreEven in heavily unionized Hollywood, there are ominous trends: While IATSE is an international union, major studio productions now routinely escape high labor costs in Hollywood by filming abroad. And the movie industry hasn't avoided the problems of the game industry entirely.
Read MoreGame Design vs. Game Development Yet another popular argument when it comes to game dev discussions is who is a part of a game's development - is it everyone on the team, just the leads, just the designer, etc.
Read MoreA group of game industry professionals and academics launched a new collaborative initiative aimed at collectively codifying and improving ethics in games. This new Ethical Games initiative was unveiled today during a live panel discussion on game ethics at the Games for Change Virtual Festival.
Read MoreBoard game stores around the world have been closed because they're far from an essential service, and most importantly, publishers are now finding they're unable to even get their games made, let alone ship them out internationally.
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