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Kriegspiel -- About

In January 1977, the French Situationist Guy Debord founded the Society for Strategic and Historical Games. The Society had an immediate goal: to produce the "Kriegspiel," a "game of war" that Debord had already designed in his head years before. Inspired by the military theory of Carl von ...

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Dept. of Isms: War Games: The Talk of the Town: The New Yorker

The centerpiece of the recent “Form as Strategy” exhibit, at Columbia’s Buell Center, was a copper- and silver-plated board game called Le Jeu de la Guerre—a kind of modernist take on chess conceived in 1977 by the Marxist philosopher and filmmaker Guy Debord, with inspiration from the military ...

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Meaningful Play 2008: Designing and Studying Games that Matter

Meaningful Play 2008 is an interdisciplinary academic conference that explores the potential of games to entertain, inform, educate, and persuade. The conference includes thought-provoking keynotes from leaders in academia and industry, peer-reviewed paper presentations, panel sessions ...

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Sealund’s Blog » Blog Archive » eLearning Guild Embraces Serious Games for Serious Learning

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McKinsey: ignore Second Life at your peril - Times Online

Virtual worlds such as Second Life will become an indispensible business tool and vital to the strategy of any company intent on reaching out to the video-game generation, one of the world's leading consultancies has said.

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WoW, Inc. - Video Game Feature - Yahoo! Video Games

Yahoo! Video Games - The latest video game news, demos, videos, reviews, previews and cheats.

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The Virtual Worlds BusinessCast » VW017 - Ron Edwards, Ambient Performance

Welcome to Episode Seventeen of The Virtual Worlds BusinessCast, brought to you by Voices in Business . Today’s show features an interview with Ron Edwards, President of Ambient Performance, a firm specializing in mobile solutions, Web 2.0 collaborative technologies and Virtual Worlds. Ambient ...

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Federal Consortium for Virtual Worlds

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Kzero » Blog Archive » The virtual Streets of Philadelphia and real-time geo-tagging

The virtual city project created by GeoSim was mentioned briefly in this post from yesterday. Here’s a deeper look into the project. GeoSimPHILLY is the first real world city to be created by GeoSim Systems, an Isreali-based company. Their objective - to create virtual cities looking as ...

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A Free, Open Source Solution to Second Life for Organizations | Clever Zebra - Open Solutions for Virtual Enterprise

After working for many months, the team has put together a package for corporations, or indeed anyone, that will allow complete builds for their office, team, corporation, university or non-profit. Pick up Zebra Corporate for FREE on SLExchange

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