Apr
2015
Gregory, S. (2015). Virtual World, Varsity Sport. Time, 185(12), 44.
http://time.com/3759634/virtual-world-varsity-sport/
Much like the way athletic-gear companies such as Nike and Adidas infiltrated traditional scholastic sports, video-game companies are helping underwrite the college gaming explosion. Riot Games, creator of League of Legends, is offering $360,000 in total scholarship money toplayers who make this year’s collegiate Final Four, more than tripling last year’s prize
My note: recommendation to LRS gaming committee. Can Eric be the LRS rep who can seek collecting an adhoc SCSU team? as per https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2015/03/19/recommendations-for-games-and-gaming-at-lrs/
If we to meet Dennis, Jim and/or Susantha, as recommended by Mark Vargas, the conversation needs to go that direction. Matt Barton definitely will be interested.
If we to consider the second and third higher level (how to gamify the educational process) or the educational methodology of gaming, I think we have to prepare the argument at LRS (as recommended by someone with a terminal degree in education or at least strong interest in pedagogy).
More on gaming at IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/?s=gaming
more on gamification at IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/?s=gamification
Plamen Miltenoff
April 4, 2015 at 6:01 pm (9 years ago)Peckham, M. (2015). Does Nintendo Have Any Big Ideas Left?. Time, 185(11), B1-B4.
http://time.com/3750545/does-nintendo-have-any-big-ideas-left/
http://eds.b.ebscohost.com.libproxy.stcloudstate.edu/eds/detail/detail?sid=33d2dde2-f9b0-42c4-ae88-a8995d13b5ca%40sessionmgr111&vid=42&hid=117&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmUmc2NvcGU9c2l0ZQ%3d%3d#db=aph&AN=101640313
For all its iconic achievements, Nintendo has actually been struggling for years. Wii U, the successor to the wildly popular Wii, has sold just under 10 million units since its launch in 2012. (From 2006 to 2014, Nintendo sold more than 100 million Wiis. And Microsoft and Sony, which launched competing systems after Wii U, have both outsold it.) Last summer, Nintendo laid off over 300 employees in Europe. And the company’s return to modest profitability late last year, thanks in part to a weaker yen, materialized after three consecutive years of losses.
Nintendo’s critics have been relentless in demanding that the company abandon its hardware business and make versions of its games for smartphones and tablets. It’s not hard to see why: research firm Gartner reported global smartphone and tablet sales of over 1.4 billion units in 2014. By contrast, the two best-selling video-game systems of all time—Sony’s PlayStation 2 console and Nintendo’s DS handheld—each took nearly a decade to sell 150 million units. Meanwhile, smartphone gamemakers like King (Candy Crush) and Rovio (Angry Birds) are now worth billions. And mobile knockoffs of 1980s classics have turned into overnight hits (see: Crossy Road and Flappy Bird), while Mario, Luigi and friends can’t be found on a phone.