The Future of Gaming

Casual and social gaming

If like me you like to keep up to date on what is happening and will be happening in the world of youththen this is an excellent video.  Personally for me it is howing us the way Generation Z may see gaming in their life.  In this video Jesse Schell discusses trends in casual gaming , it is funny and very informative. Worth the half an hour in my mind.

The RPG (Role-Playing Generation)

What Business can learn from Gaming – Heledd Straker

At lot has been written and discussed about Generation Y and its use of social networking sites, but there isn’t so much at the moment on how businesses can gain insights into leading this cohort by observing how it uses other technologies, such as online role playing games.

While both MMORPGs (Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games) and social networking sites are used by Generation Y to hold conversations and so build trust-based relationships, the method of communication is different. On the one hand, social networking sites are designed to manage relationships and span the bridge between online and offline communities. On the other hand, MMORPGs focus on completing tasks and building up one’s identity and skill set in a virtual world; but skills which can be transferred to the real world.

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Gaming and Internet Use

Facebook . . . MySpace . . . YouTube…Video Games, arghh!

What is it all about? I mean, why are teenagers so obsessed with these sites? What is the appeal of Video Games? Should parents be worried? What are teenagers actually doing when they are on-line and why are they doing it? Is Facebook a friend or a foe?

I have to say that I have, as a parent, been very reluctant to allow my children to play video games and go on even appropriate social networking sites. In fact I even wrote a blog on what I did when my Mum offered to buy a Wii. I have been very anti the whole thing. I think for two main reasons.

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