Episode 115 – Old Games New Money

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Michael R. and Phaedra are together to talk about the business side of games… How big is the serious games market? How can you make money at it? We also look at Disney’s latest announcement – Playmation. We think about changing our mood with Thync’s new Mood Altering Headset. And, we discuss which of the new Video Game Hall of Fame inductees we like playing the most. So sit back, pour yourself a nice big cup of coffee…and get ready to play some Games At Work!!

Show links:
2015 Serious Games Market Sizing
Epic offers $60k for your winery build
Disney teases Playmation
Thync’s Mood Altering Headset
Disney Launches it’s own minecraft like world
World Video Games Hall of Fame
Daily Tech News Show
Pixels Movie

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Episode 114 – Augmented Shazam

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The Michaels look at the latest Augmented Reality announcements from DARPA, Apple, and Shazam, so you don’t have to. We look at the new Apple acquisition of MetaIO, DARPA’s gaming initiative for uncovering bugs in code, a website that is helping scientists map neurons within the human brain, and Shazam’s new visual tagging application. We discuss how far Augmented Reality apps have come since 2008, and Yelp’s initial Monocle, and also our favorite wine tracking apps.

Show Links:
Apple Buys MetaIO
DARPA Code Games
Shazam AR
Game to Map Brain Neurons
Cellar Tracker App
Brickies App
OBDLink Tool
Blush For Wine App
ViVino App
AR Contact Lens

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Episode 113 – Conferences Galore

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We welcome back our long lost co-host Phaedra, who has been burning it up as a speaker at whole bunch of conferences lately. Michael M. and Phaedra look at how games are being used to help, influence, and impact the lives of teens (both for good and bad). We discuss citizen advocacy games, social responsibility games, and how in order to win in the game of business we all must win together.

Show links:
GDC in San Francisco
SXSW – Panel – Future of serious games for school
East Coast Gamers Conference
City of Raleigh’s Digital Connectors Program
Switchpoint Conference
Summit on Extremism
Fresh Biz game
Serious Games Association

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Episode 112 – Persistent Personality Profile

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It’s May and the co-hosts are all together to talk about gaming internet security. Michael R describes two different approaches to gaming internet security he saw at the recent RSA Conference, and challenges his co-hosts and you the listener to come up ways of improving both of them. We also discuss which games we are playing.

Show Links:
RSA Conference
Mavi Interactive
Blizzard Ban’s Cheaters
Star Wars Commander
Alto’s Adventure
Flower Game

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