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Games and Cultural Spaces: Live Blog Notes from Games for Change

Amy Sample Ward

I’m at the 2011 Games for Change conference today and live-blogging a few sessions! The speakers for this panel include: Tracy Fullerton – Electronics Arts Game Innovation Lab. They thought, wouldn’t it be interseting to create a game to get people in the library who may not have ever come?

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Blizzard is hiring artists, designers, and engineers for a "brand-new" franchise

TechSpot

It did not have many details about the project other than it will be a "survival game." It sounds like it is in the early conceptual stages, and Blizzard is looking for talent. On Tuesday, Blizzard announced that it is looking for developers to work on a brand new IP.

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Suikoden’s creators are crowdfunding a spiritual successor

The Verge

Today, a new team called Rabbit & Bear Studios announced an upcoming Kickstarter campaign to fund Eiyuden Chronicle , a roleplaying game designed to evoke PlayStation-era nostalgia. Isn’t it about time we make a game for ourselves?”. One common thing that always came up was ‘Isn’t it about time we make a game for ourselves?

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Roblox has big plans for virtual music events

The Verge

American pop star Ava Max held a “virtual fan meetup” in the game to celebrate the launch of her new album Heaven & Hell. With live, in-person events almost entirely canceled across the globe, artists have been searching for new ways to connect with fans. It was a relatively simple affair. Things have started slowly.

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Bookshare User Sends Haiku

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Born in the early 17 th century, Haiku as a literary form was a product of the game Renga in which poets wrote alternating stanzas to create poems with sound unit counts known as "on." No matter the topic, Haiku spans the linguistic divide as a universal form of artistic expression.

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Final Fantasy’s creator is back with a classic RPG made of incredible handcrafted dioramas

The Verge

Hironobu Sakaguchi talks about his upcoming Apple Arcade game Fantasian Fantasian has everything you’d expect from a new Hironobu Sakaguchi experience. The creator of the Final Fantasy series is once again making a roleplaying game that takes place in a lush fantasy world, features turn-based combat, and centers on a globe-spanning quest.

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Spoke launches music therapy app for Gen Z, raises $1.5M round led by Ada Ventures

TechCrunch

Apps like Calm and Endel are exploring an expanding new universe of what’s becoming known as “functional sound” Calm and others are doing it in the meditation and sleep space, while Endel, which has raised $7.5 million, creates “functional sound” to enhance working or other activities. It’s now secured a £1.1

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