The Call for Papers for the 2010 Game Education Summit to take place at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts’ Interactive Media Division, is open for submissions. We were absolutely thrilled with the submissions for the 2009 Summit and we have added even more categories for submission for the 2010 Summit.

Submit your panel, presentation or round table and be part of the conference that brings the video game education programs and the game industry together. www.gameeducationsummit.com

CGER is a new peer reviewed academic journal that focuses on the teaching of game design and development. CGER has sent out the first Call for Papers and the submissions will be accepted until December1, 2009. THis is a really exciting opportunity to be part of this new journal. The Call for Papers that can be found at http://www.akpeters.com/previews/cger.pdf

A free Project Darkstar webinar for students will be presented on 21 October 2009 from 10-11am EDT by Owen Kellett from the project darkstar team at Sun Microsystems. Owen will provide an overview of the API and discuss how this open source technology directly addresses demands for the short user response time and low latency which are at odds with the high-throughput focus of modern systems architectures. Read the rest of this entry »

«3D Networks» (« 3D Réseaux ») is the first Serious Game in 3D real time of its kind, designed to train and inform employees and students of all the risks of public works near buried networks.

3D Networks is a new generation of Serious Game bound to train and inform working staff and civil engineering students. The safety of the persons and the properties is, indeed, a permanent concern of the profession and the Regional Federation of the Public works.

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This video about game education, called Why I Teach features Prof. Elena Bertozzi from the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater. This great video highlights why game education is important for everyone and looks at Prof. Bertozzi’s engaging teaching strategies.

http://storybridge.tv/elena

Visit the Game Education Summit website to see the latest sessions and speakers to be announced. With over 40 speakers and 7 tracks this two-day conference is not to be missed!

This year’s Game Education Summit will be at the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University June 16-17. Sessions will include Game Curriculum, Serious Games, Games as Art, Creativity in Games, Games as Community and much more. Visit our website for more information.

The awesome women over at Women in Games are holding a logo competition for a new organization logo. Women in Games is based in the UK and they hold annual conferences that focus on highlighting recent work by women in the academic and industrial spaces. This contest is open to students and would give one of your students some great visibility in the game space.

New research has been released on The Motivating Role of Violence in Video Games by Andrew K. Przybylski and Richard M. Ryan of the UNiversity of Rochester along with C. Scott Rigby of Immersyve Inc. This ground-breaking work explores the relationship between violent content in video games and people’s motivation and enjoyment of game play.

The second annual Game Education Summit (GES) at the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University June 16-17, 2009 is seeking paper proposals from the academic, creative and industrial communities.  Through this annual event we aim to disseminate the most recent, groundbreaking work on games as education as well as game research. The conference will also focus on curriculum development and design.

Please visit  GES for more information.