Tag Archives: Jane McGonigal

Tue, May 01, 2012 | 09:58 BST

Jane McGonigal, Oprah launch The Thank You Game

Game designer Jane McGonigal has teamed up with Oprah Winfrey to launch a new social game based on gratitude. Nope, I’m not joking and no, I don’t get it neither. The game itself, called The Thank You Game, is simple enough: to make players show more gratitude in their daily lives.

Get it here if it’s up your street. Kotaku has a video describing the game.

Thu, Jul 07, 2011 | 13:26 BST

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Thursday shorts: FFXIV, Jane McGonigal, every PS2 game under the sun

It’s Thursday, which means you’ve nearly passed the finishing line. You’re not there yet, but you’ve almost done it. Hang in there and read these shorts.

Sat, May 07, 2011 | 18:41 BST

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Study: Online gaming with family can improve communication

A study conducted by Cuihua Shen at the University of Texas and Dmitri Williams at the University of Southern California has suggested that online gaming can be healthy when you play with family or solkd you know.

Fri, Mar 11, 2011 | 21:36 GMT

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Friday Shorts: The Second – Shogun nuggets, The National in Portal 2, Mega Man 3, DNF Boobtube, sales

There’s tons of little stuff hitting the Internet to browse through, but because we love you so dearly, we’ve done the work for you. Now, where’s our thank you kiss? Ah, there it is. Good boys. You’ve been trained well.

Sat, Feb 05, 2011 | 21:11 GMT

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Saturday shorts: Dead Space 2 ad trouble, Angry Birds Super Bowl thing

Saturday is supposed to be a “day off”. Not in the world of relatively minor videogames news, it isn’t.

Thu, Mar 18, 2010 | 21:35 GMT

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Jane McGonigal feels gaming can save the world

Jane McGonigal

Jane McGonigal feels that through gaming, we can save the world and in order to do that, we need to go from spending 3 billion hours a week playing online games, to 21 billion hours a week gaming online.