A Look Inside Serious Games
Our man Dan Rosenthal is at the Game Developers Conference and filed this report from a lecture he attended last night:
The Serious Games Summit at GDC closed out its first day with a sobering presentation from Allan McCullough and Parry Aftab entitled “Violence Prevention — Playing A Video Game Can Make A Difference.” Sponsored by the Child Safety Research and Innovation Center, the session explained that while games often get criticized as being too violent, the games industry can actually work to lessen the real-world effects of violence and abuse against children through serious games.
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