Along with the usual news and excitement of the Game Developers Conference, going on this week in San Francisco, a speech by gaming guru Jane McGonigal stands out for one reason: She challenged game ...

Video game designer Jane McGonigal and political group MoveOn.org have teamed up to create a video game, SwingVoter Go, aimed at defeating Donald Trump in the presidential election. After the events ...

AUSTIN, Texas--Game designers may be the professionals best suited to help humans find happiness in the future. That was the thesis of world-famous alternate-reality game designer Jane McGonigal's ...

One of the world's leading designers of alternate-reality games tells CNET News.com about how her new Olympics-themed project came to be and what players can learn from it. Daniel Terdiman is a senior ...

As addictive as Tetris, McGonigal's penetrating, entertaining look into gaming culture is a vibrant mix of technology, psychology, and sociology, told with the vision of a futurist and the deft touch ...

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Jane McGonigal, PhD is a world-renowned designer of alternate reality games or, games that are designed to improve real lives and solve real problems. She believes game designers are on a humanitarian ...

Wired Science is heading to AAAS (it's a science conference) this weekend. While there, its army of bloggers is embarking on an "Ask a Scientist" project. You ask questions, Wired gets them answered.

Jane McGonigal, PhD is a world-renowned designer of alternate reality games or, games that are designed to improve real lives and solve real problems. She believes game designers are on a humanitarian ...