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Introducing the European Serious Games Awards! (Blog post)

The European Serious Games Awards aim to celebrate the best videogames for learning created in Europe. We will rely on scientific evaluation of the submitted games in order to award prizes not only to the best Serious Games, but also to the best academic works in the field. The Awards Ceremony will take place during the VS-Games 2012 Conference in Genoa, Italy, on October 30th 2012.  *Prizes* Each winner of one the 4 European Serious Games Awards will be rewarded by the following cash priz [...]

Keywords : serious games, awards, europe

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Book chapter: Origins of Serious Games (Blog post)

We wrote an article about the historical origins of "Serious Games", which get published by Springer in the book "Serious Games and Edutainment Applications" a few months ago. We first review the historical definitions of the "Serious Games" oxymoron. We then explore the history of videogames in search of the first "Serious Games", that actually appeared before the first entertainment videogames...   This book gathers several scientific articles ded [...]

Keywords : serious games, history

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