http://www.psfk.com Your Go-To Source For New Ideas And Inspiration Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:15:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.psfk.com/2011/11/gaming-for-good.html Mon, 21 Nov 2011 19:10:25 +0000 A recent conference with both academics and hardcore gamers in attendance discusses the untapped potential in the gaming community to use those practices to affect social change.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/11/first-ever-videogame-uses-real-time-tweets-to-create-gameplay.html Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:23:52 +0000 PSFK spoke about the Future Of Gaming with the founders of Tweetland, a game that uses experiences reported on Twitter to create in-game content.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/08/chinas-fake-world-of-warcraft-theme-park.html Tue, 02 Aug 2011 11:33:16 +0000 After the phoney Apple stores comes a theme park based on the popular online game.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/07/fourcraft-foursquare-hack-turns-nyc-into-a-battlefield.html Tue, 05 Jul 2011 16:19:24 +0000 A new element has been added to the location-based social network turning it into an interactive gaming platform.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/06/researchers-predict-online-gamers-behavior-in-world-of-warcraft.html Fri, 17 Jun 2011 12:00:24 +0000 Researchers from NCSU have developed a way of predicting what a player will do next, with up to 80% accuracy.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/05/planking-comes-to-world-of-warcraft.html Tue, 24 May 2011 23:00:27 +0000 The 'lying down game' craze seems to have gained a new lease of life in video gaming. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/04/pioneering-a-passive-path-through-online-gaming.html Wed, 13 Apr 2011 11:53:04 +0000 Several instances of 'playing outside the box' in online gaming environments point the way to rewarding experiences beyond traditional game mechanics.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/04/regulation-will-always-play-catch-up-to-the-computers-rules.html Mon, 11 Apr 2011 12:06:46 +0000 The problem of how to run business models in a world of digital savants, hackers and maker culture is a fraught one. Cory Doctorow provides an important reflection on the root causes of this issue.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/04/could-facebook-credits-work-as-a-real-world-currency.html Thu, 07 Apr 2011 11:00:29 +0000 The Purple List, PSFK's network of experts, considers the future of virtual currency.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/08/video-machinima-highlights-the-plight-of-chinese-world-of-warcraft-players.html Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:49:25 +0000 A film offers insight into tensions between gamers and social and political codes in China.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/07/why-empowering-communities-is-a-good-idea.html Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:42:58 +0000 World of Warcraft users will not have to post under their real names in its forums. How could Blizzard have handled it better?]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/07/real-life-versus-the-internet-the-importance-of-anonymity.html Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:31:26 +0000 Recent developments have users up in arms about privacy policies on social networks and online games.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/02/chinese-satirical-machinima-movie-more-popular-than-avatar.html Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:56:18 +0000 With 10 million people watching the movie in the first week of its release, a machinima film may prove to be more popular than Avatar in China.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/02/rewarding-online-gamers-for-eco-friendly-behavior.html Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:35:28 +0000 Is there a way to harness the popularity of multiplayer online gamers to save energy in the real world ?  Professor Byron Reeves, a media expert at Stanford University, thinks there is.  The scenario that Reeves imagines is that a player would get in-game feedback from a smart meter which tracks energy usage throughout the player’s house in order to reward the player online.  For example, if you turn off a light in an unused room, your house’s smart meter recognizes this and your online player is rewarded accordingly. The trick is making sure that the game designers find aRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2008/12/wow-job-distraction-or-job-training.html Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:26:12 +0000 With the number of World of Warcraft players estimated at more than 11 million worldwide, the internet game is a bona fide sensation that can no longer be said to simply cater to a small hardcore fan base.  As its popularity continues to grow, we’re seeing this online phenomenon spilling over into real world. There are enterprising gamers who sell their hard fought virtual loot on sites like eBay, dating sites that cater to the game’s far flung community and even a WoW-themed restaurant that opened recently in China, but the NY Times points us to the burgeoning debate overRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2008/12/world-of-warcraft-themed-restaurant-opens-in-beijing.html Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:00:33 +0000 If you walk into any Internet bar in China, you are sure to see a large number of the screens filled with scenes from the extremely popular MMORPG World of Warcraft (WoW).  The game has attracted over 1 million peak concurrent users in China and makes up more than 90 percent of the earnings for The9, the game’s China licensee. Given the games popularity, an entrepreneur has opened a WoW-themed restaurant in Beijing to cater to its considerable number of fans.  The entrance is a re-creation of the opening animation from the game, walls are covered with WoW images andRead more...]]>