They’re not just playing for fun: they are raising money for Child’s Play, a gamer-created, gamer-supported charity that fulfills the wish lists of over 60 hospital’s children’s units worldwide. Each donation buys the games, the consoles and the movies that bring a little bit of fun into an otherwise gruelling hospital experience.

Superb reads around understanding where we’re at: philosophically, physiologically and practically with games.
<< Dive into my current bookmarks on games. Bits on game design, pervasive gaming, blended-reality games played on the streets, how gaming shapes our brains. If you’re amazed that games can command their own economies – with global heft or that mainstream business, government, the military or medicine has moved into the realm of serious games. Play has potency.

Grey (matter) is the new black should you be looking to define your mark in a world wallowing in the happy shallows.
 
The revelation of our time, that our cerebral stuff isn’t sculpted and set early, but bendy and plastic throughout our lives, has opened a new realm of ways to stretch our brain cells out of the grasp of entropy.
 
There are a host of chemical hacks, from psychiatric drugs like Ritalin or Xanax, to street drugs that can force the brain to comply, buttressing …