Jane McGonigal’s +20 Crazy Idea

The counter-balance to yesterday’s insane video, this is game developer Jane McGonigal’s TEDTALK. It’s absolutely brilliant. Key take-aways: Gamers have spent 5.93 million years (collectively) playing WoW and solving its problems. By 21, the average kid in a country with a strong gaming culture will have spent 10,000 hours playing games (read Outliers for why …

WoW WTF…

Though I consider myself a gamer (I’ve got an afternoon of Neverwinter Nights planned for today) and have played most all of Blizzard’s early stuff, I never got into WoW. It appears I’ve been missing out. I have no idea what a “guild” is, but this is the most amusing thing I’ve seen in a …