While many of us see sports as an important social activity and frown upon online gaming -- thinking it only promotes solitary behavior -- upon further examination it seems that there is much to be learned from gaming culture.
This famed ability for "war-gaming" politics, or thinking like a chess grand master, as one loyal MP describes it, which has carried Osborne from the bottom of the Tory party to the top of Government, appeared to desert the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Wednesday.
Joining IBM in the design of games for enterprise use, and online gaming that gets professionals thinking about sustainability issues, the Seattle startup, Novel Inc. released its own "social strategy MMO" in alpha earlier this year, Empire And State.
That got Anderson, a Chicago-bred Native American who made his fortune running reservation gaming concern Grand Casinos, thinking about expansion.
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"As someone who has dedicated a great deal of time and energy to writing and thinking about gaming, my hope is that we're moving to a time of more nuanced discussion.
The two co-founders were specifically thinking about platform gaming and their experiences as little more than fanboys in a nascent gaming community.
But Hoffman was playing with a set of ingredients that he had first explored at Stanford, with Thiel and others — fantasy gaming, computer technology, philosophy — and thinking about whether there was a big idea that could enable him to have a major effect on the world, first through a business and then through the creation of an entire social system.
This led to us thinking about whether gaming was a good environment to use for business collaboration.
When companies like Zynga release a new game and muster up some 6 million daily users in 8 days, it apparently gets other companies thinking about social gaming as well.
The devices interface is reminiscent of the PSP, and this clearly shows that Sony is thinking of more than gaming.
