“Xbox is My Generation’s Golf” – The future of Gaming?

Latitude 42 conducted some research into the future of gamers and gaming. There was definitely some interesting findings, including the move away from ‘computer-centric games to games in which the users environment becomes the game board and this notion of ‘life games’. 75% of respondents would like to see games applied to Learning and Education.

The Future of Gaming: a Portrait of the New Gamers from latddotcom on Vimeo.

For more information on this study check out Latitude’s brief report or website.

Making Wedding Invitations More Exciting!

So I imagine so of you have attempted to plan a wedding or help out that best friend on some of those most important decisions in the process. Yet many brides would find themselves bomarded with horrible frilly paper, gordy motifs and cheezy lovey-dovey cliches. A German couple have avoided this situation completely, by making a short 8-bit video game invitation. This is some creative genius! The invitees need to win the game order to get the wedding details.

A clip of the invite can be found here.

So what do you think, creative genius or just geeky stunt?