Here are a few links to stories and videos about the social power of video games, gamification, social gaming and “newsgames”:

• Games for Change, organization and conference
• “The Social Gaming Boom,” BC Business
• Jane McGonigal, “Gaming can make a better world” and Reality Is Broken
• “Game theories,” Clive Thompson, The Walrus
• “Gamification” and “Gamifying Education” and “Video Games and Learning,” from Extra Credits
• Portraits of gamers, by Phillip Toledano
• Miguel Sicart, “Newsgames: Theory and Design”
• Game-o-Matic (beta)
• Ian Bogost et al, Newsgames: Journalism at Play and excerpt
• “Video-Game Training and Naïve Reasoning About Object Motion,” by MICHAEL E. J. MASSON*, DANIEL N. BUB and CHRISTOPHER E. LALONDE, Department of Psychology, University of Victoria
• Game development wisdom from #OneGameAMonth