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May 10, 2006
Microsoft Live Anywhere - Gaming Across Platforms Launched & Why You Should Care
Today Bill Gates visited E3 for the first time to launch a new service called Live Anywhere which will enable game play across Xbox, Windows Vista and mobile phones. This scenario was described at last year's Game Developer Conference that got me excited thinking how great it would be not only be able to play the same game with the same characters on the move, but to also be able to chat about the games across platforms as well. This highlights a few trends we've been discussing recently; games being a significant part of our culture (and at $30 billion, our economy), mobile gaming is growing in popularity across gender and age groups, instant messaging across platforms is becoming an expected way of communicating and collaborating, and networked game play is rapidly growing (Xbox live will double from 3 million to 6 million players in one year). The implications for learning are significant when you consider how our expectations of collaborating and accessing what we want (anytime, anywhere, any device) will continue to shift as enabling technology makes it easier and sticky games make it fun!
Posted by Ron Edwards at May 10, 2006 08:34 PM
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