A word from the editor. We are honored to present our newest guest contributor, Amy Jussel, Founder and Executive Director of Shaping Youth.  She has been a huge advocate of the games for health movement with numerous articles on Playnormous and now healthGAMERS. We are honored to have her!   -Melanie...

Live the experience, learn the truth, change the future. Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment was honored this past week by the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria for its efforts in the fight against the African AIDS epidemic with its new health game Pamoja Mtaani. ...

Can this new report change the field? For those even remotely interested in health games, the newest report from the Joan Ganz Cooney Center, “Game Changer: Investing in digital play to advance children’s learning and health,” is a must read.  The basic conclusion of the report is...

Walk and conquer. In my last post I gave you a quick peek at how Nintendo plans on keeping kids fit with a Pokémon pedometer peripheral for the DS.  For those of you a little older than twelve, take a look at what Bandai is cooking up.  Their approach?  Add one part pedometer to one part calorie...

Ah, spring and summer – the seasons where we fight with pollen, grass and any other triggers to cause our eyes to water and our noses to erupt in a string of sneezes. Fortunately for me, allergies aren’t too much of a problem but for many of  you who that’s the opposite, you’ll...

Remember what I mentioned regarding the importance of competition for health innovation? Well the good folks over at Humana are definitely aware of this and have recently unveiled a new competition focused on healthy gaming. No strangers to the health games arena, the Humana and their Insert Coin challenge...

Powerfully healthy pocket monster. The Pokémon craze is still alive and well, but this time all those little monsters are fighting for a good cause.  Nintendo hopes to encourage children to get up and move with the new Pokémon release of Heart Gold and Soul Silver for the DS complete with Poké Walker...

Today, most of the health games, whether they are made for children or for adults, are based on digital drawings. The main character could be a representation of the player, i.e. an avatar, or a small figure like an animal or a monster. These games often are centered around an assigned mission for the...

With the Games for Health Conference 2009 in Boston just a few days away, I decided it might be a fun idea to interview a few of this year’s hot speakers.  Case in point, Laura Fay, CEO of the very successful brain training website HAPPYneuron.  I was able to catch Laura this weekend on her way...

Some time ago, Bob Coffield of the Health Care Law Blog, brought to my attention a project that was going on in his home state of West Virginia. Since the launch of the pilot activity in 2004, West Virginia University (WVU) has been implementing a program to help put DDR (Dance Dance Revolution) into...