A health game sleeper? One of the health game products I’ve been watching very closely is Zamzee. Not a whole lot has been written about this innovative new company yet, especially when one compares it to previous HopeLab products like Re-Mission. However, they have really geared up for an impressive...

Will the “Wii-killer” kill? Earlier this week Microsoft announced the 17 games it plans to release with its newest gadget, the controller-free Kinetic gaming system.  Not surprisingly the list includes several fitness-based titles and popular ones known for getting your heart pumping. Kinetic...

The ePatient Connections conference held in Philadelphia last month brought together advocates, professionals and speakers from various parts of the healthcare spectrum. Kevin Kruse of Kru Research began the event two years ago and it has since grown tremendously. One of the tracks during the conference...

When you think of videogames and kids, you naturally picture in your mind an overweight child with poor nutritional habits playing for hours without leaving the sofa or the desk chair.  In order to address this situation, many attempts have been made to combine videogames and activity. Exergaming There...

The popular area of development and consumerism that is exergaming, now becoming saturated with both successful and inferior products, reemerged in 2008 as a strategy for controlling obesity in children. Research in the late ‘90s that entailed observation of children watching television and playing...

I stumbled upon an amazing throwback article on Kotaku by Brian Ashcraft yesterday called “Have We Reached Exercise Game Saturation?“  Ok maybe not throwback–it was written last summer. Anyway, in it, a summary of the exergame movement along with a most memorable quote from Ben Sawyer. “When...

Exergames of the future. HardCORE Swimming is an Exertion Game prototype that combines the use of a Wii Fit balance board, Wii controller and nunchuk to swim through a shark-infested sea while collecting treasure.  In our last healthGAMERS interview we talked Floyd Mueller, an instructor at the University...

Australian Exertion Games take exergaming to the next level. I first found out about Floyd Mueller and his creative “Lecture 2130” at the University of Melbourne, Australia from the Games For Health listserve.   Mr. Mueller is doing some pretty amazing stuff with his computer game design...

Last week I got wind of some pretty cool activity going on over at the Wii Mommies site. The wonderful folks over there [remember our interview with Wii Mommy Julie?] have launched a contest that pulls together elements of reviewing, reporting and hands on interaction specifically for the Wii Fit Plus...

In the fall of last year, rumor had it that French company BigBen Interactive was “looking to cash in on the Wii exergaming craze while it lasts” with a project called Cyberbike.  The idea was greatly criticized because the proposed Cyberbike was literally a full-sized bike attachment. ...