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. ...

The research. The American Council on Exercise (ACE) is a 25-year-old nonprofit dedicated to promoting the benefits of physical activity and protecting consumers against unsafe and ineffective health and fitness products, programs and trends.  They have done extensive research on exercise regiments...

Last week marked the culmination of another Health 2.0 conference put on by Matthew Holt of The Health Care Blog and Indu Subaiya. This was my second time at the event and it was truly an overflow of information regarding patient empowerment and improving technologies to better health care. As a public...

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...

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...

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...