It is with bitter sweetness that I inform you of my resignation as editor of the healthGAMERS blog. I have accepted a new position with the world-renowned Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke’s Episcopal Health System and will be leaving my position as Director of Marketing for Archimage. Today, March...

American Journal of Preventive Medicine reports on randomized clinical trial American Journal of Preventative Medicine, Elsevier: San Diego, CA, December 7, 2010 – Obesity in youngsters has risen dramatically in recent decades. Fruit and vegetable (FV) consumption and increased water intake can lower...

The novel Nanoswarm: Invasion From Inner Space was published today, a work based on the NIH-funded multi-million dollar health game of the same name.  Nanoswarm is a first person, role-playing videogame adventure in healthy eating and exercise.  The game is designed to change nutrition and physical...

Get out the grill. At the core of every health game should be great content; there should be real meat there.  And appropriately so, Great Game Tenet #3 is: a great health game has great substance.  Some would say this is easy since, for the most part, health games have a learning or behavior-changing...