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About Libe Goad
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Texas native Libe Goad resides in New York City and has spent the past decade covering technology and video games for publications including Blender, PC Magazine, Bust, Seventeen and Sync.
Libe is currently the Editor-in-Chief of AOL's award-winning Games.com group, covering the growing social and casual games industry. Previously, she reported on consumer technology news for PC Magazine and other Ziff Davis properties and was the Editor-at-Large for gaming enthusiast site HappyPuppy.com. In 1999, Goad founded the one of the first women-targeted gaming/technology websites, GameGal.com.
A semi-regular TV talking head on CNBC, Bloomberg News, ABC, CBS, NBC and others, Libe has been named one of the 50 Most Influential Games journalists by Next-Generation, and has served as a judge for Spike TV's VGA awards, the E3 Game Critics Awards, and Independent Games Festival Awards.
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Libe Goad
Texas native Libe Goad resides in New York City and has spent the past decade covering technology and video games for publications including Blender, PC Magazine, Bust, Seventeen and Sync.
Libe is currently the Editor-in-Chief of AOL's award-winning Games.com group, covering the growing social and casual games industry. Previously, she reported on consumer technology news for PC Magazine and other Ziff Davis properties and was the Editor-at-Large for gaming enthusiast site HappyPuppy.com. In 1999, Goad founded the one of the first women-targeted gaming/technology websites, GameGal.com.
A semi-regular TV talking head on CNBC, Bloomberg News, ABC, CBS, NBC and others, Libe has been named one of the 50 Most Influential Games journalists by Next-Generation, and has served as a judge for Spike TV's VGA awards, the E3 Game Critics Awards, and Independent Games Festival Awards.
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Google 'Zerg Rush' and let the game begin
If you head to Google today and search for 'Zerg Rush,' you’ll get the appropriate search results and soon find your page bombarded by an onslaught of 'O's that will eat away at your results.
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Green gaming for Earth Day
It’s hard to argue about the evils of gamification when it’s being used to inspire people and corporations to act responsibly, whether that’s to improve your waistline, learn basic...
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Gesture control -- from Kinect games to Samsung Smart TV
The first really major consumer hardware application for gesture control was Microsoft's Kinect. This high-tech camera accessory plugged into an Xbox 360 to add gesture and motion control, as...
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Nike Fuelband’s quest to 'turn every day into a game'
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Draw Something seems to be onto, well, something
Unless you've been hiding out under a rock (and even then) chances are you're at least aware of the hit new mobile/social game called Draw Something. From casual game-maker OMGPOP (now...
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Zombies, Run for iOS turns your workout into a real-life action adventure game
It doesn't matter where you run. It doesn't matter how fast you run. It doesn't matter how far you run. Just run. That’s the slogan for the new Zombies Run app for iOS, an adventure game of...
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BadgeVille rolls out gamification SDK for iOS, Android
If you’ve been thinking, “Hmm, how can I gamify my mobile apps?� -- BadgeVille purports to have the answer. Today, the company officially releases its Mobile Software Development Kit for...
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It's game on for iPads in NYC taxis
A recently approved proposal to allow iPads to be installed in NYC taxis offers some very interesting possibilities, putting what may be the world's most popular game-playing gadget potentially...
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Gamification Summit 2012 promises new 'inspirational format'
The conference entirely devoted to the topic of using game-like mechanics to enhance real life is back, and will be held in San Francisco June 19-21. The three-day conference, called The...
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Game makers play the Kickstarter game
Over the past week we’ve witnessed a fascinating phenomenon in games. Double Fine, a game developer run by lauded game maker Tim Schafer (Secret of Monkey Island, Psychonauts), asked fans to...
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Gamification: Still a bad word
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Gaming is still the Wild West, according to this ex Zynga programmer
In one of those rare, only-on-the-Internet moments, an anonymous former Zynga employee has opened the floodgates, speaking in great detail about his experiences, both good and bad. The...
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What's your Super Bowl gameplan?
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Trend alert: Hidden Object Games
Spending much of my time delving into the trends driving social and casual games, it's worth noting a slow-burn development that may be of use to gamification developers. The once lowly Hidden...
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If Microsoft is considering dropping points, shouldn't you?
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Why Pinterest is killing it, while your gamification lags
The best gamification ideas usually come from just outside the traditional game space (and typically not from gamification 'experts' who are too busy adding badges and points to everything...
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Xbox 360 mashes up games, live TV, social media, and more in a major update
New Xbox 360 dashboard software update further blurs the line between games, television, and social networking
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What gamification can learn from the holiday season's biggest games
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How will Facebook's newest changes affect gamification?
If you're at all interested in the world of social and casual games, and the gamification of social media, the stream of major and minor changes from Facebook over the past week or so has got...
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The Gamification Summit hits New York, September 15-16
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