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Are Social Media Games Reaching Market Saturation?

Social media is a fickle industry, and long-term success requires near-constant innovation and commitment. Yet social media games from titans like Zynga are drawing in millions of users while remaining fundamentally unchanged.

Could social gaming be in for its own version of the dot com bubble of the 2000's? Pixels and Policy investigates the risk of saturation in the growing social gaming market.

Second Life Hosts 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence

In one of our first articles, Pixels and Policy took a look at how virtual worlds can play an important role in community interaction by providing a cheap, accessible forum for discussion.

Now Second Life activists are strengthening our argument as they participate in the Rutgers University "16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence" campaign.

Pixels and Policy takes a look at how gender activism is thriving in the Metaverse.

Are Virtual Worlds Sabotaging Interpersonal Relationships?

Somewhere in the past few years, perhaps with the success of the Nintendo Wii, a paradigm shifted in how the general public viewed online game enthusiasts.

No longer are they the love handled basement dwellers of Dungeons and Dragon lore.

No, the pendulum now decrees that gamers are a heterogeneous group of men and women, married and single, productive members of society and deadbeats. Pixels and Policy looks at how perceptions of gamers are changing.

Augmented Reality Comes to Interactive Gaming

We've reported on how augmented reality has the potential to increase our efficiency and make us smarter consumers, but there's been precious little about how data overlays can make our lives more fun.

DigitalBeat has a great story on how one augmented reality company is turning the world around you into the biggest online game ever.

Pixels and Policy investigates.

Expresso Exercise Bike Integrates Online Gaming Technology

Companies have been seeking ways to make exercise fun for years.

Now virtual worlds are providing the exercise-wary with virtual worlds to engage both body and mind.

Pixels and Policy takes a look at how exercise is getting some positive P.R. through the implementation of virtual world technology.