http://www.fastcompany.com/tag/sims The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://www.fastcompany.com/articles/2008/07/serious-games.html <!--paging_filter--><p> Last month, the SimCity box set went on sale. It included five different versions of the popular city-building simulation game, which was first published for PCs in 1989. The Sims games were not only one of the best-selling franchises of the past two decades -- they pioneered an entire category of simulation games that require quicker problem-solving skills than trigger fingers. </p><p><a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/articles/2008/07/serious-games.html">read more</a></p> hilton hotels virtual games cisco safedock Sims video games Ultimate Team Play alcoa Ben Sawyer the binary game sim city gameplay Technology Careers Ethonomics Work/Life Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:00:05 -0400 Quibian Salazar-Moreno 940422 at http://www.fastcompany.com http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/melanie-brooks/maine-event/video-game-advertising <p> I found this interesting <a href="http://gawker.com/tag/advertising/?i=393898&amp;t=simulated-ads-sadden-our-simulated-lives" target="gawker">little tidbit</a> in Gawker yesterday. And this morning when I read in The Boston Globe that a <a href="http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp;jsessionid=3GSZVHZLW3VXACQJAFICFGAKBEAUMIWD?containerId=prUS21260308" target="idc">global marketing firm</a> predicted that Internet advertising will continue to grow despite economic woes I read the Gawker post again. </p> <p><a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/melanie-brooks/maine-event/video-game-advertising">read more</a></p> Sims Internet advertising IKEA Innovation Technology Fri, 30 May 2008 10:40:32 -0400 Melanie Brooks 873919 at http://www.fastcompany.com