My interest in serious games/meaningful play, and games in second language education in general has grown over the past few years, so I figured I’d start putting together this collection of useful resources I come across on the subject. Hopefully this will grow big enough that I can start compiling something more concrete and useful somewhere along the line.

Videos

Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world
Tom Chatfield: 7 ways games reward the brain
Ian Bogost on Serious Games
Sebastian Deterding – Meaningful Play: Getting Gamification Right
James Paul Gee on Video Games, Learning, and Literacy
ExtraCreditz: Video Games and Learning
Sequelitis : Mega Man Classic vs. Mega Man X (Warning: NSFW due to adult language)
The Creativity of Indie Video Games
Is Minecraft the Ultimate Educational Tool? | Idea Channel | PBS

Articles

World of Borecraft
Serious Games Seek Slice Of Health-Care Market

Websites

Games2Teach
Felix Kronenberg: Browser Games for Language Learning

Examples

Magicians: A Language Learning RPG
That Translation Game!