Best game of 2007

Since its nearly Christmas we should join with all of those other sites in voting for our favourite games (you can vote for more than one game) of 2007. I can add other games if your favourite isn't here.

IFIP Entertainment Computing Symposium (ECS-2008)

Call for Papers for the 1st IFIP Entertainment Computing Symposium, "New Frontiers for Entertainment Computing": http://cs.unibo.it/~ifip2008gamestrack/ 

E-learning and Games conference

Edutainment 2008 - its in China though which could be difficult funding-wise.

Megabucks in Metaplace

As some of you know I'm interested in Metaplace as a possible game engine for research and teaching. There is a post up on the Metaplace website today about currency. Effectively they are going to have a similar model to Second Life where you can buy Megabucks with real money and use the virtual money to create things that you may charge for - then potentially turn the virtual cash back into real pocket money.

Is it acceptable for our students to make money from their coursework (even if it's unlikely) or projects? Perhaps it's more problematic for staff to be making personal gains from work that may be tied into research work? Maybe I should keep any work that I may do on Metaplace strictly to the weekends in case I start to make a fortune ;-)

HCI conference call

Could be useful to some of our researchers:

http://www.hci2008.org/