On Oct. 31, the Serious Games Summit gets underway in Washington D.C. Its sole focus: To bring together the computer gaming industry with other experts from various fields for more than just a good time. —Beyond ‘Flinch and Twitch’ Games (Cybershake)

Thanks to some (partial) funding from SHU, I’ll be going to this event. My students were crushed when I told them I was cancelling most of my classes Monday and Tuesday.

(There’s a Monday class that meets for just one hour a week, and I’m going to let the students run that class themselves.)