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Should leaders play games?
An eight-month study on leadership in games, commissioned by IBM, found that online games can be informal but realistic simulators for contemporary leadership training, helping to teach “soft” aspects of leadership. For example, the pace of games means that leaders often have to make hundreds of strategic decisions in an hour of game play. The relatively mild consequences of failure allow players to test out a variety of leadership techniques and the temporary nature of many roles in games provides people who are followers in the real world with opportunities to lead. — Times Online, UK

The rise of social gaming
Online social games might be multiplayer games that you can play with friends on your favorite social network. But some companies are looking to those free casual games as being a core component of something bigger — and a revenue-generating business, too. Companies like Mytopia and J2Play are building communities around the games, and spanning multiple social networks, which means that you can play games or issue challenges to your friends across different networks. — Computerworld