Magy Seif El-​​Nasr

Northeastern’s grad­uate campus in Seattle hosted an event last Wednesday fea­turing experts from acad­emia and industry who dis­cussed how to expand the capa­bility and breadth of video games that make a soci­etal impact in areas like health and education.

Magy Seif El-​​Nasr, an asso­ciate pro­fessor of game design and inter­ac­tive media, dis­cussed the impor­tance of cre­ating video games in a White House meeting last week

Microsoft, cre­ator of the Xbox Live — an online mul­ti­player video gaming and dig­ital media delivery ser­vice — has announced it would offer main­stream tele­vi­sion pro­gram­ming to its sub­scribers, cre­ating direct com­pe­ti­tion with tra­di­tional cable ser­vices. Magy Seif El-​​Nasr, asso­ciate pro­fessor of game design and inter­ac­tive media with joint appoint­ments in the Col­lege of Arts, Media and Design and the Col­lege of Com­puter and Infor­ma­tion Sci­ence at North­eastern, explains the new fea­tures and how they might impact tra­di­tional cable offerings.