News round-up
There are lots of interesting articles on games and business recently. A slightly older one is a BusinessWeek slideshow on 33 ways that game companies can make money from games, some of these methods are only relevant to game companies, but they offer interesting hints as to how game companies and other businesses can work together. A Swiss engineering company is using techiques right out of games to create compelling point-of-sale displays. Another article looks at the way some games tackle serious issues, ranging from tragedy to war, in an intellectual way. And, on the lighter side, humor site Something Awful imagines what business skills a few well-known games might advertise themselves as teaching.
