Games for Change is happy to announce the 2009 Sixth Annual Games for Change Festival to be held in New York City May 27 - 29!

The opening keynote is author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times.

Other featured speakers include James Paul Gee, Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Chair in Literacy Studies at Arizona State University; Seth Scheisel, New York Times game critic; Tracy Fullerton, Director of the Electronic Arts Game Innovation Lab and author of Game Design Workshop: A Playcentric Approach to Designing Innovative Games; Eric Zimmerman, CEO of Gamelab and author of Rules of Play; Mary Flanagan, Director of the Tiltfactor Lab; Ian Bogost, CEO of Persuasive Games and author of Unit Operations: An Approach to Videogame Criticism; Heather Chaplin, journalist (NPR, NYT) and author of Smart Bomb, and many others.

Back by popular demand is the 101 Workshop on May 27 for those new to making social issue games. And this year it will feature the first-ever Newsgame Award at the Expo Night on May 28th, sponsored by the Knight Foundation. And as always, we'll have expert panels, provocative lunch discussions, and ample networking opportunities.

For more information, please see the festival web site: http://gamesforchange.org/fest2009