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Joint RSS & PWS Team celebrates winning the prestigious Innovplus Awards 2023!
A team from Radiological Science Singhealth and Playware studios, lead by Dr Yu Wai-Yung won the prestigious Innovplus Flame award (the award comes with a grant of S$200K). The winning solution is aimed at improving the emergency preparedness …
Christine Chan
Jul 19, 20233 min read


Team from SGH & PWS win Innovplus award 2021 (Nov)
A joint team from SGH and PWS won the SGD 200,000 innvplus grant from inlab. The winning SGH Challenge Statement was : “We are looking for a learning solution that allows medical education to be delivered via an …
Christine Chan
Nov 30, 20212 min read


Singapore’s Top Award for Tech Innovation
We’re proud to have qualified as one of the finalists for Most Promising Innovation at Techblazer Awards 2020! Check out the video for our experience of participating last year. The Techblazer awards for 2021 are now accepting entries. If you’re interested to apply, join …
Christine Chan
Jun 28, 20211 min read


Singapore’s first Applied Games & VR Specialist Programme
The Metaverse refers to the multiple immersive and interactive virtual, augmented, and mixed realities that surround us today. The Metaverse is expanding at a phenomenal rate due to the proliferation of Applied Games. This is the application of …
Christine Chan
Feb 19, 20212 min read


3DHive is a Finalist in the SG TECHBLAZER Awards
Playware 3Dhive is one of the 11 Finalist in the Most Promising Innovation category. We were one of the 102 entities shortlisted for preliminary judging. Here is a list of the other finalists. About Techblazer SG:D Techblazer Awards …
Christine Chan
Dec 2, 20201 min read


Playware as the Serious Games & VR Solutions partner of iN.LAB
22 October 2020, Singapore – The Institute for Adult Learning (IAL), an autonomous institute of Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS), has announced its Five-Year Strategic Roadmap that charts the institute’s plans to transform Singapore’s Training and Adult …
Christine Chan
Oct 23, 20201 min read


Playware Remote Working Plan
In compliance with the Circuit Breaker announced by the Singaporean Government, Playware will continue operations online. Our Business Continuity Plans have prepared us for such an eventuality and our core business process and deliverables are not adversely impacted. …
Christine Chan
Apr 13, 20201 min read


SGH ranks in ‘Top 10 Hospitals in the World 2020’
Congratulations to our partner hospital, Singapore General Hospital for ranking in Newsweek’s Top 10 Hospitals in the World! Newsweek partnered with global data research company Statista Inc. to rank the leading hospitals in 21 countries. Methodology: The World’s Best …
Christine Chan
Mar 9, 20201 min read


Playware was at Deloitte Morning Pitch
The Deloitte SEA Innovation Team invited Playware Studios to present for the Morning Pitch 7th of February – it was a startup pitching event that happens every two months in Singapore. The theme for this February was Edutech. Each session, Deloitte invites 4-5 startups in a specific …
Christine Chan
Feb 19, 20201 min read


SGH & PWS Team win an award in the SIMS Games challenge 2019
A team consisting of Nurses from Singapore General Hospital, Ang Shin Yuh, Quek Li Ting, Ivy Goh Hui Qi, Nur Fidtria Binte Sahta, & Sean Padman Israfil McMenamin, Siddharth Jain, Paul de Leon from Playware Studios, won 3rd Prize in …
Christine Chan
Nov 2, 20191 min read


Playware at the Next Generation Content Fair in Busan
Playware Studios was invited by KOTRA to represent Singapore at the Next Generation Content Fair 2019 in Busan, South Korea. Showcasing Characters, Animations, Games, VR $ AR applications, Illustrations, Movies, and other creative media the show had 465 …
Christine Chan
Oct 5, 20191 min read


SKH & PWS Team win InnovPLUS Flame Grant 2019 worth $200,000
A Project Team from Sengkang General Hospital and Playware Studios was awarded the Innovplus 2019 Flame award which comes with a SGD 200,000 Prototype Development Grant. InnovPlus is an iN.LAB’s initiative to facilitate the rapid development of prototypes …
Christine Chan
Jun 14, 20191 min read


Oddbods Go-Kards funds successfully on Kickstarter!
Oddbods go-Kards – a card powered racing party board game, developed by Playware Hobbies, a subsidiary of Playware Studios, in collaboration with One Animation of Singapore. The game achieved its funding target of SGD 20K within the first week …
Christine Chan
Dec 4, 20181 min read


The Art & Science of Game-based Learning
Our Creative Director Siddharth Jain was invited to moderate a panel on “The Art & Science of Game-based Learning” at the In.LAB (at the Life Long Learning Institute) with Noah Falstein (Founder and CEO of the Inspiracy) and Asst. Prof Azilawati …
Christine Chan
Sep 30, 20181 min read


Case Method 2.0 has been accredited under the WSQ system!
Playware Studios is happy to announce that our Case Method 2.0 (Using Interactive Simulations for Corporate Training), Human Resources Specialist Diploma developed under collaboration with Malvern International Academy has been accredited under the Singapore Work Skills Qualifications framework. Case …
Christine Chan
Sep 11, 20182 min read


e::Volution (NYP eLearning event)
Playware was invited by the Nanyang Polytechnic Singapore to showcase our products and solutions at their e::Volution eLearning event. Playware’s Creative Director Siddharth Jain was also invited to give a talk at the event. The title of his talk was …
Christine Chan
Apr 12, 20181 min read


Know-what-is-what in Future Learning Tech
We are living in an exciting time for Learning Technologies. Amidst the global technology boom there are many new and emerging technologies that show promise for enhancing learner engagement and providing greater affordances for authentic learning. However, …
Christine Chan
Mar 6, 20187 min read


Leaders of Learning, Siddharth Jain interview
Our Creative Director, Siddharth Jain was recently interviewed about Game Based Learning on the Leaders of Learning. The Leaders of Learning is an online show about learning in the 21st century. Through interviews with leaders, entrepreneurs, educators, and many more, Ling …
Christine Chan
Feb 19, 20182 min read


Future Technology showcase at SDC 2018
Service Delivery Conference 2018. Was held on 31 Jan 2018 at Suntec City Convention. This year, the conference focused on using technology as a key enabler to deliver current and future public services. The hope was to inspire …
Christine Chan
Feb 3, 20182 min read


PWS VR, AR and MR Tech Showcase at SDC2018
The Service Delivery Conference 2018 organised by the Civil Service College of Singapore on the 31st of January at the Suntec City Convention Centre. Playware Studios showcased technologies and solutions utilising Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Mixed Reality as …
Christine Chan
Feb 1, 20184 min read
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