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EA Sports Seeks Ex-Football Players For Games Development Fellowship

11:30AM September 2, 2011 | Owen Good

EA Sports, in collaboration with the NCAA, will later this year begin offering paid fellowships to former college football players seeking experience in a games development or sports entertainment career. The players will work in the EA Tiburon studio, where the NCAA Football and Madden series are developed. More »

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Stay In School, Buy A Windows PC, And Get A Free Xbox 360

2:00AM May 20, 2011 | Mike Fahey

Microsoft wants U.S. high school, college, and university students to be productive, but not too productive. That’s why they’re giving away a free 4GB Xbox 360 to students purchasing a Windows 7 PC priced at $US699 or higher. More »

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Some College Kids Get To Play Portal For Class Credit

2:40AM May 19, 2011 | Joel Johnson

“Enduring Questions” is a mandatory class for freshmen at Wabash College. The syllabus? Gilgamesh, Aristotle, Goffman, Donne…and Portal. That’s because it’s taught by Michael “http://www.brainygamer.com/”>Brainy Gamer” Abbot, profiled in this piece by Patrick Klepek that’s certainly worth reading on Giant Bomb. More »

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More Than 250 Colleges Ask For The Crysis 2 Engine

6:00AM May 1, 2011 | Owen Good

For about a year, Crytek has offered universities a free licence to its CryEngine 3, the guts of this month’s big release, Crysis 2. Since it made the offer more than 250 universities have asked for the code, the studio reports. More »

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The Best Game Design Schools In North America

8:00AM March 2, 2011 | Mike Fahey

Looking to embark on a wondrous career in game design? GamePro Media and The Princeton Review have teamed up for a second year to list the 10 best graduate and undergraduate schools for video game design in North America. More »

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Back To School In The Mushroom Kingdom

11:30AM September 11, 2010 | Owen Good

Mural on the side of a student union building at the Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, Ohio, seen by reader Pat K. Two more views of the mural on the jump. More »

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University Of Florida Adds Starcraft Studies

9:30AM August 27, 2010 | Owen Good

Starcraft is being used to teach resource management skills in a new course offering at the University of Florida – but it’s only open to students in the honours college, and students have to have some familiarity with the game. More »

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A College Prank That Strikes Back

3:00PM June 4, 2010 | Brian Ashcraft

Carleton College’s Goodsell Observatory gets pranked. As seen on The Star Wars Blog via Albotas. More »

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College Parties These Days Are Like This?

12:00AM April 2, 2010 | Brian Ashcraft

As seen on UK:R. More »

NCAA Basketball 10 Review: Some Shining Moments

4:00AM November 23, 2009 | Owen Good

As the year’s last title in North America’s major team sports, NCAA Basketball 10 faces why-buy questions that NCAA Football and NBA Live just don’t. This year EA Canada seeks to answer them with two networks broadcasting from your living room. More »