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ESA: Today Is A “Very, Very Good Day” For The Gaming Industry
11:00AM Stephen Totilo | Video game developers can be the new astronauts, a beacon that inspires schoolchildren to love learning science and math, the head advocate for the gaming industry in the U.S., told Kotaku today, as he described President Obama’s breakthrough education announcement. More »
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Obama And LittleBigPlanet Team Up, For Kids
3:52AM Stephen Totilo | The White House is announcing today a program to improve science and maths education with a variety of initiatives including a program backed by Sony to put LittleBigPlanet in libraries and a $US300,000 game-design challenge. More »
Culture
Rockstar Presents: Music Lessons For Schoolkids
9:30PM Luke Plunkett | Music students at New York City’s East Side Community High School are throwing out their guitars, pianos and cowbells, with one program at the school instead teaching kids with PSPs and copies of Rockstar’s Beaterator. More »
Culture
Libraries Declare National Gaming Day
12:00AM Luke Plunkett | This Saturday, November 14, has been set aside by libraries across the US as “National Gaming Day”. But don’t think it’s got to do with bowing at the altar of consumer entertainment. Oh no. It’s to do with history. More »
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12:00PM David Wildgoose | You’re going to feel ill playing this. You’ll feel particularly nauseous if you’re eating at the same time. Consider yourself warned. More »
LunchTimeWaster: This Is Disgusting
12:00PM David Wildgoose | You’re going to feel ill playing this. You’ll feel particularly nauseous if you’re eating at the same time. Consider yourself warned. More »
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ESA Report: More Than 250 Colleges Offer Game Degrees
6:00AM Owen Good | More than 50 game development programs have been added to US colleges’ curricula in the past year, bringing to 254 the number of universities offering degrees in video game design, programming and art, according to the Entertainment Software Association. More »
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9:00AM David Wildgoose | The Australian Film Radio and Television School is now taking applications for a 2010 course in Games & Virtual Worlds. More »
Australian Film School Offers Games Course For 2010
9:00AM David Wildgoose | The Australian Film Radio and Television School is now taking applications for a 2010 course in Games & Virtual Worlds. More »
Culture
UC-Irvine Establishes Games Research Center
6:00AM Owen Good | The University of California-Irvine, already home to a game culture lab, has established the centre for Computer Games & Virtual Worlds. Twenty faculty members from the university’s computer science, humanities, education and other departments will collaborate on its work. More »
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1:00PM David Wildgoose | This Sunday, the Academy of Interactive Entertainment is holding its annual open day. Students thinking about a career in game development would do well to drop by. More »
Students, Want To Learn What It’s Like To Make Video Games?
1:00PM David Wildgoose | This Sunday, the Academy of Interactive Entertainment is holding its annual open day. Students thinking about a career in game development would do well to drop by. More »
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