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News

You Might Be Able To Finish High School In Just A Single Year

Sounds like an email spam subject line, I know, but it’s actually a claim made by Atari founder Nolan Bushnell.

August 12, 2011
Mobile

The Best Apps For Turning Your iPad Into An iPre-School

Kids and iPads are a better fit than you’d think — as long as those little hands are clean.

June 23, 2011
News

Gabe Newell Is Bringing Portal 2 To The Classroom

During his talk at the Games for Change festival today, Valve chief Gabe Newell mentioned that the company has begun working with schools to build a curriculum based on Portal 2. Check out our liveblog of the event for more.

June 21, 2011
In Real Life

Learn Physics The Angry Birds Way

I’m a bit of a physics hobbyist. That doesn’t mean that I understand or can even converse in the language of motion, but I love reading about it.

May 6, 2011
In Real Life

Kinectimals Creator Sets His Sights On Building The $25 PC

David Braben, whose Frontier Developments studio has delivered Elite, Rollercoaster Tycoon 3, LostWinds and, yes, Kinectimals, has now created Raspberry Pi. It’s not a game, it’s a working, Linux-based PC on something not much larger than a standard USB memory stick.

April 9, 2011
News

Study Finds 1980s Gamers Less Likely To Be University Graduates

A researcher at Oxford University queried adults who were 16 years old in 1986 and found a correlation between an interest in video gaming and a lower likelihood of going on to university.

April 4, 2011
PC

Teaching First-Graders With Minecraft

When his five-year-old daughter built a treehouse by herself in Minecraft, Joel Levin, a computer teacher at Manhattan’s Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School, got the idea to try incorporating the PC game into his lesson plan at school. He worried about numerous possibilities that the game would simply be incompatible with students that young, but he was relieved and gratified to discover he was wrong.

March 1, 2011
News

Today, 5 Million Kids Are Playing One Game

Right now, there are over five million kids from all corners of the globe taking part in an online game. One you may have never even heard of.

News

Make A Game, Help Stop Teen Dating Violence

Can you create a game about teen dating violence without using violence?

January 25, 2011
In Real Life

Over 800 Children Herded Together For Handheld Gaming

If anyone wonders what a gathering of 800 people playing the portable game consoles look like, it looks like this. Because that’s exactly what happened this week in Odawara City in Japan’s Kanagawa Prefecture.

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