The U.S. Army is funding improvements to a drunk driving game developed at the University of Calgary, in hopes of reducing what they say is a growing drunk driving problem among soldiers returning from war zones.
From the makers of Gas Attack, a pinball machine that teaches about flatulence, comes Urine the video game.
I sort of hope the Zero Punctuation knock-off dies a quick death, but reader Nathan M. sent us this video, which is based off an article by designer James Portnow. There’s nothing ground breaking here — the idea that educational games simply try too hard, while regular ‘fun’ titles can inspire learning without having to try and teach themselves is nothing new, but the video is certainly a lot more fun than the average essay. Nathan said, “I’m a 5th grade social studies teacher. I still like to play games as much as I can but I’ve always been disappointed with state of educational games. This gives the best explanation of this phenomena and the best approach to correcting it I’ve seen.”
Classic edutainment franchise Math Blaster is making it’s way to the DS this spring thanks to a publishing deal with Majesco Entertainment.
Math Blaster in the Prime Adventure combines adventure gaming with mathematical puzzles that has you fighting off an army of robots… robots with math skillz. The game will put your addition, subtraction and multiplication skills to the test and includes four player battle mode and challenge and adventure modes.
I applaud this, seriously. Just the other day, while attending a dinner with Ken Levine and some other folks during PAX, I got into a discussion with a group of them about educational games for next gen consoles.
I think that the three platform owners should get behind bringing a few educational games to their various downloadable game systems.
They should do this for two reasons.
