In Real Life

High School Sucked. Can We Please Have More Games About It?

For most people, high school sucked. This is pretty much a given at this point, right? The endless questioning and self-doubt, the lack of control over your own schedule, dealing with the impossible mysteries of the opposite sex while navigating the often treacherous shoals of what amounted to a four year, walled-in social experiment. Yeah, high school sucked.


May 20, 2011
Xbox

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

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.


May 29, 2010
In Real Life

High School Swaps Out Textbooks For iPads

When the students of St. Catherine’s High School’s new middle school program arrive next year, they’ll be sporting shiny new iPads instead of textbooks, giving students plenty of games to play while they should be learning, until they get stolen.


May 5, 2010
In Real Life

Game Boy Used In High School Bomb Scare

A Nintendo Game Boy and a mobile phone made up a bomb-like device that caused the evacuation of a Florida Panhandle high school yesterday.


January 21, 2010
News

EA Sports Now Taking Nickname Suggestions For NCAA Football

Kotaku’s in-depth pursuit of how and why NCAA Football 10 recognises weird created-team nicknames – like Fightin’ Planets, Ingots and Orange Psychos – created enough fan reaction that EA Sports is accepting new nickname submissions through an official forum thread.


January 1, 2010
In Real Life

NCAA Football — Where My High School’s Name Is In The Game

At my high school – among the smallest in North Carolina – we aren’t known as the “Rams” or the “Cardinals.” We’re “The Buckin’ Elks.” And Brad Nessler says that name – all of it – in NCAA Football 10.


July 3, 2009
In Real Life

The Video Game Yearbook

When I graduated from High School I didn’t do anything worthy of compliment or insult. Not true of our favourite video game characters.