News

Tunisia, Egypt And Libya Look To Computer Games To Help Stabilise The Region

Think of it as a very specialised version of SimCity; one that replaces UFOs, monster attacks and city-flattening meteors with political unrest and economic upheaval; and replaces charming tiny animated people with real-time charts and in-person advisers.


October 21, 2011
News

A Secret To Fighting Parkinson’s Disease? Play A Video Game

Video games might be the key to fighting off some of the debilitating symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease, according to research results released this week.


July 26, 2011
News

Russian President Suggests Warcraft Ripoff To Teach History

First Russian President Dimitri Medvedev joined Twitter. Next he visited Twitter and Apple HQs. Now he’s suggesting that someone make a World of Warcraft knock-off to teach about his country’s history.


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.


June 4, 2010
News

"Grace’s Diary" Educates About, Explores Teen Dating Violence

Grace’s Diary has players work there way through an interactive story, working to discover what happened to Grace and, perhaps, learning the danger signs of Teen Dating Violence.


March 19, 2010

Playing Political Games

In a large theatre at the 2010 Game Developers Conference, 10,000 game makers gathered for the Independent Games Festival and Game Developers Choice awards ceremonies, where the best indie and mainstream games of the year are celebrated by and for their creators. In between the two, an unusual video was shown. Aneesh Chopra, the United States’s first Chief Technology Officer, made an unusual address to the game development community.


August 1, 2009

Libraries Got Game

There are, perhaps, few more disconsonant scenes than of the austere silence of the library and the boisterous play of video games, but a growing movement is starting to put the two under one roof.


March 6, 2009
In Real Life

Librarians Explain: Why Video Games At the Library

Why exactly should libraries carry video games? Or music or movies for that matter? Don’t get me wrong, I’m a big fan of free gaming, but I can’t help but question the increasing multimedia nature of libraries.


January 22, 2009
News

Wii Fit Helps Paralysed Girl Walk Again

A 10-year-old girl left paralysed by a virus four years ago is learning to walk again thanks to her doctors and a copy of Wii Fit, the Herald.ie reports.


January 3, 2009
Uncategorized

Urine The Video Game: Clicking And Dragging To A Healthy Tinkle

From the makers of Gas Attack, a pinball machine that teaches about flatulence, comes Urine the video game.