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EA Sports Seeks Ex-Football Players For Games Development Fellowship

11:30AM September 2, 2011 | Owen Good

EA Sports, in collaboration with the NCAA, will later this year begin offering paid fellowships to former college football players seeking experience in a games development or sports entertainment career. The players will work in the EA Tiburon studio, where the NCAA Football and Madden series are developed. More »

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

2:00AM May 20, 2011 | Mike Fahey

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. More »

In Real Life

How A Bad Degree Robbed A Stripper Of Her Video Game Love

7:00PM August 12, 2010 | Brian Ashcraft

Carrianne Howard studied game design. As Bloomberg previously reported, she ponied up US$70,000 for a “worthless” degree from a for-profit college. Howard not only lost $US70,000 on that bum degree, she also lost her love of video games. More »

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Teaching Girls How To Handle Peer Pressure About Sex

11:00PM July 29, 2010 | Brian Ashcraft

On July 26, University of Central Florida was awarded a $US434,800 National Institutes of Health grant to develop a game to promote abstinence among Latina school students, reports the Orlando Business Journal. More »

In Real Life

This Motorised Video Game Outruns All Comprehension

1:00PM March 12, 2010 | Owen Good

So, this guy gutted an Outrun arcade cabinet, jammed it on a go-kart and, in the name of university research, assembled a contraption that drives 24km/h in the real world while displaying it as an 8-bit virtual one. More »

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Dress Your Xbox Avatar In University Pride

2:40AM October 30, 2009 | Mike Fahey

Display your love for your favourite institute of higher learning with the Xbox Live Avatar Marketplace University Collection, as long as yours is one of the top 30 US Universities. More »

Libraries Got Game

8:00AM August 1, 2009 | Brian Crecente

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. More »

In Real Life

Utah Prof Backpedals, Says Study Doesn’t Prove Gaming Is Bad For You

12:00AM January 28, 2009 | Brian Crecente

The professor behind a study showing that video game playing only has negative outcomes on lifestyle, says that it doesn’t mean that video games are to blame.