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Minecraft Is Successfully Replacing Chemistry Lessons In Schools
When you combine two items correctly in Minecraft, it makes a new item – a bit like chemistry. So it isn’t surprising really that a modded version of the game is successfully being used to replace certain elements of chemistry lessons in schools. Students are inadvertently learning traditionally tricky topics such as polymer synthesis (making…
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How Video Games Could Become Australia’s Next Clean Export
Innovative, technology-based and packed with “jobs of the future”, Australia’s video game industry has the potential to drive our next big “clean” export. Global revenue for games is expected to reach $US98 billion in the next two years. In the last financial year, 81 per cent of Australia’s game development industry income came from overseas…
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The Ocarina Of Time Soundtrack Is Coming To Vinyl
Hero of Time is a one hour arrangement based on Koji Kondo’s score to The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Officially licensed, and recorded by the 64-player Slovak National Symphony Orchestra, Hero of Time promises to “breathe new life” into the classic Ocarina of Time score – on vinyl!
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You Can Raise Money For AIDS Research By Playing Mobile Games
In honour of World AIDS Day, Apple is supporting global charity (RED) for the tenth year running in its fight to end AIDS. For the next week, a range of the most popular games across the App Store are offering limited-edition, custom (RED) content, and all proceeds from the associated in-app purchases go to the…