edutainment
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The Very First Harry Potter Game Was A Weird LEGO Joint
Long-running video game franchises all have to start somewhere, and it’s not always pretty. Looking back to that origin point can show us not just how the greats began, but how far they’ve come since. Today we unearth the very first Harry Potter video game.
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Remember Putt-Putt? Pajama Sam? Freddi Fish? They’re Coming To Steam
Some had the Atari 2600. Others grew up with Mario and the NES. But for a lot of young, budding PC gamers, there were Humongous Entertainment’s quirky and colourful edutainment titles. Now, these classic adventure games are making their way to Steam.
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MinecraftEdu Distributes The Building Blocks Of Games-Based Education To Classrooms Everywhere
Joel Levin at the Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School in the US used popular indie block building game Minecraft as a learning tool for his second grade computer class. Now he’s a part of the newly-launched MinecraftEdu, a program dedicated to spreading Minecraft-based learning to classrooms around the world.
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Game Will Terrify Your Kids Into Never Going Outside Again
Spring has returned in the north, a time when children across the country turn off their video game consoles and venture out into the woods, building tree forts and rolling about in the underbrush. That is, until they play Tick Tackler. Then they’re never going outside again.