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Ian Livingstone opening school to “train kids today for jobs that don’t yet...
Eidos life president Ian Livingstone is looking to found a free-school in London’s Hammersmith borough in which to teach children with the core skills of science, technology, engineering, art and...
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Epic Games and Staffordshire University partner to form the Epic Games Centre
Epic Games has announced a partnership with Staffordshire University to form the Epic Games Centre, a fully equipped space for students enrolled in the university’s games design courses. The agreement...
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VG247 Scotland issue #2: Educating Scotland
VG247 Scotland continues with a look at the nation’s game development courses, the wealth of careers to be found within the industry, and all your regular news and updates from across the country....
View ArticlePlayStation First opens Europe’s largest teaching lab in Scotland
Sony has today opened a teaching lab comprised of PlayStation consoles within Abertay University’s campus in Dundee, Scotland. It is the largest teaching lab of its type in Europe, giving game...
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Off the Map competition challenges students to develop entries using Crytek’s...
Off the Map is a competition hosted by Crytek, the British Library and Nottingham Trent University’s annual GameCity festival, in which students will create a videogame enty using CryEngine technology....
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It changed the world: a small game jam with big heart
Game jams are a great showcase for budding talent, and the inaugural Moray Game Jam was no exception. Dave Cook travelled to the Scottish city of Elgin to help judge the event and came away inspired by...
View ArticleAIAS offering video game scholarships for both creative and business areas
The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) has announced it’s accepting applications for scholarships pertaining to video game design. Applicants planning on a career in the gaming industry...
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Brenda Romero awarded Fulbright Fellowship to work with Ireland’s game industry
Brenda Romero has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to work with Ireland’s game industry and its educational institutions. “When I read the application and what they were looking for, it sounded so...
View ArticleMasturbation games are a no-no on Apple’s App Store, apparently
HappyPlayTime is an instructional game which teaches women how to masturbate, something every human being does whether they will publicly admit it or not. According to the game’s designer Tina Gong,...
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Get a partial scholarship for playing League of Legends
Are you a hardcore League of Legends player who would like to go to college? Well, Robert Morris University (RMU) wants to give you partial scholarship. Located in Aurora, IL which is part of the...
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Sarkeesian leaves home over death threats – watch every episode of Tropes vs...
Feminist Frequency creator Anita Sarkeesian has been forced out of her home by online threats of sexual abuse and murder. As reported by Polygon, Feminist Frequency creator Anita Sarkeesian said today...
View ArticleRocksmith 2014 heads to PS4 and Xbox One in November
Good news fledgling guitarists/bassists who own either PlayStation 4 or Xbox One: Rocksmith 2014 Edition will arrive on the systems in November. Players will even be able to use the consoles’ streaming...
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Pokemon Art Academy’s out tomorrow, enough time to nab Omega Ruby & Alpha...
Pokémon Art Academy will be made available tomorrow in North America for Nintendo 3DS, which means you still have plenty of time to pre-purchase the digital edition to net yourself a Pokemon Omega Ruby...
View ArticleKentucky’s University of Pikeville is now offering League of Legends...
Last year, Chicago college Robert Morris University started handing out athletic scholarships to League of Legends players. Now, University of Pikeville in Kentucky will follow suit. UPike is a a...
View ArticleHeroes of the Storm colllege tournament prize is $25K per year in tuition
Blizzard is partnering with TeSPA to host a Heroes of the Storm tournament, and the prize up for grabs is free tuition for the rest of the winning team’s college career. Dubbed Heroes of the Dorm, the...
View ArticleYou can now learn English or Spanish on Xbox One with the Rosetta App
Want to learn English or Spanish? Rosetta Stone has an App for that on Xbox One. According to the language teaching firm, Rosetta Stone’s Discover Languages, the new application teaches English and...
View ArticleA lost Sonic game has been found and emulated
An obscure and rare piece of Sonic the Hedgehog history has been found in a Spanish mall. Waku Waku Sonic Patrol Car is a 1991 Japanese arcade game for children, in which they steer a police car...
View ArticleSubscription-based Minecraft headed to a school near you
A new version of the education tool MinecraftEdu has been developed by Microsoft. The latest version of Minecraft: Education Edition will be the first version of Microsoft specifically built for...
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Blizzard’s Heroes of the Storm college tournament returns
The Heroes of the Dorm tournament is back with $500,000 in tuition and other prizes up for grabs in the Heroes of the Storm competition. As with last year, teams of college students in the United...
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Imagine Dragons are teaming up with Rovio for an Angry Birds in-game event
Rovio Entertainment and US rock band Imagine Dragons have joined together to fight paediatric cancer in a new in-game event, Angry Birds x Imagine Dragons, in Angry Birds Match from now until September...
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Nintendo UK partners with Digital Schoolhouse to put gaming and esports into...
Nintendo is the new lead partner of Digital Schoolhouse, helping to put gaming into UK schools.The not-for-profit programme was previously supported by Sony PlayStation – but Nintendo UK appears to be...
View ArticleMicrosoft, Sony and Nintendo collaborate to fight hate and harassment on all...
Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft have all teamed up to release a joint set of principles that will govern a safer gaming environment across each company’s platform.Each of the companies has published a...
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Say hello to Articuno, Zapdos and Moltres – three new species of beetle
Three new species of beetles in Australia have been named after Pokemon‘s iconic trio of legendary birds from the first generation of monsters: Articuno, Zapdos and Moltres.Professor of entomology at...
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The number of older gamers is rising, new research finds
New data suggests that gamers are getting older, with more people in the 55-64 age bracket playing video games than ever before.A new report from marketing research firm Global Web Index revealed that...
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Rocksmith+ is a musical education subscription service for consoles and PC
UPDATE: Ubisoft has officially announced Rocksmith+. The game will be able to leverage your mobile phone as a microphone to pick up your guitar and bass-playing in real-time.It’s a subscription service...
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