SCEE partners with Gamer Camp, offers PlayStation Academic Scholarships
SCEE has partnered with Birmingham City University’s Gamer Camp, which will see the firm offering up PlayStation Academic Scholarships. The goal is to help provide an opportunity for the next...
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Walking With Dinosaurs and Disney announced for Wonderbook
Popular BBC show Walking With Dinosaurs is coming to Wonderbook, as well as new Disney content. Sony announced the additions at it’s pre-gamescom conference. The educational title sees you digging for...
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New study ties teen aggression to video games, feathers ruffled
Brock University in Canada has released a report that discloses a four-year study into the links between teenage aggression and playing violent videogames. The findings suggest that there is a direct...
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Rez creator Tetsuya Mizuguchi becomes university professor
Tetsuya Mizuguchi, creator of Rez and Child of Eden has resigned from Q Entertainment and has taken up a new role as a Professor at Keio University. He will continue to support the studio as an advisor...
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Skyrim-inspired course offered through Rice University’s Department of English
Skyrim is now a course you can take at Rice University in Houston, Texas – sort of. The one-time course titled: “Scandanavian Fantasy World: Old Norse Sagas and Skyrim” is being offered by the...
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Rocksmith Classic Rock DLC pack now available through Xbox Live in Europe
Rocksmith’s Classic Rock DLC pack is now available for download on Xbox Live in Europe, the Middle-East and Asia for £23.99 or 2400 MS points. The pack will be followed by the Alternative Rock pack and...
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Rocksmith’s Alternative Rock DLC pack now available on PSN and XBL
Rocksmith’s Alternative Rock DLC pack is now available for download on PSN and XBL. While some of these songs aren’t really alternative, RUSH for example, it’s still a good mix of tunes. The...
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Osborne promises UK games tax relief will be “among the most generous in the...
Chancellor George Osborne has promised tax reliefs for the UK video game industry will be “among the most generous in the world”. Speaking of the industry in his autumn statement, and reported by GI...
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New study compares prolonged exposure to violent games to cigarette habit
Research conducted at the Université Pierre-Mendès-France, carried out by analysts at Ohio State University and the University of Hohenheim, has found that prolonged exposure to videogames increases...
View ArticleTrip Hawkins opens new London studio If You Can
EA co-founder Trip Hawkins has opened If You Can, a new studio in London with Moshi Monsters lead producer Ben Geliher. The studio will focus on educational games with the first round of funding from...
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Dyson inventor cautions UK Government’s fixation on games, warns of potential...
Sir James Dyson – creator of the Dyson Vacuum – has expressed concern that the rise of gaming’s popularity, and the Government’s recent efforts to support the sector is detracting from traditional...
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SimCity to be used for educational purposes through new STEM initiative
EA has started an initiative called SimCityEDU, in which educators can use SimCity for educational purposes. The hope is that through games, more universities can attract research, technology and game...
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Berners-Lee calls for computer science education at a younger age
Accredited with creating the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee Knows a thing or two about the possibilities of computer coding. In a new new interview, Berners-Lee has called for an increase in computer...
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Raspberry Pi: Google buys 15,000 computers for UK schools
Google has snapped up 15,000 Raspberry Pi computers for use in UK schools. Google chairman Eric Schmidt has stated that access to affordable computing in schools is the key to driving the future of...
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Computer science added to UK’s English Baccalaureate qualification
Computer science has been added to Britain’s English Baccalaureate (EBacc) qualification. The move was announced by Education Secretary, Michael Gove, who confirmed that it would be added alongside...
View ArticlePresident Obama calls for computer programming requirements in schools
President Obama has stated that all children should be introduced to computer programming in schools, due to the rise of computer-centric jobs and America’s increasing interest in videogames. In a...
View ArticleStudy suggests that gamers have increased control over their dreams
New studies at the MacEwan University in Canada suggest that gamers have greater control over their dreams, encouraging us to subconsciously fight back and manipulate what we experience. New Scientist...
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Criterion student open day accepting applications now
Need For Speed: Most Wanted developer Criterion Games is holding a student game jam on April 11, that will see final year A-level and first year university students working together to make a fully...
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Borderlands animated short in production through 2K Games student scheme
Borderlands will be turned into an animated short film as part of a collaboration between 2K Games, Gearbox Software and students at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. The scheme is called...
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New study: play games an hour a day, improve your cognition
Researchers at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have conducted new analysis into the impact of gaming on a person’s cognitive perception. The findings claim that playing just an hour a...
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