I’ve long held that video games are a powerful educational tool in the right hand, and now one more organization is proving that notion correct. In a collaboration with EA and Maxis, non-profit Glasslab recently finished developing an education and formative assessment mod known as SimCityEDU.
There’s a pretty good chance we won’t be seeing a new Warcraft game for quite some time – Blizzard’s pretty much focused entirely on World of Warcraft as far as that franchise is concerned. With no new Warcraft RTS on the horizon, one modder has taken it upon himself to create one on his own.
Video games have had a huge impact on Western society, of that there can be no doubt. But just how have they impacted our lives and changed our culture? Charlie Brooker – a satirist and games critic from the UK – is going to find out with a new documentary titled "How Video Games Changed the World."
Today, I’d like to tell you a story about a clown. A horribly overweight, ugly clown who stores things in his pants and paints his face on everything. His name is Dropsy, and he got his start on the Something Awful forums some time ago. He’s come a long way since – he’s now the star of a video game.
At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, Nvidia unveiled the Shield- a handheld, high-performance games console. Now, according to CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, there’s a sequel in the works: the Nvidia Shield 2, which will feature next-gen Tegra technology.
Virtual reality just got a whole lot more realistic. Consumer robotics startup Anki is hoping to take gaming to a whole new level, through the use of…well, robots. The firm’s already created one such experience; a racing game that uses model cars.
Studio Oxide Games today announced a new cross-platform, 64-bit 3D games engine known as Nitrous. Designed to work on the PS4, Xbox One, and PC; Oxide hopes Nitrous will become the definitive 3D strategy engine for next-gen strategy games. Based on what we’ve seen so far…that might just happen.
Word’s been floating around the blogosphere lately that in Brazil, you’re probably not going to be buying yourself a PS4 unless you’re fabulously wealthy. For some odd reason, although Sony’s console only costs about $400 here, it’s retailing for almost two grand there. Wait, what?
Nothing beats a good Halloween party. Any excuse to drink and be merry is a good one, particularly if one has the opportunity to show off your costume. ‘Course, the best parties always have a little something to do: here’s a few deliciously eerie games to keep everyone occupied at your own party.
The team at Google’s Quantum AI Lab have recently done something rather exciting with the immensely popular block building video game Minecraft: they’ve added quantum physics. qCraft, as it’s called, is a mod that adds blocks which exhibit a number of theories present in current-day quantum physics.
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