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Teaching Child Violence Prevention Through Gaming
Allan McCullough is a man with a very noble quest. He wants to help educate children so that they know how to deal with violence. How does he plan to do it? Videogames.
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Report: PC Gaming Topped $13 Billion in 2009
Last year was a rough one for the gaming industry as a whole, with market research firm The NPD Group finding that the US retail sector’s total gaming revenues for 2009 slipped 8 percent year-over-year. Despite that, the PC Gaming Alliance today is saying that its own corner of the market not only weathered the storm, but managed to grow in the process.
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Video Game Design Category Added to Contest
AMD Foundation, in support of AMD Changing the Game, has awarded a grant to the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers. The $65,000 grant will be used to help fund the Alliance’s new video game design category for the 2010 and 2011 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards.
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World Bank Computer Game Invites Youth to be Creative
The World Bank Institute, the learning arm of the World Bank, has launched an online computer game called EVOKE, designed to get young people involved in finding solutions to urgent problems like hunger, poverty and education. The winners of the ten-week game could be mentored by social innovators and business leaders and win a trip to a conference in Washington, D.C.
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Potential Console Killer OnLive to Go Live June 17
OnLive, a streaming video game service that, if properly implemented, could threaten traditional console makers like Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo, announced Wednesday that it will launch on June 17.
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Games Disguised as Work Gaining in Popularity
Computer games disguised as Excel and Word documents which allow office workers to waste time without attracting the attention of their bosses are taking off on the web.
The suite of “hidden” games draw strong inspiration from early arcade and PC titles but are played against the backdrop of what appear to be genuine office applications.
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Ubisoft’s DRM System is Shot to Pieces
Games publisher Ubisoft has suffered the inevitable embarrassment of having not only its anti-piracy measures cracked but the ignominy of its servers at the heart of the policy brought down.
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Steam Distribution Platform to Allow PC-Mac Cross-Platform Play
In one of the biggest boons for Apple computer gaming in years, Valve has announced that its Steam distribution platform will be coming to the Mac in April, with Portal 2 set to be the first simultaneous PC-Mac release.
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Ubisoft’s New DRM System Falls Down, Locks Out Paying Customers
Hey, Ubisoft: when you force users to maintain an internet connection even when playing a singleplayer game offline, you’d damn well better make sure you hold up your end of the bargain.
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Sony Plans Game Demos with Eroding Functionality
Future game demos released by Sony Computer Entertainment may reduce in functionality as players spend more time with them, coupled with a shareware-like purchasing model.
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