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Prof. Constance Steinkuehler Talks About Video Game Benefits
The ESA recently interviewed college professor and researcher Constance Steinkuehler about her work with and admiration for video games. Pixelkin has spoken with Dr. Steinkuehler before. She always has a lot...Read More
Annual STEM Video Game Challenge Winners Announced
The National STEM Video Game Challenge just announced the winners of the 4th annual challenge. They’re all middle and high school kids. There were nearly 4,000 entries in total. While only a handful...Read More
Hidden Family-Gaming Gems: Child of Light
Have you ever wanted to help your child through a magical fantasy adventure? Of course you have! And you’re in luck, because that’s exactly what Child of Light wants to offer...Read More
Journey Coming to PS4
We’ve been hearing rumors and whispers (well, announcements) about Thatgamecompany’s Journey coming to PlayStation 4 for some time now, but it’s official—mostly—and it’ll be this July.Read More
New Digimon Game Coming to North America
I had the chance to play Digimon All-Star Rumble at PAX last year, and while I admit that fighting games aren’t really my jam, it was…okay. But it didn’t feel...Read More
Huge Reddit Protest Ends; r/gaming Subreddit Is Back
Reddit is now operating normally, after a huge protest that took place over the weekend. The protest was led by subreddit Community Managers. It shut down many sections of the massively...Read More
Assassin’s Creed Obstacle Course To Return to San Diego Comic-Con
If you’re an Assassin’s Creed fan like me, you’ll know the temptation to vault up the sides of buildings and throw yourself into the carts of hay that litter the...Read More
Minecon News: Minecraft Getting a Bunch of New Features
This weekend at Minecon, the first annual Minecraft convention, Mojang unveiled a load of new features for the game.Read More
Minecon 2015 News: Minecraft To Add Story Mode
At Minecon 2015 this weekend, the annual Minecraft convention, it was announced that Telltale Games is making a game for Minecraft.Read More
Plant Nanny Is So Cute and Healthy
If you’re anything like me, you’re dehydrated. All the time. I don’t know why, but for whatever reason I just can’t seem to bring myself to drink water during the...Read More
Lego Minifigures Online Relaunches Improved Version
Last October, Lego launched a kid-friendly MMO (massively multiplayer online game) called Lego Minifigures Online. At the time it was free to play and only available on PC. As of this week,...Read More
[Podcast] Gaming With the Moms #12: You Can’t Spoil History
Welcome to Gaming With The Moms, the podcast about gaming with families! This week our host Nicole Tanner was out of town visiting family in Ohio and attending her high school...Read More
This Week in Family Gaming: July 3, 2015
Hello hello! This week Seattle saw the arrival of Super League Gaming. Super League is a gaming session that takes place…in a movie theatre. In Seattle, Super League put on...Read More
Club Nintendo’s Website is Finally Down
Back in January we learned that Club Nintendo, Nintendo’s loyalty program, was closing its doors. Well, the day has finally come (in the U.S., at least). June 30 was the...Read More
