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The British Library Challenges Students To Make Shakespeare Games
The British Library has an extremely cool competition for full-time students in Britain. It’s called the Off The Map competition. This year the competition is using Shakespeare as its wellspring,...Read More
Oculus Rift Lawsuit Will Move Forward
Oculus Rift is facing several legal claims against its makers, which is unsurprising given the attention the device has received in general. Oculus is already combatting one lawsuit from Zenimax, which claims...Read More
Xbox One Preview Participants Getting a First Look at the New Dashboard
Microsoft is rolling out bits and pieces of the upcoming Xbox One dashboard update to participants in the Xbox One Preview program. Social features seem be the most notable changes...Read More
Teaching Math With Hearthstone
When I was a kid in elementary school, I was already deep down the rabbit hole of video games, thanks to getting an Atari 2600 at 4 years old. I was...Read More
Oxenfree Review
Platforms: PC, Xbox One, Mac We played on: Xbox One I like games that give me the heebie-jeebies. What are these heebie-jeebies, you say? The heebie-jeebies are the creeping, prickling...Read More
British Writer’s Guild Honors Unsettling English Games Like Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture
The British Writer’s Guild has decreed Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture as the winner of its video game writing award. Other nominees included Her Story and Sunless Sea, which are...Read More
Minecraft: Educational Edition Coming This Summer
In a move that makes total sense to us, Microsoft has announced that they are acquiring MinecraftEdu and will be releasing a new product called Minecraft: Educational Edition. The edition is...Read More
The Purring Quest Review
The Purring Quest is a love letter to cats. It’s filled with cute cat puns, referential humor, and nods to Schrödinger’s cat. However, all of the cute cat imagery doesn’t...Read More
Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc Is Coming To PC
The popular visual novel game Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc is coming to PC via Steam, Spike Chunsoft announced on their English Twitter account.Read More
Filming Is Finished on Assassin’s Creed Movie
According to a tweet from Assassin’s Creed head of content Aymar Azaïzia, filming has wrapped on the Assassin’s Creed film.Read More
New Game in Beloved Harvest Moon Franchise Colonizes the iPad
Harvest Moon games are a series of adorable farming simulators. Now the newest game, Harvest Moon: Seeds of Memories, is available for iPhone and iPad.Read More
The EA Access Vault Is Free This Week
EA Access, the Xbox One exclusive subscription service from Electronic Arts, is offering free access to its game vault for Xbox Live Gold members starting January 19 and continuing through January...Read More
Disc-Scratching Lawsuit Goes to Supreme Court
The Supreme Court of the United States says it will hear a segment of the famous disc-scratching lawsuit against Microsoft. The lawsuit alleges that the Xbox 360 was defective and...Read More
Tomb Raider Game Director Moves On
It’s often sad to see a key person on the developer team for a large and well-received game head somewhere else. Brian Horton, who was the game director for Rise...Read More