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If You Want an Oculus Rift, It’s Going to Cost You $600
The information the technology world has been waiting for was announced this morning. The leading virtual reality company, Oculus, opened preorders for its flagship VR headset the Oculus Rift. We now...Read More
Valve Cracks Down on Match-Fixing
Valve is dishing out a permanent ban to anyone that engages in match-fixing in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. If a team is found to have intentionally lost for financial gain, the team...Read More
Hidden Family Gaming Gems: Towerfall: Ascension
If you’re like many American families, you spent a good portion of the last few weeks caught in a cyclonic whirl of close family, distant relatives, and childhood friends with...Read More
Rise of the Tomb Raider Hits PC on January 28
We now have a solid release date for the PC edition of Rise of the Tomb Raider! Lara Croft’s latest adventure will hit Windows 10 and Steam on January 28. Rise...Read More
Oculus Rift Pre-Orders Start Tomorrow, But If You Backed It On Kickstarter You Might Not Need To Buy It
You get an Oculus Rift! You get an Oculus Rift! Everyone who backed the Oculus Dev Kit 1 at the $275 level (or higher) on Kickstarter gets an Oculus Rift! Oculus...Read More
PlayStation 4 Performed Well Over the Holidays
The PlayStation 4 didn’t lose its sales lead over the holiday season. During a five week period from the end of November to the beginning of January, 5.7 million PlayStation 4s...Read More
Kojima and del Toro Reunite For Hall of Fame Induction
Guess who’s reuniting? At the DICE Awards on February 19, Guillermo del Toro will induct Hideo Kojima into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences (AIAS) Hall of Fame. Previously, del Toro worked...Read More
Forbes Names 30 Under 30 In Games
It’s that time again for the Forbes list that names young people who are notable achievers. The 2016 list includes 600 people under 30 in 20 different sectors, from food...Read More
Sande Chen Explains the Ups and Downs of Ed Game Funding
In a series on gamesandlearning.org, Sande Chen is digging into the state of educational games. (We discussed Part I of her series here.) In Part II, she analyzed funding sources...Read More
This Teacher Brought Coding Lessons To Kindergarten
One charter school teacher in Oklahoma City has gotten his students started coding–in kindergarten. Wes Dicken uses Dash and Dot robots from Wonder Workshop to introduce the kids to programming....Read More
Xbox Announces 16 More Xbox 360 Games Now Backwards Compatible with Xbox One
When Xbox announced that they were implementing backwards compatibility, a lot of people cheered. Now even more people will be happy. Xbox has added more games to the list of Xbox...Read More
If You Love Dragons, You Might Be Disappointed About Scalebound Delay
There’s a new RPG on the horizon called Scalebound. It’s all about a dragon and a young man. PlatinumGames originally planned to release the Xbox-exclusive game in 2016, but the company just...Read More
Ubisoft Montréal Devotes Dollars and Time to Teaching Kids Coding
Ubisoft Montréal has announced the CODEX program. It will deliver $8 million and more than 1,000 hours of volunteer instruction in coding and programming over five years to 17 different educational...Read More
ReCore Brings Our Robot Friends to Xbox One and PC
Microsoft has “by the way” confirmed that the upcoming ReCore is coming to PC, as well as Xbox One. The news was dropped in a post on Xbox’s news blog by corporate...Read More
