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University of Florida Honors Courses — Fall 2010
From the University of Terra Florida University of Florida Honors Courses — Fall 2010 catalog. “21st Century Skills in Starcraft is an 8 week entirely online course that uses the popular real time strategy (RTS) game Starcraft to teach valuable 21st Century Skills through a hands-on approach. With society becoming increasingly technology-based and fast-paced, it [...]
NY School To Pursue Ludic Curriculum
Intriguing news from from Popsci (The weblog of Popular Science magazine): A school in New York City has announced that its emerging curriculum will be based entirely around games and play. The Manhattan-based NY City public school, called Quest to Learn (Q2L), boasts financial support from Parsons School of Design, MacArthur, Gates, and Intel, among others. [...]
On Newsgames’ Newsworthiness
In a recent post over at the Georgia Tech Journalism & Games Project (Raid Gaza! Editorial Games and Timeliness), the indefatigable Ian Bogost holds up a recent editorial game, Raid Gaza!, as exemplary of the kind of critical work games (“newsgames”) can do for journalism. Like editorial games should, [Raid Gaza] takes a strong position. [...]
Warcraft population
According to a recent press release, Blizzard’s World of Warcraft now boasts 11.5 million subscribers world-wide. Subscriptions and virtual-world populations are a frequent topic of discussion in game studies, but the facts are notoriously hard to come by, since population density — often perceived as an index of popularity — is a selling point, and [...]
GameSpot: Shakespeare booked on DS
GameSpot: Shakespeare booked on DS “The Times of London reports today that Nintendo has partnered with preeminent book publisher HarperCollins to bring a slate of literary classics to the DS. Labeled The 100 Classic Book Collection, the software will reportedly include works from Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, and the Bronte sisters. Details on the title’s [...]
Getting Shot: A 103-Second Retrospective