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Tag: Games/Gaming

  • Pong Save Us!

    My old favourite, Wired strikes again. This time with an interview Nolan Bushnell by Ethan Watters. Bushnell wants to create games like his original Pong that act as social facilitators and bring people together and exist in the background. He wants to move away from the sex and violence that many of the games today…

  • The Revolution will also be Classic

    According to an interview with Shigeru Miyamoto at Engadget, that the Revolution will have a traditional controller as well. This is likely going to mean that any real innovative gaming will have to come from Nintendo as opposed to third party developers who likely won’t invest. This is too bad as Nintendo has always been…

  • Xbox 360 worldwide dates

    MS has released the dates for most markets: North America – Tuesday, November 22 Europe – Friday, December 2 Japan – Saturday, December 10 There are supposed to be 2 million units available for North America.

  • Wired- Game/Reality

    Just an article that people may find interesting – My Dream Date With the Ford GT. He mentions how training in GT4 helped him on the real track. It’s likely what many other racers (from wannabes to pros) likely do as well. I remember during the ’88 Calgary Olympics, the Canadian Bobsled team trained with…

  • New Edition of Innovate is Online

    The August/September edition of Innnovate is online with a few interesting articles. Gee’s article has an interesting passage: Here we reach the central paradox of all deep learning. On the one hand, it will not work to try and tell newcomers everything. We, as educators, can not put it all into words because a domain…