Games industry legend and major educational game supporter Nolan Bushnell believes a stronger implementation of digital technologies in the classroom could reduce high school from four years to one. Calling the current education system “a disaster”, Bushnell’s accelerated learning program Speed to Learn has reportedly been teaching subjects ten times faster to “hundreds of classrooms” […]
The Classic Gaming Expo organizers were successful in their Kickstarter donation campaign to raise funds for a Video Game History Museum. Setting a goal of $30,000, the directorial team (Joe Santulli, Sean Kelly, and John Hardie) managed $50,266 from over 350 backers.The Sunnyvale, CA-based museum will now be able to house rare and unique items […]
Philip Reitinger, formerly the Director of the U.S. National Cyber Security Center, has been brought on board to Sony as the corporation’s new Chief Information Security Officer. According to Sony, who previously collaborated with the Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of this past April’s Playstation Network hack, Reitinger’s job mainly consists of “assuring […]
On October 7th, German gamers will finally see what all the fuss was about with the original Doom and its sequel; all four that haven’t pirated the game in the interim 17 years since the game was banned at launch. Bethesda Softworks, parent company of Doom-makers id Software, announced the policy reversal in an official […]