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RSS computer gamesComputer games 'can help plug IT skills gap'
News At the 2007 Parliament and the Internet Conference in Westminster, the minister said schoolchildren's enthusiasm for computer games should be harnessed to encourage the development of skills in maths and science, the proliferation of which would... [22 Oct 2007]
Beckham bait for computer games consumers
News While demand for business software has waned, popular characters and the introduction of new high-tech machines are to revive the computer games market for developers in the UK. Industry experts say the computer games industry is driven by... [28 Aug 2001]
Schools look to learning powers of computer games
News Three UK secondary schools are piloting the use of computer games in the classroom. The research project, dubbed Teaching with Games, which is to begin in September, will explore whether consumer computer games, such as Medal of Honour, are... [10 Aug 2005]
Teachers want computer games in the classroom
News There may soon be fewer pupils bunking off as teachers in the UK have given their backing to a scheme which intends to bring computer games into the classroom. While many will clearly write it off as the latest fad, a narrow majority of teachers... [13 Jan 2006]
Computer games linked with anaesthetic properties
News Video games could become part of the modern physician's repertoire, based on research released this week that suggests playing games reduces sensitivity to pain. Each student had a hand submerged in ice-cold water, once with no distraction and... [20 Mar 2003]
IBM plans million-player computer games
News IBM is using its grid computing concept to build million-player video games through a partnership with start-up company, Butterfly.net. Current online adventure games have to be hosted on separate servers, with limited interaction between the parts... [10 May 2002]
What Can News Media Learn From Computer Games
White Paper This is not a conference about how to turn stories into games. But what we can learn from games that will help drive interest and participation in the stories that we generate - perhaps even change how to tell stories together. [01 May 2004]
Photos: Schoolkids develop games to aid learning
Photo Scientists are developing software which allows school children to build their own computer games - in a bid to improve their creative and IT skills. The 'Adventure Author' software, currently being developed at the Heriot-Watt University in... [23 Jan 2007]
Virtual Identities in Interactive Broadcasting
White Paper Movies, cartoons, television series, advertisements, multimedia and computer games are all built around narrative structures. However, the potential of interactive narratives has not yet been fully explored by interactive television in comparison... [24 Feb 2004]
Real-Time Goal-Oriented Behaviour for Computer Game Agents
White Paper To increase the depth and appeal of computer games, the intelligence of the characters they contain needs to be in-creased. To aid performance in real-time domains (e.g.computer games) it is proposed that both the processes encapsulated by the... [24 Feb 2004]
Games makers to hook users with fakes
News The cat and mouse game played between computer games companies and software pirates has seen a bold move by the establishment. In a new gambit, games companies will use piracy to hook users. A protection system from Macrovision and British games... [14 Oct 2003]
"Epidemic" of violence and depravity in video games must end
News A conservative US institute is demanding that computer games manufacturers clean up their act and return a modicum of decency to an industry which is popular with impressionable children. The computer games industry has worked hard in recent years... [20 Dec 2002]
CA interim CEO takes new job
News Computer Associates' interim CEO Kenneth Cron has taken a new job as chairman of the board at games company Midway Games. The move reflects a return to his roots for Cron, whose previous positions have largely been in the computer games industry. [16 Jun 2004]
UK games industry needs to go back to uni
News The UK games industry needs to play a more active role in academia, helping to shape the syllabuses of university courses to ensure games development students graduate with the right skills for industry, a Westminster Media Forum Keynote Seminar... [08 Jul 2008]
Isle of Man is the new M4 corridor
News The Isle of Man is hoping to attract techies and software developers to the Irish Sea outpost, and it's starting by courting computer games manufacturers after one such firm located on the island. IncaGold, a computer games licensing and... [15 Jan 2004]
