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Kids learning coding through video games
The Zone Academy is a place where gaming is used to teach a host of skills, including coding and teamwork.
With their parents permission, kids can visit The Zone Academy online and play games like Zone Craft, a game similar to Minecraft.
Kujanga Jackson with The Zone Academy tells us, "we've recreated the zone so it doesn't matter where a student is in our city on our country anywhere around they world, they can walk into this building as an avatar"
The Most Gut-Wrenching Scenes in Video Games
The more story-focused video games become, the more problematic they are. On the one hand, we play these colorful polygons and sprites for escapism, but on the other hand, there is a hard market for realism. And with realism comes genuine emotions, brought about by three-dimensional characters and dramatic structures.
Some pioneering game writers have explored how much pathos they can flood into a narrative. In turn, creating some of the most gut-wrenching scenes we have ever had the misfortune, or fortune, to witness, experience, and ultimately remember to this day.
From Minecraft Tricks to Twitter Hack: A Florida Teen's Troubled Online Path - The New York Times
At 15, he joined an online hackers' forum. By 16, he had gravitated to the world of Bitcoin, appearing to involve himself in a theft of $856,000 of the cryptocurrency, though he was never charged for it, social media and legal records show. On Instagram posts afterward, he showed up with designer sneakers and a bling-encrusted Rolex.
"He scammed me for a little bit of money when I was just a kid," said Colby Meeds, 19, a Minecraft player who said Mr. Clark stole $50 from him in 2016 by offering to sell him a digital cape for a Minecraft character but not delivering it.
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2K, NFLPA strike deal to feature current NFL players in multiple football video games -
2K, which itself operates under the umbrella of Take-Two Interactive, had previously announced a "multiyear partnership" with the NFL to produce future football-related games. 2K's latest agreement, struck alongside OneTeam Partners (OneTeam) -- a joint venture between the NFLPA, MLBPA and RedBird Capital -- confirms those games will feature active NFL player names, jersey numbers, images and likenesses.
2K's upcoming new games are classified as "non-simulation" games, which are technically exclusive to EA Sports and its annual "Madden" franchise. But it's unclear exactly what does and does not qualify as a "simulation." For instance, 2K said in its press release regarding the NFLPA deal that its games will be "football game experiences," signaling potential similarities with game-day play found in "Madden.
Avengers’ Spider-Man will be exclusive to PlayStation, according to a pulled retail
On the features of the next-gen versions of Avengers, the publisher said to expect "extremely fast" load times, boosted resolution and fidelity, improved texturing and armour destruction, ray tracing, and more.
August Video Game Releases – Nerds and Beyond
Welcome, fellow game nerds! As we are slowly going into the fall months, are you ready for all the new announcements and releases?
With PlayStation treating fans to the images and gaming information about the new PlayStation 5 (PS5), and PlayStation 5 Digital Edition back in June, everyone is keeping an eye on it to see if the pandemic will impact the 2020 holiday release they have planned. What we know about it so far and the list of games already announced can be found here .
‘War is not a game’: How video games became military recruitment tools | Technology
exPress Start is a weekly online column on the intersection of gaming and culture. Level up with Gaurav Bhatt every weekend as he explores the creative and competitive sides of video games.
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“Imagine trying to explain to your colleagues who are members of Congress what Twitch is,” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted on Thursday while the US House of Representatives was voting on her proposal. The amendment was to ban the military from using online gaming platforms for recruitment and it was presented by the democratic socialist Ocasio-Cortez with the words: “War is not a game.”
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