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EA founder making educational Pokémon/Moshi Monsters rival

Trip Hawkins has set up a new educational gaming firm and plans to create a monster-catching RPG for kids. The EA founder’s new firm If You Can Company also employs Ben Geliher, who was lead producer at Mind Candy on the online phenomenon Moshi Monsters. Geliher has revealed a few …

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Educational games company Mango Learning launches Kickstarter campaign

Mango Learning has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund its development projects aimed at bringing educational games to mobile devices. Comprised of game developers and education experts, Mango is looking to raise at least $100,000 through crowd funding. Mango will use funds from the Kickstarter campaign to create the first …

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Portal goes free on Steam

Valve has made its critically acclaimed first-person puzzler Portal available for free. The original game, which first debuted in 2007 Half-Life compilation The Orange Box, can be downloaded at no cost on both PC and Mac. However, Rock Paper Shotgun reports this offer is only available until September 20th. This …

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Obama announces video game challenge

US President Barack Obama has announced a new initiative that promotes the development of educational video games. Called the National STEM Video Game Challenge, prizes will be offered to those whose titles are deemed to have best promoted education in science, technology, engineering and math. The scheme is open both …

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