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Read More »Games to be taught in Scottish schools
Scottish schoolchildren are to be taught the basics of video game design as part of the country’s new national curriculum – dubbed the ‘Curriculum of Excellence’. According to the Press Association, the move is to designed to ‘create the next generation of young programmers’. Schools minister Maureen Watt unveiled the …
Read More »Full details of EAs hostile bid revealed
An EA filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission has unveiled the full details of EA’s ‘hostile’ bid for Rockstar parent Take Two . The bid is expected to take another turn this week, as Take Two addresses its shareholders at its Annual General Meeting in New York this Thursday. …
Read More »Games may become outdated term, says EA Casual boss
The head of EA’s casual and mobile games business Kathy Vrabeck has forecast that interactive entertainment may evolve to the point that it is now longer referred to as ‘games’. Next-Gen.biz reports that Vrabeck added user-generated content and personalisation of games worlds will become ‘everything’ to consumers. Vrabeck was speaking …
Read More »Peter Moore: Games will change the world
President of EA Sports Peter Moore has predicted that games will play a vital role in the mental and physical health of mainstream consumers in future – claiming that software will allow gamers to do things with games in their own houses that they just can’t do at the gym”. …
Read More »McDonalds boss: Games to blame for childhood obesity
The chief executive of McDonald’s UK has hit out at video games for being a major cause of the childhood obesity crisis. Steve Easterbrook told The Times that the food and drinks industry shared responsibility for the issue with individuals and Government. But he made special mention of the popularity …
Read More »Games to overtake music with record 07 revenues
Games revenues will overtake cash generated by music at retail by the end of the year, according to Screen Digest. With interactive entertainment continuing its spectacular rise to prominence, demand for Nintendo hardware repeatedly hitting the headlines and the multi-billion dollar Activision Blizzard deal shocking the financial world, the games …
Read More »CES increases games focus
The Consumer Electronic Show is boosting the amount of floor space dedicated to video game firms by 65 per cent for the 2008 event. So far the show’s Gaming Showcase currently only lists companies such as Commodore Gaming, Entropia Universe, LumiSource and Red Beard reported Games Industry . However format …
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