Radio Sweden News News from France24I played Star Wars Galaxies from its second month of existence until the very end, more than eight years later. The day after they pulled the plug I was playing its successor, Star Wars the Old Republic, a week before the official launch, because I had pre-ordered. The new game has a lot of...
Anti-ACTA demonstration in Strasbourg, originally uploaded by radiowood2000. Today sees demonstrations around the world to protest against ACTA, a so-called anti-copyright treaty negotiated in secret by the United States, which critics charge will limit the Internet even more than the notorious SOPA legislation in the US. Here in Strasbourg, gathered at the Place Kleber,...
From “The Social Network” (Press photo from Sony/Columbia Tristar) Social networks have come to mean, in the computer sense, websites or platforms that people use to communicate with each other. They differ from e-mail or newsletters or RSS feeds in that everyone in the network can communicate with everyone else. Wikipedia defines Social Networking...
All due respect to forums, Facebook and Twitter, a recent conference discussed using computer games for education. The January 30 issue of the “International Herald Tribune” reports from the Learning Without Frontiers conference in London. Bristol Univrersity neuroscientist Paul Howard-Jones presented his research into “teaching with immersive games” or TWIG. The IHT writes that...
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