Grand Theft Auto 6 might not be released yet, but those who prefer their games to take place in real life can rejoice with the announcement of Project Skydrop, a modern day treasure hunt. Created by video game developer Jason Rohrer, the reward is a solid ...

“I’m gonna make games,” Ellie Freeman declared at age 9. That was six years ago. Now a 15-year-old freshman at the Kehillah School, a private Jewish high school in Palo Alto, Freeman has a video game in professional development.

Students from across the country will get a chance to design their own version of the skyscraper-size video games that have become the calling card of Drexel University’s Entrepreneurial Game Studio and Westphal College of Media Arts & Design Professor ...

Teachers generally frown upon students who play video games in class, but a public school in the Bronx has found a way to use video game design as an educational tool–and the results are astounding. Students in the pilot program saw a significant ...

A new video game design competition with $100,000 in prize money up for grabs challenges K-12 students to combine technology and imagination. Launched last week by the U.S National Science Foundation (NSF), the contest invites students to ponder what the ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — From now until Jan. 11, aspiring video game creators and artists can submit entries to an online community “game jam” organized by Grand Rapids based designer and Finji studio co-founder Adam Saltsman. “A ‘game jam ...

Game design holds important lessons for education, said Lee Schuneman, the chief product officer at edtech firm Efekta Education Group.

(TNS) — University of Texas at San Antonio students will soon be able to earn a bachelor's degree in creating video games. The school's game design program is slated to launch in the fall semester as a concentration under UTSA's multidisciplinary studies ...

Literacy is critical for success in all facets of school and life. Yet, only 30% of U.S. fourth graders are considered proficient in reading, with scores actually declining by two percentage points from 2022 — and children from low-income families are ...

A little more than a decade ago, the video-game designer Davey Wreden experienced a crippling success. In October, 2013, he and a collaborator, William Pugh, released the Stanley Parable HD, a polished and expanded version of a prototype that Wreden had ...

Nvidia says DLSS 5 is the most significant graphics breakthrough since ray tracing, promising photorealistic visuals on today's RTX GPUs — but the dem