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The ice has just about thawed, so it’s time for a quick Spring Preview. We’re planning the now usual coverage of tabletop RPGs, graphic novels, boardgames and exceptional videogames: The 2010 E3 show is near and videogame companies are already in a frenzy. There’ll be a lot of talk about Grand Theft [...] There are more so-called ‘free game’ sites out there than you can shake a stick at. Most of these sites are saturated in eye-popping ads and merely offer cut down versions of tiresome platform, puzzle or ’shoot ‘em up’ titles. Hopefully, the kind of sources and games we’ve tracked down offer a few [...] Time to round up our Christmas list with a few suggestions suited to older teenagers or adults. We’re opting for entertainment over anything else and why not! Batman: The Killing Joke Batman: The Killing Joke The Killing Joke builds on the ‘Dark Batman, Dark Gotham’ restyling which saved the franchise following the [...] There’s often a thin line between boardgames and ‘bored games’. Too competitive, too long and too slow are some of the fairly frequent difficulties that can ruin gameplay. The rules also tend to be read like they’re set in stone, and it’s tricky to apply working fixes unless you’re used to the kind [...] The fourth and final part of our series on gaming and future learning covers a few skills that show exactly why games have a lot to offer in schools and homes: Teachers and lecturers who don’t adapt to the alternative ‘curriculum’ presented through games and active learning will become increasingly disconnected from [...] The following future learning opportunities are readily available in a range of games and game formats: Games offer a ‘testing ground’, where different skills, approaches and risks can be evaluated to build an awareness of consequences, without experiencing the ‘actual’ consequences. Sims 3 and Sony’s Free Realms can be criticised for [...] Here’s our first selection of the kind of ‘future learning’ that we would like to see built into games used for fun and learning inside and outside the home. We’re going to highlight some of what we see as ‘key skills’ and present examples of existing games which offer such skills during play.
Whether we like it or not, gaming now takes up a large slice of many kid’s spare time. In the UK an Ofcom report from 2008 found 87% of 8-11s and 88% of 12-15s playing games on a games console at home. The effects of so many kids spending a lot of time [...] |
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