Sep
6
NIMF Annouces Date, Location For National Video Game Summit
September 6, 2006 | Leave a Comment
The National Institute on Media and the Family has announced a date and location for its long-awaited National Video Game Summit.
The event, promised by NIMF president Dr. David Walsh in the organization’s 2005 Annual Video Game Report Card, will be held October 21-22 at the University of Minnesota’s Continuing Education and Conference Center in Falcon […]
Sep
5
Anti-Bully Game Under Development
September 5, 2006 | Leave a Comment
While you may have heard a thing or two about an upcoming game called Bully, you probably don’t know as much about what’s being called “the anti-Bully game.”
As reported by GamaSutra, Edinburgh’s Heriot-Watt University, in cooperation with eight other colleges, has announced development of a game designed to teach 10 to 12-year olds anti-bullying skills […]
Aug
25
PS3 Can Do Good Deeds While You Sleep
August 25, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Stories like this warm GP’s cynical heart…
Out of Stanford comes word that the PlayStation 3 will be powerful enough to participate in the university’s Folding@Home distributed processing project.
FAH, which targets the study of protein folding and protein folding diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Type-2 diabetes, has been ongoing since 2000. Thus far, the project has […]







