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How Videogames Blind Us With Science

Published on 1 year, 6 months ago in games and snippets. 1 Comment Tags: , .

An interesting article over at Wired discussing a recent study into how kids are using their brains and scientific reasoning to beat video games…

One of the reasons kids get bored by science is that too many teachers present it as a fusty collection of facts for memorization. This is precisely wrong. Science isn’t about facts. It’s about the quest for facts — the scientific method, the process by which we hash through confusing thickets of ignorance. It’s dynamic, argumentative, collaborative, competitive, filled with flashes of crazy excitement and hours of drudgework, and driven by ego: Our desire to be the one who figures it out, at least for now. It’s dramatic and nutty and fun.

And it’s pretty much how kids already approach the games they love. They’re already scientists; they already know the value of the scientific method. Teachers just need to talk to them in their language, so that the kids can begin to understand the joy of puzzling through the offline, “real” world too.

via Daring Fireball

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First Gears of War 2 Footage

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago in games. 2 Comments Tags: , .

Time to get that pre-order on, this looks like it’s going to be awesome…

COD4 Is Awesome!

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago in games. 2 Comments Tags: , , .

Late to the game as always, I finally got onto COD4 last night.

Oh. my. god. This game is frigging awesome!

I had no idea what I was doing half the time, and spent most of the night watching replays of how I died, but I haven’t had a laugh like this with a game since Gears of War came out. Halo 3 was good, great even - but it just didn’t have that stand out ‘you’re gonna remember this’ feeling to it, it was just more, well, Halo.

Maybe this is because COD4 is my first COD game and i’ve just been missing out all of these years (the WWII stuff never really appealed).

Anyway, enough of my rambling… If you own a machine capable of gaming in anyway, be it Xbox, PS3, Wii, PC, your toaster, whatever - you need to try out COD4.

Oh, and for real giggles, try an 18 player free-for-all on the world’s smallest map ‘Shipment’. I think I had on average about 5 seconds between respawns! :D