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Second American college to offer scholarships for League of Legends and recognize it as an official school sport.

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35 years ago, a video game revolution was sweeping through American culture. Shopping mall arcades were crammed with teenagers blasting menacing Space Invaders and lethal Asteroids to fading phosphorous particles. Cartridge-based home gaming consoles were beginning to catch on, bringing interactive entertainment into living rooms. University computer labs intended for scientific research were overrun with students programming their own electronic versions of Dungeons Dragons. And with the coming of the 1979 Christmas shopping season, two revolutionary new home computers from Atari appeared on store shelves, machines which would forever change our perceptions of what PCs were capable of.

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Who says that PlayStation 3’s are just for playing games or watching Netflix? University of Massachusetts Dartmouth physics professor Dr. Gaurav Khanna, for instance, is using a whole bunch of the consoles networked together in order to study black holes.

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This spring, Gaurav Khanna noticed that the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth physics department was more crowded than usual. Why, he wondered, were so many students suddenly so interested in science? It wasnt a thirst for knowledge, it turns out. News of Dr. Khannas success in building a supercomputer using only PlayStation 3 video game consoles had spread quickly;

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Jeffrey 'Axe' Williamson will be headed to the University of Texas in Austin, Texas this weekend to compete in Forte 2, an APEX World Circuit tournament! The top 24 competitors in Melee singles will be earning seeding points for APEX 2015.

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Forbes contributor Jordan Shapiro writes "In the past, I have covered many studies that look at the efficacy of game based learning. But a recent study from A-GAMES, a collaboration between New York University and the University of Michigan, is significant because it looks at the way games impact the learning experience and the relationship between teacher and student. It does this by considering how digital games support formative assessment a term educators and researchers use to describe the techniques used by teachers to monitor, measure, and support student progress and learning during instruction. It may sound fancy but formative assessment really just refers to the ongoing attention that all good teachers have always provided their students, monitoring student learning and offering ongoing and specific feedback."

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The Nintendo Wii gaming console has been linked to rising cases of so-called Nintendinitis in recent years, according to a study by the University of Groningen. Reported cases range from Nintendo Neck and Elbow cricks from long periods of play, to Wii Wee: a reported case of incontinence in players who were so engrossed in Smash Bros. Brawl they refused to go to the toilet.

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Sony Computer Entertainment Europe and Sheffield Hallam University have announced a new partnership that will allow students to create video games on the PlayStation 4.