Trine, Borderlands and Assasin's Creed II (PS3)

First off, I need to say thanks to my mate Paul for sharing his PS3 with me over the last couple of weeks - I promise I will get one myself ...

Machinarium (PC)

Go and play Machinarium . It not only looks good - it's set in a sort of rusty cute looking robot world - but manages to engage without ...

GameCity Squared 2009

I spent the last few days in Nottingham for the GameCity festival. I started off by attending the Interactive Technologies and Games con...

School of gaming starts in New York

This Guardian article on a school founded on the principles of game-based learning claims this is also "proof that games are educatio...

HCI 2009

Ok, so the second conference post. The 23rd BCS (British Computing Society) HCI (Human Computer Interaction) conference was held in Cambridg...

JURE and EARLI 2009

I was going to write a single blog post titled "Conference season" since that is what the last two weeks have felt like, but I thi...

Women and games

I've been a bit quiet lately because it's the summer and I've not really been in one place for long but I do promise to post som...

Critical thinking and The Sims 3

Thanks to Costas again for sending me a link to a fascinating blog that is looking at what happens when you decide to play a homeless fami...

H809: a couple of links

Just a very short post to point to a couple of things that might be useful for the final assignment: 1) A research proposal outline - poste...

CALRG conference

Last week, CALRG (Computer and learning research group) had it's annual conference in the Jennie Lee building on campus. Unfortunately,...

H809: Block three update

First off, apologies to H809ers for my absence over the last couple of weeks. I'm afraid that submitting my probation report, going back...

Low budget games

This is going to be a quick post, so I can bring your attention to t he Professional Gamer's (or Costas from LostInGames ) post on some...

H809: End of block 2

Well, everyone seems to have been busy with their second assignment so there's not been a massive amount of activity online for H809 the...

Tangential Learning

You can also find the article the video blog is based on here . "Tangential learning is not what you learn by being taught rather it...

H809: Week 7 roundup

Ok , I think I've always been about a week behind with the posts but it also looks like people on the course are trying to play catch up...

H809: Week 6 update

I had thought about combining this post with a week 7 entry, as it is a little overdue, but the forums have been a bit quiet so I thought I...

H809: End of block 1

This is just a quick post to wrap up the last of block 1 so we can all start afresh for the next part of the course. I can imagine that ever...