Monthly Archives: March 2014

The holy grail of educational gaming is to make a game that educates yet also is as fun as an entertainment game. AdapTac Games believes they have achieved the holy grail of educational gaming with their Intergalactic Aetherial Hurtle: ADHD Skills Booster Game. This action/strategy single player racing game iPad app is based on standard executive skills function and behavioral therapy strategies built into a game designed like an entertainment game, surpassing basic mind puzzles or mini-math challenges.  In the game, players study specs on available car parts and characters, plan which parts and characters to select, compete for car parts, build and race their car (players control acceleration and braking). Players compete against 3 NPC teams while sticking to their time limit and avoiding distractors like the Trickster. Skill in key areas like attention and strategy is shown on the dashboard, which displays both...

Intel’s chief futurist and strategist, Steve Power Brown, and Dave Evans, innovation guru for Cisco, will deliver the daily keynote addresses at the first ever Wearable Technology Conference & Expo, which takes place from 18-19 March at Olympia in London. With more than 100 expert speakers, 30 exhibitors and a whole host of UK-exclusive product launches, the Wearable Technology Conference is expected to attract 1,500 attendees, making it the biggest event of its kind in the world. Delegates will be informed, inspired and entertained during the two day event, for which just a handful of seats remain unfilled. With speakers from the likes of Google, Misfit Wearables, Fitbit, Microsoft, Mitsubishi, Virgin and Cisco, the conference will cover every aspect of wearable tech – from development and funding, to testing and manufacturing. Sessions, workshops and demos will drill down into the myriad of markets this technology...

Today, Ubisoft revealed that its highly anticipated open world action-adventure game, Watch Dogs, will be released worldwide on May 27, 2014. In Watch Dogs, players assume the role of Aiden Pearce, a new type of vigilante hero who, with the help of his smartphone, will use his ability to hack into Chicago’s central operating system (ctOS) to control almost every element of the city. “We are pleased to be able to reveal to gamers all over the world the new release date for Watch Dogs,” said Geoffroy Sardin, EMEA Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Ubisoft. “We are extremely confident that the additional time we afforded the dev team to refine and polish the game will be more than worth the wait.” Players who purchase Watch Dogs on either PlayStation 3 or PlayStation 4 will have exclusive access to 60 minutes of additional gameplay...