Response to Game Design Degree Overwhelms University

George Mason University, a school based in Fairfax, VA known for their basketball teams run in the 2006 Final Four, found early and surprising success with their new Computer Game Design degree. The university’s goal for the program was to get 110 students in it by 2012. Their expecatation have been shattered with around 200 students already enrolled into the program. [...]

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Rowan Gamers

With Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 having the biggest launch across all forms of entertainment and your mom hogging the computer to play Farmville all day, there are more and more gamers emerging each and everyday. So I’ve created this piece to highlight the new and veteran gamers alike here at Rowan University. Name: Tim Vitale Major/Year: Physics and Secondary [...]

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Modern Warfare 2 Developing Studio Dead?

Since the departure of the two heads of Modern Warfare 2 developing company, Infinity Ward, more and more people are leaving the company, making some worried the team is dead. Though the team looks to be slowly crumbling, a member of the company says the situation is bad but not fatal. The two former heads, Vince [...]

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High School Play About Game Addiction

The School of Performing Arts at the Middlesex County Vocational and Technical Schools in East Brunswick, New Jersey is performing a play based around video game addiction. Jennifer Haley, an LA-based playwright, wrote the play in 2006. The story revolves around neighborhood kids who get overly obsessive of a new game entitled Neighborhood 3: Requisition of [...]

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Grand Theft Auto Used to Teach Children Right From Wrong

Instead of Grand Theft Auto being the cause of violence, a program in Merseyside, England  is using it to prevent violence. Educators use images from Grand Theft Auto, Bugs Bunny cartoons, and the Itchy and Scratchy cartoon from The Simpsons to provoke discussion about the real-world consequences of violent actions. This program is a collaborative [...]

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Full Green Day: Rock Band Set List Revealed

Following the hugely successful The Beatles: Rock Band, Harmonix is set to release their second band-exclusive title, this time with a more modern band. Green Day will get the Rock Band treatment come June 8th and Entertainment Weekly just received the set-list. The bands two massive albums, 1994′s Dookie and 2004′s American Idiot are completely [...]

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Decoding Gaming: A Timeline of Video Game Controversy

Since its initial release decades ago, video games have faced aggressive protest and heated controversy. The following is a thorough time-line of the games that sparked controversy and shaped the industry we see today. Video Game Controversy on Dipity.

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Breakthrough for Disabled Gamers with Eye-Controlled Pong

Engineering students from Imperial College London have developed an eye-controlled controller in order to allow severly disabled people to enjoy games. According to Kotaku “The students and their faculty supervisor think the technology is proof of concept for creating more complex eye-controlled games, while also enabling eye control of wheelchairs or cursors on a computer [...]

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Fundraising Video Game Tournment Following Tragedy

The University of Nevada will hold a fundraising video game tournament following the death of Angela N. Peterson, an Anthropoligist and Physchology major at the school as well as an avid gamer, by a drunk driver November 29th, 2009. Student organizations at the University including Hormones and Diseases Group, Anthropology Society, Lambda Alpha, Circle K [...]

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