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...most effective learning comes from a combination of methods. This video game is part of a move to find new and innovative ways to talk to students using new technology.” Despite Kaplan’s positive outlook, David C. Haley ’10, a seasoned gamer, isn’t convinced that it will make a dramatic difference. “Although this is a nice idea, unless kids want to play it of their own volition, it is the equivalent of forcing them to read a book,” Haley says. But Kaplan isn?...
...single, and gave up two extra-base hits while allowing three runs in the inning. That, however, was the only offense the Tigers would generate all game.Haviland surrendered six hits and three runs, while fanning eight in six innings of work.“He’s a gamer,” Vance said. “Every time he goes out we expect to get the win.”In the third, Harvard looked poised for a big inning. Freshman Dillon O’Neill led off with a single, Vance drew a walk, and junior Matt...
...media activities you're focused on, not having all aspects of the sector covered," says a Vivendi official who asks not to be identified. Indeed, though Vivendi recently reacquired control of French telecom Cegetel, which it sold after Messier's departure, and is merging its games division with U.S. gamer Activision to create Activision Blizzard, the official says its strategy is significantly different from Messier...
...love video games. I played my first one--it was Pong--when I was 7. I feel lucky to be part of the first generation of gamers. I also get to be a first-generation-gamer parent; my parents regarded games with a primitive, chimplike suspicion, but my daughter Lily will have a parent who understands them and plays alongside her. A cool parent...
...like a Warcrack intervention, minus the scary scenes of confrontation.THE SOCIAL GAME OF WOWBut while social interactions pull some players out of the game, it also draws some in.Nadler, who at level 58 was the lowest-ranked player of the four interviewed, is what one might call a social gamer. He began playing the real-time strategy game Warcraft 3 with his freshman year roommates, moving to World of Warcraft the next year after he discovered that one of his roommates had been playing it in secret.“I had qualms,” he says...