Teacher's Guide to Kinect: How to Program for Kinect and Gesture-Based Learning

Minecraft & the shared, creative safety of gaming, social media Reporters and reviewers write about Minecraft as if it’s just like any other videogame. Even this highly readable piece about its creator (Markus Persson, aka “Notch”) and its parent company (Mojang) by Harry McCracken in Time magazine doesn’t cover what makes it different from other games specifically for its kid (and parent) players. But he does bring out this extraordinary differentiating factor: “No less lofty an authority than the United Nations sees Minecraft as a tool to improve human life. Screenshot of kid-created builds on the Massively @ Jokaydia server in Australia (the young players and parents are all over the world, though). Distributed and shared safety As for what might interest Minecraft players’ families is not only how it’s different from other videogames but what it shares with all social media: distributed, collective, and/or shared safety (pick one adjective, but they all work). Creating safety together Safety can also be a creative effort in game worlds.

Nintendo faces 'path to irrelevance', says Atari founder 6 September 2013Last updated at 19:18 ET By Dave Lee Technology reporter, BBC News Atari founder Nolan Bushnell says Nintendo could be on a "path to irrelevance" Nintendo, whose latest console has sold poorly, could be on a "path to irrelevance", the founder of legendary games company Atari has said. In an interview with the BBC, Nolan Bushnell said the Japanese firm was left in a "very difficult position". Games analysts have drawn parallels between Atari's doomed Jaguar console in 1993 and the struggling Wii U. Mr Bushnell said Atari had been "abused by corporate charlatans" after a "glorious beginning". The 70-year-old had been speaking at Campus Party, an event held at London's O2 Arena in which thousands of developers, staying in tents, worked together on various collaborative technology projects. Founding father Mr Bushnell, who gave a keynote speech at the event, now runs an educational software company called Brainrush. 'Motion sickness' Atari was behind ground-breaking early video games