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iCivics teaches kids about politics, not partisanship

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August 5, 2017
4 min

Politics has become virtually inescapable, whether on social media or in games. For the nonprofit iCivics, this isn’t a recent development. Former U.S. Supreme...

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This Siggraph project lets you feel environmental effects in VR

Posted byby Jason Wilson
August 5, 2017
2 min

You can open a portal to a new environment just like in the movie Doctor Strange and feel the environmental effects on the other...

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World War Doh wins Casual Connect USA’s best in show

Posted byby Mike Minotti
August 4, 2017
1 min

The Casual Connect USA conference in Seattle earlier this week hosted the 19th Indie Prize Awards. It honored nine games from smaller studios across the...

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Hearthstone’s Knights of the Frozen Throne expansion will launch August 10

Posted byby Mike Minotti
August 4, 2017
1 min

Hearthstone fans might want to wear a jacket or something on August 10. That’s when the digital card game’s chilly new expansion, Knights of...

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Behold Grimoire, an RPG that launches after nearly 25 years in development

Posted byby Jason Wilson
August 4, 2017
2 min

A day that many old-school role-playing game fans thought would never come has arrived. Grimoire: Heralds of the Winged Exemplar has launched after nearly...

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GamesBeat weekly roundup: Blizzard’s rolling in players, and Grand Theft Auto Online revs up

Posted byby Mike Minotti
August 4, 2017
3 min

Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, Zynga makes money thanks to CSR Racing 2, Nintendo finally tells us when we can preorder...

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Star Trek: Discovery’s characters are heading to Timelines

Posted byby Mike Minotti
August 4, 2017
1 min

Star Trek is getting its first new show in almost 15 years, and the franchise’s mobile game, Timelines, is taking advantage. Developer Disruptor Beam...