Curated Video
Cosplay rules the floor at packed at opening day of New York Comic-Con
COSPLAY DOMINATES PACKED OPENING DAY AT NEW YORK COMIC CON
Curated Video
VR travel packages for stay at home gamers
LEADIN:
Gamers in Hong Kong who don't like travelling can now visit foreign countries with their very own VR travelling partner.
The VR Travel Friend is just one of the new gimmicks on display at this year's...
Bloomberg
Blind Video Game Developer's Mission to Make Play More Accessible
Oct.13 -- In this edition of Bloomberg Equality, Scarlet Fu sat down with Brandon Cole a video game developer who is completely blind and works with studios to develop video games that are accessible to those with visual impairments.
Curated Video
The Rise Of E-sports
The popularity of competitive games is driving millions of dollars and eyeballs into e-sports.
Lesson Planet
EdTech Tuesday: Classroom Video Games with Mat Frenz
Are you curious about ways to use students' interest in video games to enhance their learning? Listen as Mat Frenz from GlassLab Games discusses the similarities between video game design and lesson design and how educators and...
PBS
Career Connections | Animator
Hey, kid! How'd you like to work in television? Commercials? Movies? Advertising? Video games? Check out this video that's all about what it takes to become an animator.
Crash Course
Let's Make an AI That Destroys Video Games: Crash Course AI #13
Now that we've made a video game, we might as well figure out how to beat it. Scholars create simple video games and then program an AI to defeat them in the 13th installment of the Crash Course Artificial Intelligence series. They...
Crash Course
Symbolic AI: Crash Course AI #10
If you think logically, AI is all about symbols. An instructional video explains the development of symbolic artificial intelligence. Viewers see how AI translates problems of interest into symbols and then apply propositional logic to...
Common Sense Media
What is Twitch?
Young gamers are itching to use Twitch! Learn more about a popular online gaming community website through a short digital citizenship video. Topics include Twitch content, following fellow gamers, and monitoring explicit language and...
Common Sense Media
What is Steam?
Play games, connect with friends ... Steam is a teen's dream! Scholars learn more about the popular Steam social gaming website through a digital citizenship video. The resource reviews the site's features and benefits, including great...
TED-Ed
How I Responded to Sexism in Gaming with Empathy
Listen as Lilian Chen describes her experiences with sexism in the Super Smash Brothers gaming community, and explores topics like bullying, gender imbalance, social dynamics, and feminism.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Artificial Intelligence: Symbolic Ai #10
This type of AI is used broadly in video games and in expert systems like those that manage inventory at grocery stores and set rates at insurance companies. We'll show you how we represent symbols and their relations, teach you how to...
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Rap Nerdy to Me
MC Frontalot and Dr. Awkward rap about data encryption, video games and the nerd life.
Crash Course
Crash Course Games: #7: Nintendo and a New Standard for Video Games
This video [9:02] focuses on Nintendo and a new standard for video games; it is the 7th lesson in Crash Course Games. After the North American Video Game Crash of 1983, Nintendo of Japan, originally a playing card company, which had seen...
Crash Course
Crash Course Games: #28: The Pokemon Phenomenon
This video does something a little bit different and takes everything we've learned so far about games and apply it to a case study on (arguably) the biggest game franchise in the world: Pokemon. Now Pokemon, like a select few other...
AsapSCIENCE
Asap Science: Can Video Games Make You Smarter?
Find out if video games can be good for you, and if they can they make you smarter. [4:13]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Intro to Games and Visualizations
This JavaScript video lesson discusses the basics for writing codes for video games and other visualizations. This video lesson from Khan Academy is intended for students who are taking an introductory computer programming course.
Other
Asian Community Development Corporation: Participatory Chinatown
Learn about and discuss this interactive game which allows real people to be involved in developing Boston's Chinatown. Creating political alliances, meeting together, and networking while facing language and monetary barriers are some...