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.
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. Last September, its U.N. -Habitat agency teamed up with Mojang to launch a program called Block by Block.
It will use Minecraft to digitally reimagine 300 run-down public spaces in the next three years, giving people who live near them the chance to chime in on how they might be improved. 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 Creating safety together. Minecraft. Teaching Scientific Concepts Using a Virtual World - Minecraft | Dan Short. Kinect Lesson Plans: Teaching Math & Linear Functions with Kinect.
Teacher's Guide to Kinect: How to Program for Kinect and Gesture-Based Learning.