30 lucky students were awarded $3,000 each for the 2012-2013 academic year by the Entertainment Software Association Foundation to help them become amazing innovators in the entertainment software industry. The winning students are studying in a large number of fields including computer science, animation, programming, graphic design, digital entertainment, and software engineering in schools all over the United States.
To paraphrase the president and CEO of the ESA, Michael D. Gallagher, these students are the next generation of creative geniuses that are going to blow our minds with crazy and awesome new tech and continue to imagine cool new toys.
Congratulations to the winners, and good luck to all of you who are working toward making life better and more fun for all of us. I can't wait to see what you'll create.
7:45 PM on 10.07.2012 //
Jonathan Holmes
Liberation Maiden is one of the four games from Level-5's Guild 01. It was suddenly released in Europe last week, with a US release pending for this year. The lovely Nintendaan has already got a video to share with us of the... more
10:45 AM on 08.30.2012 //
Jim SterlingNo More Heroes returns to your life as a free-to-play social mobile game. Something tells me that the unique blend of F2P, social gaming, and the mobile market isn't having NMH lovers jumping for joy. In fact it seems perfect... more
10:00 PM on 08.26.2012 //
Jonathan HolmesThis past weekend, Grasshopper Manufacture and Kadokawa games held a "Lollipop Chainsaw Summer Appreciation Event" in Japan. It's awesome that GhM and Kadokawa appreciate their game, but what did consumers think of it?
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1:00 PM on 07.20.2012 //
Jim SterlingThe videogame industry has had a fair few controversies pertaining to gender equality lately, with both Hitman: Absolution and Tomb Raider coming under heavy criticism for the way women have been used in their marketing. Acco... more
4:00 PM on 07.18.2012 //
Jim SterlingLove it or hate it, Lollipop Chainsaw has opened the floor for some interesting discussions, especially with regards to its portrayal of women. Is it objectifying female game characters? Is it subverting that object... more
12:00 AM on 07.15.2012 //
Kyle MacGregorKadokawa Games, Grasshopper Manufacture's publishing partner in Japan, has announced that the ever so divisive Lollipop Chainsaw has reached the 100,000 mark in terms of domestic shipments. Suda 51's game never tend to d... more
10:30 AM on 07.09.2012 //
Jim SterlingToday has been officially recognized as the seven-year anniversary of Killer7, one of the most awe-inspiring and beautiful videogames ever created. Seven years ago today, the game launched in Japan. It actually came to North ... more
1:00 AM on 07.02.2012 //
Kyle MacGregorEven as a massive Suda fan I'll be the first to admit that Lollipop Chainsaw hasn't been my favorite release of the year. Despite our glowing review of the title, it's had a pretty mixed reception around the co... more
10:30 AM on 06.29.2012 //
Jonathan Holmes
[Talking to Women about Videogames is a series where Jonathan Holmes talks to different people who are women about the biggest videogame news of the week for some reason.][Header art by Linzb0t.]
Out of all of Grassho... more
3:00 PM on 06.21.2012 //
Jordan DevoreIn case you missed it among the wave of posts during the week of E3, Digital Reality and Grasshopper Manufacture are in the process of bringing their currently Xbox Live Arcade-exclusive shmup Sine Mora over to PlayStation Vi... more