Loco Roco Better Than Books
In some cases anyway. A school in the city of Japan’s Chiba is giving way to a new method of teaching their fractions.
With Sony Computer Entertainment by their side, the non-profit organization ACE – the Association of Corporate and Education – came up with a way of teaching multiplication and division of fractions to children using the LocoRoco characters to explain problems that make these kids scratch their heads in angst.
The aim of the session was to explain the method logically so that students would understand why the method works. The overall fanciful presentation was based around a Flash game with the LocoRoco characters following a story that saw the concepts being explained, followed by worksheets for practice. Fun.
PSP Hardware Charts in Japan… Wait isn’t that supposed to be DS?
It is true! The PSP has bested the Wii and DS. In a three-way battle for supremacy over in Japan, about a million miles away, the PSP has emerged the victor. For now at least. Media Create’s sales charts, that cover March 10, 2008 to March 16, 2008, leaves the PSP at 57,651 units. Beating the Wii sales which are at 55,845 units and the DS Lite’s at 55,266 units. Hit the jump for more.
Puzzle Quest: Bejeweled On ‘Roids
The sensation of matching jewels together, watching them disappear and setting off an atomic chain reaction, netting me an enormous amount of points. Puzzle Quest is the best puzzle game I’ve played since Bejeweled. That’s because this game is Bejeweled, only better thanks to some minor design choices that make this game a compelling package only a fool would overlook. Puzzle Quest tries to shake up the puzzle-genre by adding a story and RPG elements to distance itself from the thousands of freeware clones on the net and carve out its own unique existence in the gaming universe.
New IPs For EA Sports
Just when you thought that EA Sports couldn’t get any fatter they go and get a couple of new IPs to fill themselves up. EA buying more stuff? Wow what a shocker there.
In an interview with GeekPulp, Todd Sitrin, vice president of global marketing for EA Sports, talked a hair about a new boxing game called Face Breaker. Also going on and on about the future of EA Sports.
“We actually have three new original IPs in development. The only one that’s been announced is FaceBreaker. We haven’t done an original IP at EA for several years — not since back to Freekstyle Motorcycle … we want to create new experiences and deliver that to consumers, and we are excited about it.” Todd explained.
What if Face Breaker does kick 2K’s boxing franchises booty? Won’t happen! You know why? Because pigs do not fly they walk, and to even think that you can contend with 2K is just crazy. Just kidding people. It is EA Sports. I mean what could possibly go wrong?
Infinity Ward Sick Of WW2
As if the war wasn’t bad enough, the onslaught of WW2 games are sure to leave you wondering that you can not possibly be the only person to hate them. Don’t worry! Infinity Ward, the makers of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, is with you. They grew an ever such animosity with World War II shooters, which is why they went in the direction they did for Call of Duty 4–in the modern world. From an interview for the month’s Developer magazine:
Call of Duty 4 was Infinity Ward’s third Call of Duty game, and as such we approached it knowing we needed to do something fresh. We do not want to pigeonhole ourselves any more than we have to, and many members of the team came off Call of Duty 2 promising never to work on another WWII game….We do not agree with some critics who say that WWII as a genre is dead, but we couldn’t muster the same passion for the subject that we had in our first three WWII games.
For the rest of us who are in love with these ever-coming WWII Shooters, we can put on our helmets as Treyarch is to the rescue! What if there were no many WWII FPS’s? The world would end as we know it! Or…it just might be saved?
