New Edition of Develop Magazine

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Develop mag - the magazine for European games developers - is now available for free download at the developmag.com website. Just go to developmag.com/print-edition to download it. You'll need to register if you haven't already but it's worth it.

Development Giants Join Dare to be Digital

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Some of the biggest names in the industry will be assessing and mentoring students throughout the game development competition.

The biggest names in gaming are getting involved in this year’s Dare to be Digital game development competition.

Full details here:

Development giants join Dare to be Digital | Game Development | News by Develop

Games in Schools

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LinkedIn: Discussion: Game Based Learning

Brand new research results and live web cast next week from Games in Schools project!

Two new reports will be released on 5 May, unveiling exciting examples and evidence of teachers' use of games across the EU. The same day, the final conference is taking place in the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, and a live webcast will be in place so you can follow the proceedings, and even ask questions via the social platform NING.

For more info, visit: http://games.eun.org

Play SEGA Online

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SEGA have launched an online game playing site with lots of free games available.

Is this a way to monetise relatively old intellectual property and give it a new lease of life?

I hope that whoever invented Sonic the Hedgehog is on a royalty and not a flat fee.

PlaySEGA

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Welcome to the Development Blog

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This is the blog for the development of a new HND qualification, entitled Computer Games Development. It will record the various stages in the production of this new award. So this blog should be useful to anyone who may be interested in offering this qualification (when it’s available) and wants to keep up-to-date with how it is coming along.

There is already an HNC award in this area (HNC Computer Games Development) and this development will build on that qualification.

I’m hoping that most of the Qualification Development Team (QDT) contributes to it at various stages in the project, and I also hope that readers will provide feedback via the comment facility. Here’s hoping it’s a success.

If you want to talk to someone about this project, call Caroline on 0845-213-5476.

NB This is the new version of the blog that was previously located at http://hndcomputergames.wordpress.com/. Sadly Wordpress has been putting too many obstacles in the way of updating the blog.

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