Super Smash Bros. Brawl is a brawling, battling, action-packed
video game that features
Worms: A
Space Oddity
This is the classic Worms game with a twist! The ultimate merging
of the classic Worms game modes with all new party games. Experience
Worms with the Wii.
Bully: Scholarship
Edition
This game takes place in a fictional New England boarding school,
and tells the story of 15-year-old Jimmy as he deals with the
highs and lows of adjusting to a new school.
Immerse yourself in the open roads of Paradise City…
from the downtown streets to the chaotic freeways to swerving
mountain roads. This is the ultimate driving arena to compete
in car racing!
Print Resources about
Games & Gaming
Everything Bad is Good
for You: Why Popular Culture is Actually Making Us Smarter
by Johnson, Steven
Johnson presents an examination
of popular culture in America, and suggests--with examples
from research--that vehicles of mass media and entertainment
such as television and video games are evidence of an
increasingly sophisticated cognitive culture that makes
the mind measurably sharper than in the past.
Got Game: How the Gamer
Generation Is Reshaping Business Forever by
Beck, John, and Mitchell Wade
Got Game examines the impact the
gamer generation will have on the future of business,
and maintains that gaming has created a generation of
employees with risk taking, multitasking, and leadership
capabilities.
Smartbomb: The Quest for
Art, Entertainment, and Big Bucks in the Videogame Revolution
by Chaplin, Heather
Videogames are no longer a quirky
subculture, but a mainstream industry revolutionizing
the way we teach, the way we learn, the way we communicate.
Smartbomb goes into the center of the videogame explosion,
where computer technology is fused with artistic creativity.
What Video Games Have
to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy by Gee,
Paul
One of America's most well-respected
professors of education, Paul Gee, looks seriously at
the good that can come from playing video games. Gee is
interested in the cognitive development that can occur
when someone is trying to escape a maze, find a hidden
treasure and, even, blasting away an enemy with a high-powered
rifle.
