Back in August, Massively wrote a little post about Swedish research on MMOs and language learning. That article provoked me, a gamer and teacher of English for speakers of other languages (ESOL), to ...
Mark has been thinking and writing about games since a Gameboy Pocket and a copy of Link's Awakening was first placed into his tender, seven-year-old hands. Since then, he snagged a creative writing ...
Babbel, the Berlin-based language-learning platform, today announced that it is now going well beyond its core app-based learning service and is introducing live classes. Capped at six students, these ...
If your lexicon has stagnated a bit since your SAT-studying days, it may be time to expand your vocabulary. After all, there’s nothing like a word no one knows to break the ice in awkward social ...
As a part-time English teacher, I always tell my students the best way to motivate yourself to learn another language is to engage with something you're passionate about in that language: whether that ...
By Amy "Frankie" Felegy for Arts Midwest. Broadcast version by Mike Moen for Greater Dakota News Service reporting for the ...
Moss was one of E3 2017’s surprise hits, telling a story from the perspective of a tiny, adorable mouse using the PlayStation VR headset. Since mice don’t speak, however, the game’s animation director ...
When you live in a country that seems to get every game by default, it's easy to take things for granted. Sure, we've had a history of congresspeople attempting to demonize video games, but our ...
In a useful accessibility move, Microsoft will now let you see exactly which languages are supported in Xbox games on the Microsoft Store and Game Pass app. Even better, the company is breaking down ...
If there is anything most gamers remember about Conker, it’s that this little squirrel had one serious potty mouth—and so did everyone else he encountered. The entire Conker series is riddled with ...