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Tag Archive: Edutainment
Edd April 1, 2021
Pikachu Press, the official publishing imprint from The Pokémon Company International, has released “Pokémon Primers,” a new series of books for young children to journey into the world of Pokémon while learning about subjects like the alphabet, numbers, shapes, and…
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Edd June 9, 2017
What is it? Type: Rider is a platformer game that takes you through different time periods and fonts. It’s a fairly casual play through and offers some nice visuals and a pleasant soundtrack to boot. Platform(s) PC, PS4, Xbox One,…
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Edd May 27, 2017
What is it? Spy Fox in Dry Cereal is an edutainment game released in the 90s by Humongous Entertainment. It’s a standard Humongous point and click adventure, with a sarcastic James Bond parody leading the cast and attempting to resolve…
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Edd October 3, 2015
What is it? Influent is an edutainment game designed to help users learn new languages. You control a person walking around their one bedroom apartment and everything you can see, you can click on to find a translation for it,…
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Edd June 15, 2015
What is it? Are puzzles your thing? Think you’re a mathematics whiz? Simon Wallace’s 123 is probably the game for you then. Even if you just like a challenge but aren’t particularly good with numbers, the game does offer difficulty…
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Edd June 14, 2015
Learning a language these days can really boost your employability, but actually finding the time to sit down and study can be an incredibly difficult task. Fortunately, we’re living in a time where people are coming up with new and…
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Edd May 27, 2015
What is it? Edutainment at it’s finest. Learn to be a touch typist by slaughtering thousands of zombies with your keyboard as your weapon. It follows the story of two cops and two strippers on their quest to bring the…
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Edd May 14, 2015
Edutainment is often indicative of a simple, boring game. When I think of edutainment, my mind is cast back to those terrible learning games I had when I was a youngster in school, where you had to select the right…
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