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30 lucky students were awarded $3,000 each for the 2012-2013 academic year by the Entertainment Software Association Foundation to help them become amazing innovators in the entertainment software industry. The winning students are studying in a large number of fields including computer science, animation, programming, graphic design, digital entertainment, and software engineering in schools all over the United States. To paraphrase the president and CEO of the ESA, Michael D. Gallagher, these students are the next generation of creative geniuses that are going to blow our minds with crazy and awesome new tech and continue to imagine cool new toys. Congratulations to the winners, and good luck to all of you who are working toward making life better and more fun for all of us. I can't wait to see what you'll create. Did you know? You can now get daily or weekly email notifications when humans reply to your comments.
11:00 AM on 05.16.2013 Study claims piracy isn't as bad as publishers tell youThe Electronic Software Association will tell you piracy is so bad, 10 million nefarious downloads of 200 games can happen in a single month. According to an independent study, the ESA might be overestimating by a c...
9:30 PM on 04.16.2013 Summer game design programs increase in popularityNew data put forth by the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) shows a promising increase in the availability and popularity of videogame design programs within U.S. summer camps. With more than 100 camps and 690 programs...
8:45 PM on 02.05.2013 E3 to hold a college game competitionA new program launched by the ESA for E3 will have the best student games showcased at this year's show. The E3 College Game Competition lets an institution with a game program submit one game representing their college,...
1:30 PM on 10.29.2012 ESA raises $800,000 at 15th annual Nite to UniteThe Entertainment Software Association Foundation raked in $822,000 at its 15th annual Nite to Unite for Kids game industry black tie event this past October 18 in San Francisco. These funds go into ESAF's grant and scholarsh...
6:30 PM on 10.17.2012 ESA Foundation awards $90,000 in scholarships30 lucky students were awarded $3,000 each for the 2012-2013 academic year by the Entertainment Software Association Foundation to help them become amazing innovators in the entertainment software industry. The winning studen...
3:00 PM on 08.22.2012 Infinity Blade studio does Obama/Romney fight simulator[Update: It's gone live early and is available now.] Usually, cute little games in which political opponents fight each other are the realm of Flash-based site ads, not well-known development studios. ChAIR, however, has deci...
9:00 AM on 07.30.2012 E3 confirmed to remain in Los Angeles until 2015During this year's E3, it was reported that the Electronic Software Association was considering a new city in which to host the famous trade show. After it was discovered that the organization had big news for us on...
10:30 AM on 01.26.2012 California to pay ESA $950,000 for failed case legal feesCalifornia tried to establish unconstitutional regulations on videogames and failed miserably. Brown v. ESA had the Court voting 7-2 to Alpha Counter a 2005 California law that would put an unlawful lock on game distribution....
3:35 PM on 01.20.2012 ESA pulls support for SOPA and PIPA, shrugs nonchalantlyThe Entertainment Software Association has released a new statement regarding SOPA and PIPA now that we've stirred things around a bit. And would you look at that: the support for these proposals have been pulled.&n...
10:15 AM on 01.17.2012 ESA spent $190,000 to support PIPA lobbyistsThe Entertainment Software Association has come under heavy criticism for its express support of SOPA, but recent detective work has uncovered a far sleazier transgression -- Kotaku reports that the ESA spent a reported $190,...
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