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Top 40 Educational Toys & Media for Students and Teachers – Spring…

Our product team works tirelessly to develop games that introduce educational concepts, spark curiosity, and practice fundamental learning skills throughout game play, and these awards underscore their commitment to excellence. APTOS, Calif. (PRWEB) May 27, 2021 Academics' Choice today congratulates all winners of the Spring 2021 Academics' Choice Awards, a prestigious seal of educational quality, reserved only for the best mind-building media and toys. The fall winners include teacher-approved, brain-boosting products from LeapFrog, Tynker, SimplyFun, Little Learning Hands, Games by Absolute Zero, da Vinci's Room, Sago Mini, Cybele's Games, Ubongo,

Humble Bundle Unveils The Covid-19 Bundle

Humble Bundle is a pretty big website and if you’re into PC gaming then you likely know of them from what they offer. Usually, there are a few video game bundle highlights that offer players a nice collection of video games at a steep discount. The incentive is to pay over the minimum to donate towards a highlighted charity. However, there is a store marketplace as well which allows players to purchase games individually. While Humble Bundle may not be as popular as the likes of Steam or Epic Games

Games Done Quick bring back all-women speedrunning event Flame Fatales for Summer edition

Games Done Quick is bringing back its all-women summer speedrunning events organized by its Frame Fatales community for a Summer rendition.  The Summer-themed Flame Fatales will run from Aug. 15 to 21 and aims to showcase some the skills of the women-in-speedrunning community. The weeklong event is a direct follow-up to last fall’s Fleet Fatales event, which raised more than $80,000 for the non-profit Malala Fund. As a whole, GDQ has raised more than $31 million for charities around the world, including Doctors Without Borders, Direct Relief, and more since

Complexity-Limit set to host Mythic+ Charity Pro-Am

The top WoW raiding guild in the world, Complexity-Limit, is hosting a newly conceived Mythic+ dungeon charity event next month with the help of a few partners. The one-day event on May 15 will include eight teams composed of pros, streamers, and amateurs facing off in a head-to-head style similar to what you’re used to seeing during Mythic Dungeon International events. The event begins at 11am CT on May 15 and will be broadcast on Complexity’s official Twitch Channel. The tournament’s $10,000 prize pool will be distributed among a variety

Humble Bundle to Cap Charitable Donations in Purchases

Top GamesHumble Bundle plans to kill its price distribution sliders, capping charitable donations at 15%. | Photo courtesy of Humble BundleHumble Bundle will start removing the sliders from its game bundle store pages in May, capping the amount customers can donate to charity with any given purchase and undercutting the company's charitable mission.When Humble Bundle launched in 2010, it gave players a chance to buy bundles of games to support charities at prices those individual customers chose for themselves. Customers could also choose exactly how much of each purchase went

Team DisguisedToast are the Winners of OfflineTV Charity Valorant Invitational

- Advertisement - Riot Games teamed up with online content creation group OfflineTV to conduct the OfflineTV Charity Valorant Invitational, a charity event that featured popular OfflineTV members and streamers battling it out in a Valorant tournament. After some intense battles between five teams, it looks like popular streamer DisguisedToast and his team have managed to come out on top, taking the lion’s share of the $70,000 prize pool for their charity, the Inspiring Children Foundation.  While Toast and his team pretty much dominated the tournament from the get-go, team

Ludwig breaks Ninja’s subscription record after over 30 days of streaming

After a 30-day subathon, Ludwig Ahgren has surpassed Tyler ‘Ninja’ Blevins‘ subscription record of 269,154 to become the most subscribed to channel on the platform. Ahgren’s subscription count is now over 271,000 at the time of writing. The content creator started his marathon stream March 14 and has been broadcasting, almost continuously, since. The record, set in April of 2018, is still out of reach for most. The next closest streamer is RANBOOLIVE at over 114,000 subscriptions according to TwitchTracker. Records are meant to be broken, I would be lying

After a tough 12 months, sim racing’s silver lining is its rise in popularity

Despite being one of the oldest genres in esports, sim racing can hardly compare to the most established battle-royale, shooter or MOBA titles — not in terms of viewership nor in terms of developed esports ecosystems.  George Russell became the winner of the first F1 Virtual Grand Prix. Credit: Formula 1 Some argue that motorsports are declining in popularity. In 2020, Formula 1 saw a decline in its global audience and unique viewers, with falls of 4.5 percent and 8 percent respectively. What’s more, the Indy500 saw a record-low domestic

Black Friday 2020: Everything we recommend this holiday

Get the most out of your game’s subscription plans Best practices for designing and managing your subscription strategy Access guide here I find it … discomforting … to write “Happy Holidays” in 2020. Will they be happy? I hope so. But with the coronavirus pandemic raging harder than at any point so far in the United States, and as other nations hit their second waves, I do want to find some way to spread some holiday cheer. And one way to do so is for me and my fellow GamesBeat