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12th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards to Honor Missile Command/Tempest Creator Dave Theurer With Pioneer Award, First Amendment Lawyers Ken Doroshow and Paul M. Smith With the Ambassador Award. Theurer to be Recognized for Creating Classic Arcade Titles that Paved the Way for Shooters; Doroshow and

"The 12(th) Annual Game Developers Choice Awards (GDCA), the peer-awarded highest honors in video game development, have revealed the recipients of two of its Special Awards - the Pioneer Award, given to developers for creating breakthrough video game genres or concepts, and the Ambassador Award, given to those who have helped the game industry advance to a better place. "

The International Serious Play Awards is a recognition program honoring outstanding examples of single player serious game titles that deliver high quality of engagement and measurable training or learning opportunities. Any organization or individual that has created or contracted for a serious game or simulation using commercial off the shelf (COTS) platforms is eligible to enter the International Serious Play Awards Program." Deadline May 31, 2012, June 30, 2012 for student entries

Nominations accepted until Feb 1, public voting open March 1, awards April 3, 2012

VIDEO game developers at Nottingham Trent University scooped top awards at a design event. The teams of designers were challenged to create new games in just 48 hours. One Trent team took first prize at the IndieCity Global Game Jam category for their multiplayer game Flerbs, in which players have to guide jellies from one flag to another.

39 students awarded total prizes of $90,000

Looking for sponsorship to save high school digital media awards in Canada, DIGIS

"A WOMAN from Aylesbury has won a top competition to design a video game for the iPhone. Catherine Forsyth's team won the first ever UK competition to set up, make and design their own computer games, held at the Gadget Show Live at Birmingham's NEC."

Game Developers Conference, prizes to be awarded March 2012

Applications accepted for the Gamers in Real Life Scholarship Program, with one $10,000 scholarship ultimately awarded. Deadline March 29, 2012

indiePub announces video game development competition. Deadline for entries is December 15, 2011. Awards to presented at SXSW, March 9-11, 2012

"Today, the U.S. Department of Education announced the final winners of this year's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awards-funds that are reserved for entrepreneurial small businesses using cutting-edge R&D to develop commercially viable technologies to solve tough problems. And there's something that may surprise you about the winning contracts: More than half-or 12 in all-are for games and game-related projects, more than in any previous year. That says a lot about the increasingly creative field of educational games, and the growing base of evidence indicating that games can be an important and effective component of our strategy to prepare a highly skilled 21st century American workforce."

From the abstract: "This paper examines the state of the art in narrative creation and writing for video games and simulations, and proposes a methodology for writing dynamically immersive branching dialogue. Conclusions reached are based upon the author's research and development as head writer for the First Person Cultural Trainer (FPCT), UTD Arts and Technology's multi-award winning training simulation."

More Than $100,000 Awarded to Students and Educators by The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop and E-Line Media WASHINGTON, May 22, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The winners of the National STEM Video Game Challenge, a competition to motivate interest in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) by learning, playing and making video games, were announced today at The Atlantic's Technologies in Education Forum in Washington, DC.

(Design, Innovate, Communicate, Entertain) Summit,15th annual Interactive Achievement Awards on February 9, 2012,

3rd annual Indie Game Challenge

TEMPE, AZ--(Marketwire - Dec 9, 2011) - The IEEE announced Tellus as the winner of the second contest in the SAVEEARTHGAME Playable Game Design Competition. The Tellus team created and submitted a fully functional game that challenges players to save the Earth based off real-world data and issues. IEEE collaborated...

Method for generating avatar with input from the game player, patent awarded to Lyle Corporate Development

A 13-year old's game, winner in several categories in National STEM challenge, is recognized at White House science fair.