As a small game development company or startup, it’s hard to get noticed in a sea of hundreds of thousands of new games each year. This is one of the constant challenges for students embarking […]
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Can ‘Pokémon Go for Hackers’ Teach You Cyber Self-Defense?
A Drexel professor wants to help you think like a cybercriminal. Why? Well, as pervasive as cybercrime is — from portable card scanners picking up your personal and financial information via remote radio frequencies, to […]
Q+A: What Would an Ailes Exit Mean For Fox News?
In the midst of sexual harassment allegations, it appears that the departure of Fox News chairman Roger Ailes is imminent. Ailes, a former conservative political advisor, led the network to the top of the ratings […]
Q+A: Pokémon Go Introduces The General Public to Augmented Reality Gaming
Niantic, Inc., a San Francisco-based software development company, made waves in the world of mobile gaming July 8 when it released a mobile augmented reality game that is the latest edition of the wildly successful […]
Q+A: Running The 24-Minute Drill – Choreography Behind a Super Bowl Halftime Show
Even if the game on the field is a blowout, the intensity of the annual Super Bowl halftime show is undeniable. The modern show that strives to keep viewers glued to their seats during intermission […]
Graduating From The School of Rock
Last month Ian Farmer and Jake Ewald released their third album with the band Modern Baseball, this weekend they’ll officially become Drexel graduates. Turning pro before graduating — or instead of graduating — is often […]
Visiting a Real Jurassic Park — In Virtual Reality
Armed with 3D scans of the most complete supermassive dinosaur skeleton ever unearthed, and the latest paleontology and biomechanical research, a graduate student in Westphal College’s Digital Media program, is bringing a giant dinosaur to […]
Shelving Your Concept of ‘Library’
Temple’s Paley Library will be transformed into an interactive game environment this weekend. As with many of Philadelphia’s interactive public art displays in recent years, Drexel’s Entrepreneurial Game Studio has had a hand in shifting […]
Student-Designed Game Squeezes Out Competition at Intel Game Developers Conference
While the latest edition of the Princeton Review’s annual rankings once again slotted Drexel among the top 10 schools for game design, a group of Dragons set the program apart with a game that edged […]
Many Animals Were Helped in the Making of This Production
Westphal College of Media Arts & Design professor Brannon Wiles is a producer of a Broadway play called “Sylvia,” starring Tony Award-winners Matthew Broderick, Annaleigh Ashford and Julie White, which recently started a limited run […]