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Literary Video Games, Part Two

April 13, 2020 Thomas Vose GameRT, Games

By Thomas Vose In the previous article in this series, we looked at games based on books from earliest written history up until the 16th

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Literary Video Games, Part One

April 6, 2020 Thomas Vose GameRT, Games

By Thomas Vose Video games based on books are nothing new, and several big-name titles have literary inspirations. The Witcher games, enjoying a surge of

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GameRT Announces a New Grant Opportunity!

January 2, 2020 Thomas Vose GameRT, Resources

CHICAGO – The Games and Gaming Round Table of the American Library Association is proud to unveil a new annual grant program to enable libraries

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IGW 2018 Breakout: Get me home if you can!

November 5, 2018 GAMERT Games, Initiatives, International Games Week, Resources

International Games Week 2018 is excited to offer the digital breakout Get me home if you can!  Let us know if you can solve this

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Librarians Report

Librarians Report: Breakout EDU

October 17, 2017 GAMERT Initiatives, International Games Week, Resources

By now many will have heard of Escape Rooms, which are becoming increasingly popular across the nation.  Some libraries have done an escape room of

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Video game releases to watch for Holiday 2017

October 11, 2017 Thomas Vose GameRT, Games, International Games Week

With a huge array of new releases for the holiday season, all competing for limited program and materials budgets, here are a few highlights for

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Print and Play: Secret Hitler

October 9, 2017 GAMERT Games, Initiatives, International Games Week, Resources

Ready for International Games Week? We are getting ready by highlighting games that are available as free print and plays. This week we are highlighting

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Free Video Games

October 3, 2017 GAMERT Games, International Games Week, Resources

It’s a golden age for free video games. Every year, thousands of games – created by individual developers or small teams – are released for

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Print and Play Review: “Evolution,” North Star Games

September 24, 2017 Thomas Vose GameRT, International Games Week, Resources

Evolution (the print and play version is available here) is a card-based game about, well, evolution – specifically evolving species to protect themselves from predators

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Librarians Report

Librarians report: Dungeons and Dragons in the Library

September 18, 2017 GAMERT GameRT, Initiatives, International Games Week, Resources

For the last year, I have been running a once a week game of Dungeons and Dragons (D&D), at the Aberdeen Branch of the Harford

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