1，据game industry的消息称Disney旗下的手机游戏Star Wars Commander在发行三周后全球下载量为500万次。

尽管Star Wars Commander从一开始在舆论上就被认为这是众多Clash of Clans山寨品中的一款。但从目前来看，下载效果还相当不错。

Star Wars Commander(from gameindustry.com)

2，按照ESA提供的链接显示全美50州有390所相关科研教育机构针对游戏提供学位。详细的学校分布情况可以访问 。

一般情况下，洛杉矶南加州大学、坎布里奇麻省理工学院、盐湖城犹他大学、雷德蒙德的迪吉彭理工学院、温哥华艺术学院、罗切斯特理工学院、朴茨茅斯的州立肖尼大学、萨凡纳艺术设计学院、阿尔伯克基的新墨西哥大学、伍斯特的贝克学院、费城的德雷塞尔大学、普莱诺的南卫理公会大学、匹兹堡的卡耐基梅隆大学、坎布里奇麻省理工学院、奥兰多的中佛罗里达大学等被认为是全美最顶尖的游戏教育机构。

Video game degrees(from gameindustry.com)

3，据Venturebeat的消息称，在将一手打造的Oculus VR以20亿美元出售给Facebook之后，Brendan Iribe向马里兰大学捐赠了3100万美元用于virtual reality方面的研究。（本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译，拒绝任何不保留版权的转载，如需转载请联系：游戏邦）

Oculus VR(from oculusvr.com)

1，Star Wars Commander, the free-to-play mobile titles, has reached the 5 million downloads milestone in the three weeks since its launch on August 21.

Publisher Disney Interactive has released a handy infographic to celebrate the news, which reveals that 58 per cent of Russian players have chosen to play for the Dark Side, while 57 per cent of Chilean players favour the Rebel Alliance.

“All of the content is accessible to anyone who wants to install and play through the game: you can get to all the [solo] campaign content, and you can play PvP. You are able to buy crystals to accelerate timers if you’re in a rush and want to progress faster, but all the content can be unlocked by anybody,” Disney Interactive’s executive producer and vice president of operations, Nathan Etter, told The Guardian in August.

“We’re also very cognisant that this is a competitive game, with that player-v-player component. It’s important to us that there isn’t a pay-to-win strategy, so we make it a level playing field for everyone who’s playing the game.”

The Walt Disney Company bought Star Wars studio Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion in October 2012.（source：gameindusty ）

2，According to statistics released by the ESA, United States educators are taking video games more seriously than ever before.

Three hundred and ninety colleges, universities and other academic institutions across all 50 states now offer professional certificates, undergraduate and graduate degrees in the subject, an increase of 50% over 2009′s total of 254.

The greatest number of courses can be found in California, where 73 are available, followed by 26 in New York and 24 in Illinois and Texas.

President and CEO of the ESA Michael D Gallagher said of the news: “Today’s colleges and universities are responding to student demand for high-quality and innovative video game design programs.”

“This explosive growth in video game education is the rocket fuel that will propel this industry to new heights,” he added.

The ESA, or Entertainment Software Association, is a trade organisation that works to promote the video game industry. It maintains a list of all game design courses in America on its website.

Drew Davidson, director of the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University welcomed the news, adding: “This is only going to increase the influence video games have in our culture as students graduate with more of a critical grasp of the unique capabilities of games, and apply that in their careers and lives.”

The news follows the foundation in July this year of The Higher Education Video Game Alliance, an organisation that seeks to bring universities and colleges offering these courses together and represent them to the outside media.（source：gameindustry）

3，After selling the virtual reality startup Oculus VR to Facebook for $2 billion, Brendan Iribe has a lot of money. The chief executive of Oculus VR, the maker of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, is using that money to make a $31 million gift to the University of MarylandThe gift is the largest in history for the university in College Park, Md. Iribe, a UMD alumnus, is giving the money to fund construction of the Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Innovation, and the remaining $1 million will establish the Brendan Iribe Endowed Scholarship in Computer Science. The center will encourage the study of virtual reality, which is a 3D computing experience that immerses the participant in a believable virtual world.

In addition, Oculus chief software architect and co-founder Michael Antonov, a graduate of UMD from 2003, is donating $4 million to the university. Most of this gift — $3.5 million — will support construction of the building. The rest will fund scholarships. Elizabeth Trexler, Iribe’s mother, is also donating $3 million to establish two endowed chairs in the Department of Computer Science.（source：venturebeat ）