This Month On Edge

When we weren’t doing everything else, we were thinking about stuff like this

The things that caught our eye during the production of E283

Following in the footprints of Raspberry Pi and Acorn’s BBC Micro, the Micro:bit is the British Broadcasting Corporation’s attempt to encourage more children to try coding – just as the BBC Micro did in the ’80s. The tiny device measures just 4cm by 5cm (considerably smaller than a Raspberry Pi), is powered by a 32bit ARM Cortex chip, and features two built-in programmable buttons, 25 red LEDs, an accelerometer, and a magnetometer. You can communicate with the board via Bluetooth, a microUSB connector or the three digital/analogue I/O rings. Created in collaboration with, among others, ARM, Samsung, Microsoft and

The Wellcome Trust, the BBC plans to have distributed one million free Micro:bits to schoolchildren by the end of the year.

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It’s taken ages…

…for Sega to realise releasing quality games is good business strategy

Friend cull

Companion App hype

is on the wane at last

Letterbox 360

Microsoft’s new video is honest about HoloLens’s

narrow field of view

Pier review

Time by the sea provides opportunity to get stuck

into Monster Hunter

quit

Yager bombs

How bad does a Dead

Island game have to be for Deep Silver to act?

Spoil her warning

Let’s keep our Her Story theories to ourselves, eh?

Arkham Knightfall

One of the poorest PC ports of modern times is rightly pulled from sale

A new Project

Forget all those Project

Cars bugs. Let’s crowdfund a sequel instead

TWEETS

RIP Satoru Iwata, this planet has lost him far too soon, but he helped create so much joy while he was here, and that will live on.

Rex Crowle @rexbox Creative lead, Media Molecule So sorry to hear about Mr Iwata’s passing. He was an unbelievable mind and talent, a passionate creative force. May he rest in peace.

Zelda Williams @zeldawilliams

Actress Whenever Mr Iwata was in the office, he’d change his 3DS StreetPass message to “Hello NOA!” Was a company president that cared.

Andrew Kelly @AndrewNK Former Nintendo Of America PR Extinguish all the lamps in the world Make a pitch-black night With that powerlessness Can you please just do that for me? Shigesato Itoi @itoi_shigesato

Designer, EarthBound series