Educational Gaming Commons - Press Start

The Educational Gaming Commons (EGC) Lab, located in Findlay 6A near East Halls, is now open!  In addition to being a general-purpose lab that anyone with a valid PSU ID Card can access, we are seeking faculty interested in using this space for teaching and learning.  Faculty have the ability to reserve the room, allowing students the opportunity to come into the space and leverage gaming hardware and software to support course work and research. 

The lab consists of a wide variety of software, a list that is constantly growing!  Some highlights:

PC Software - Games

• Warcraft 3
• World of Warcraft
• Black and White 2
• Fable: The Lost Chapters
• Civilization 3
• Age of Empires
• SimCitiy: Societies
• Half-Life 2: Episode 2
• Counter-Strike: Source
• Team Fortress 2
• Gary's Mod
• Portal
• Day of Defeat
• Fraps (video-capture software used in conjunction with games)

PC Software - Authoring environments

• Valve's Source Engine SDK
• Warcraft 3's map editor
• Microsoft's XNA Game Studio
• CMU's Alice
• MIT's Scratch

We also have an Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and Nintendo Wii, with games such as Rock Band, BioShock, Wii Sports, Assassin's Creed and more games arriving each week.

Please email gaming@psu.edu if you have ideas for using the lab or if you would like a tour.  If you require a game not listed here, let us know and we would be happy to obtain copies and get it running to support your course sections!