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Students studying Games Design and Development at the National Film and Television School are to showcase their games in the Rezzed area at EGX 2016, stand RZ7:1-4, and RZ8:5-8. The games on show range from a cutting-edge VR experience that questions ideas on gender identity to an iPad game exploring a relationship between a roboticist and the android she has created.

If ‘Pokémon Go’ got more of us exploring outside with our smartphones, a new racing app is hoping to revolutionise the way we interact with the world around us.  Developed by students on Birmingham City University’s Gamer Camp and Interactive Entertainment courses, the app – ‘Xtreme Drone Racing Micro’ – uses geo-tagging technology to unlock tracks set in digital versions of real world locations.

The lions, tigers and bears of Detroit Zoo welcomed a new resident this week in the form of Pikachu. Players of Pokemon Go have been delighted to pick up a Pikachu at the zoo, as well as there being a total of 47 Pokestops and four gyms to help gamers out while visiting the animals in Motor City. Pokemon Go is the monster-hunting, augmented reality game that has people from all across the world getting up off their sofas and hunting for Pokemon in the real world.

Millions of parents are being left in the dark by their super-geek kids, according to new research. A study of 1,000 parents of children aged three to eight show two thirds didn’t realise their little ones were learning coding at school or nursery. Many admit being staggered to hear the youngsters babbling on about ‘hyperlinks’, ‘pop-ups’ and ‘downloads’. ‘Password’, ‘software’ and ‘icons’ are also coding words now used by the nation’s youngsters.