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A northern white rhino has died. There are now five left in the entire world. Angalifu was 44 when he died of old age on Sunday at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park.

This is awesome!

Lumino City: A Handmade Paper Video Game by State of Play For nearly three years, a six-member team of developers called State of Play has been toiling away in a London studio making a new video game. While there are probably thousands of such teams around the world coding away into the night, the members of this team are a bit different. Among them are

Happy to have the Global Gaming Initiative working to help people through fun and socially responsible games!

Today, reminds us that our dollar can do so much more than shop a bargain. It reminds us that we have the power to change a life and that a selfless act can feel even better than a new pair of pants. Join us in our movement, play our games, and watch the world get a little bit brighter.

Here's another interesting game. In this one, you play as some people trying to eek out a living and/or survive during a years-long war. It's sort of like Don't Starve meets a 2D Call of Duty.

This War of Mine on Steam In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle.

A cool and free mobile game about malaria!

Outbreak Responder Strategy Game Brings Awareness to Malaria Prevention Global Gaming Initiative has released its newest game, Outbreak Responder, which aims to educate players about malaria and raise money for its prevention.

The most trafficked creature you've never heard of CNN's John Sutter goes undercover in Southeast Asia to learn why this bizarre, scale-covered mammal -- which has been called a walking pinecone and a modern-day dinosaur -- is trafficked by the ton.

This looks very interesting!

RIOT - Game that tells the story of conflict and social unrest / RIOT http://ca-n.in/1fMcm3a »

Great story about the creation of an interesting indie game: Papers, Please http://www.edge-online.com/features/the-making-of-papers-please/

Way to go, Microsoft!

Zoo Tycoon offers ways to finally make Kinect work for the good of the world - Quarter to Three Zoo Tycoon, one of the more low-key launch titles for the Xbox One, is offering players ways to help real-world animals. According to the Xbox Wire, Microsoft Studios is letting the player community vote on which of three challenges they can participate in. When the community attains the goal of the...

Awesome community engagement with a simple game

Arduino Video Game for the Neighbourhood / by @NeuroProd Kris Temmerman's house/office has a store window that he tries to make use of as much as possible. In the past he built projections but really wanted to make something interactive so he made an old fashion arcade box anyone can play.

2013 in review: the year wildlife crime became an international security issue | Jessica Aldred Jessica Aldred looks back at some of the year's biggest wildlife and natural world stories

Tiny Speck, creators of the shuttered Glitch, have released all art assets from the game into the public domain. There's some great stuff there for budding game developers!

Glitch A game of giant imagination.