Scholastic Media, a division of Scholastic Inc. announced a collaboration with Intel Corporation to design interactive gaming content for kids and families, featuring Intel's RealSense technology that enables voice and gesture interaction, and showcasing two of Scholastic's most iconic global franchises, Clifford the Big Red Dog(R) and I SPY(TM). The game demonstrates Intel's RealSense 3D camera and the portable all-in-one (pAIO) PC's ability to create more natural human interaction and immersive experiences. The pAIO is a new category of PCs which offer the performance of a full PC inside a sleek, lay-flat, battery-based design with a larger, high definition screen and multi-user functionality.

Together, the technologies encourage kids ages 3 and up to become active participants within Clifford stories using motion-based interactions, or voicing story elements, to advance the experience while learning core literacy skills and reading fundamentals along the way. The game features four interactive animated adventures that allow players to interact with their favorite Clifford characters; each adventure features three replayable activities that build early reading skills such as phonics, vocabulary, rhyming and logic. 'Clifford's Reading Adventures' multi-player features can be played solo or with a partner.

Scholastic and Intel will also partner on 'I SPY Challenger' -- the interactive multiplayer board game that promotes collaborative play for kids ages 6 and up with a multiplayer feature for up to four players. The game boasts more than 60 I SPY riddles with classic seek and find play with a twist; there are three different play modes, simultaneous multiplayer and speed rounds. Additionally, two fast-action puzzle games challenge players with more than 90 collective rounds of play.

Players are rewarded with points and achievement badges for objects found in riddles and rounds completed within the games, and special tokens earned throughout the game that offer time, single player, and blocking advantages. Both games will be available for Windows Desktop and Windows Metro -- and several new games are in development for through 2015.