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Okay, let’s get one thing straight before we dive into this. Dungeons and Dragons is cool now. While many will probably recognise…
The battle royale mode attached to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare has been raking in the player numbers, which makes…
Back in the days before everyone was fretting and stressing over a virus slowly spreading itself across the country, our…
Now more than ever before, the stakes are getting higher in professional gaming. E-sports should be taken seriously as both an occupation and a form of leisure. Riot Games, the developers of desktop juggernaut League of Legends, is even taking the game into Monday Night Football territory with its own weekday broadcast of the game’s major tournament.
The video games industry is worth more than movies and music combined, with more than 2.5 billion players around the world. Freemium games have driven much of the success, ever since titles like Angry Birds, Farmville and Candy Crush emerged in the late 2000s and early 2010s.
Some years ago, tired of scrolling through Netflix in search of something we hadn’t seen yet, I suggested to my partner that we play a video game instead. Not the gaming type, she wasn’t too keen on the idea, but I promised something where she didn’t have to “aimlessly collect things”. The game we played was Dear Esther, which is part of the burgeoning trend in “literary video games”
It is one thing to learn about history in a classroom. But as any visitor to a living museum or historic site can tell you, a fantastic way to learn is to make a personal connection.
It’s that time of the year again — the Electronic Entertainment Expo is on and we’ve seen some stellar game trailers so far.










