The same week social distancing measures were announced in Australia (March 16 – March 22), sales of game consoles leaped…
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The enjoyable little cooking game, Cooking Mama, was supposedly released and then quickly removed off the Nintendo Switch shop due…
UPDATE: BT Games have released an apology regarding the newsletter emailed yesterday. The Resident Evil 3 Remake will not be…
With Sony officially unveiling all the internals of the PlayStation 5, it’s finally time to run some comparisons. While Microsoft…
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”
The newly released Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is an open world survival game where you control a group of “hominins” – our first ancestors – and explore, expand, and lock in new knowledge so your “clan” can evolve.
In the wake of the El Paso shooting on Aug. 3 that left 22 dead and dozens injured, a familiar trope has…
While some people see video games as a means of living out fantasy, the truth is who we are in the virtual world largely reflects who we are in the real one. For instance, one piece of research has found that a player’s real values match their in-game decisions, suggesting that their true personality often gets reflected in a game scenario. There is also evidence that our ability to lead is strongly reflected in the way we form relationships in video games.
Video games are big business. Not quite as big as Apple in a bad quarter but still pretty big for…
Gamers won’t be surprised. We and our colleagues have discovered a link between people’s ability to play video games and…