The research found little evidence that time spent on social media or frequent gaming causes mental health problems in early-to-mid adolescence.
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While businesses spend heavily on consultants, you could build these skills at home.
’Tis the season for tabletop games – bringing people together since 2500 BCE.
An overnight update to Counter-Strike 2 erased billions of dollars in valuable digital assets that players had accumulated. The law gives them almost no recourse.
Serious games go beyond entertainment to connect with real-world problems.
The video game company is being acquired for a record-breaking US$55 billion. Despite being named ‘The Worst Company in America’, why is it so in-demand?
Games with ‘loot boxes’ should be classified for over-15s – but a new study shows many of the most popular mobile games completely ignore the rules.
Almost 60% felt that they do not play enough games to consider themselves a ‘gamer’ and more than 30% would be embarrassed to call themselves one.
When the quest for attention meets a platform for edgy content, plenty can go wrong.
Targeting adult NSFW video games could have knock-on effects on queer creators and sexual education content.
Payment processing companies have ceded to pressure from an ‘anti-porn’ group, causing Steam and itch.io to ban tens of thousands of games almost overnight.
Parental controls designed for children’s games can be confusing. They also don’t take into account how families may — or may not — communicate.
New research highlights how game makers can design for trans-inclusivity – because if we want trans joy in the world, we will have to design for it.
What works over a weekend of play may falter over week-by-week seasons of television, experienced years apart.
A political scientist – with a penchant for gaming – explains how Minecraft, League of Legends and Civilization VII can help teach key international relations concepts.
We saw Sony adjust prices for the PS5 mid-generation in response to production costs. So there’s no reason to assume the Switch 2 price will remain static.
Research has shown that spending long periods on social media and gaming sites exposes young men and boys to incel content.
One of the characters is based on Yasuke, a formerly enslaved black man from Mozambique, who worked for the Japanese war lord Oda Nobunaga.
Even after the pandemic lockdowns were lifted, out-of-home activities and travel remained substantially depressed, far below 2019 levels.
A major update for dating simulation game Love and Deepspace has furrowed brows – it now includes a period tracker.
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Professor in Human-Computer Interaction, ARC Future Fellow, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Digital Cultures, Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, School of Film, Media, and Creative Technologies, University of Portsmouth
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PhD Candidate in Recreation and Leisure Studies, University of Waterloo
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Associate Professor in Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds
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Associate Professor, Film, Screen and Creative Media, and Associate Dean Engagement, Bond University
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Researcher, Digital Wellbeing, Western Sydney University
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PhD candidate researching children's play in digital games, The University of Melbourne
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Postdoctoral research fellow, RMIT University
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PhD Candidate, Sydney Games and Play Lab, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Game Design, University of Portsmouth
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Chair in Science Communication & Future Media, University of Salford
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Assistant Professor of Media Studies/Game Studies, University of Oregon
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Director of the International Gaming Research Unit and Professor of Behavioural Addiction, Nottingham Trent University
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Research Fellow in Responsible Artificial Intelligence, University of Southampton