Video games aren’t only for kids. A new report shows that older Australians are embracing games, for a variety of reasons.
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Some of the harassment women face while playing video games could be due to bully tactics employed by lower status men.
This exclusion of games from artistic funding in this year’s budget follows the cancellation of the Interactive Media Fund in last year’s budget. Where to now for the Australian videogame industry?
What gives horror-themed computer games their kick, and why do so many of us like it?
Our study found that those people - including women - who are most interested in sex play the most violent games.
There may be a chemical secret to getting kids interested in learning – and it’s one that’s created and produced by our own bodies rather than in a lab.
If early videogames are really that good, they’ll still hold up today – right?
After a new study found no link between the hours a person spends gaming and their cognitive abilities, we look at the evidence.
Academic papers are often cherry picked to support our prevailing views. We need to be careful to acknowledge the complexities of many issues explored by science.
Football games are now watched through a haze of statistics, generated by betting, fantasy football and video games.
Parents could certainly do more to be aware of what their children are playing. But threatening letters are unlikely to help.
We’re hardwired to love finding patterns, solving puzzles, mastering challenges. Business, education, health, marketing and other fields tap into these drives via game elements to help us hit goals or change behavior.
Annual awards bring annual success for the industry’s traditional giants.
Awards ceremonies need to celebrate the small and beautiful, not just the big and bold.
Eye tracking devices sound a lot more like expensive pieces of scientific research equipment than joysticks – yet if the latest announcements about the latest Assassin’s Creed game are anything to go by…
Buttons open to the waist, skin gleaming with sweat, hair tousled, intriguing flashes of curves … men on the covers of classic romance novels, or “bodice rippers”, are objectified in many of the same ways…
“Don’t put all your eggs in one basket” is a common refrain. But usually it is not followed by the words “because your neighbours may kill you”. However, this is precisely the scenario faced by some female…
The latest instalment of wildly popular videogame Call of Duty, Advanced Warfare, shows the narratives of today’s games can reveal the motives behind real-world politics. Over the past decade, fictional…
The UK’s video games industry body Tiga has called for the products to be treated like other creative industries such as television or film, rather than mere “software”. There is a good argument for this…
Computers have shaken up how we create and listen to music, and there is more radical transformation to come. The potential for digital music to be interactive is leading to new ways to experience and…
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Associate Professor, Queensland University of Technology
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Evolutionary Biologist, ARC Future Fellow, UNSW
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Professor in Human-Computer Interaction, ARC Future Fellow, University of Sydney
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Director of the International Gaming Research Unit and Professor of Behavioural Addiction, Nottingham Trent University
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Senior Lecturer in Digital Cultures, Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor in Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds
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Researcher, Digital Wellbeing, Western Sydney University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Film, Media, and Creative Technologies, University of Portsmouth
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Professor of Media
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Professor in American Media and Culture, University of Kent
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Professor of Psychology, Stetson University
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Lecturer in International Business, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Associate Professor of Labour and Employment Relations, DAN Department of Management & Organizational Studies, Western University
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PhD Candidate in Recreation and Leisure Studies, University of Waterloo
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Associate Professor of Communication Studies, West Virginia University