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One of the characters is based on Yasuke, a formerly enslaved black man from Mozambique, who worked for the Japanese war lord Oda Nobunaga.
Playing online can help children explore and trial their developing identities.
A major update for dating simulation game Love and Deepspace has furrowed brows – it now includes a period tracker.
Over 85 million people played The Sims in 2024.
The Sims normalised the idea that games didn’t need to be won to be fun.
The Sims’ players can enjoy a gaming experience that’s as diverse as they are.
All of these games are easy to get hooked on. And best of all, they don’t require hours of commitment or any prior gaming experience.
Grand Theft Auto 6 is already winning awards and it’s not even out yet
Fiverr’s game development ecosystem serves as a microcosm of larger concerns about labour practices in the gaming sector.
COVID might have closed the theatres but the show went on in Grand Theft Auto.
In China, many people see video games as ‘spiritual opium’. However, laws restricting young people’s play have proven difficult to enforce in practice.
Roblox has just made some changes to its wildly popular gaming platform that could actually make it safer and better for kids.
As the COP29 summit gets underway and zero-emissions goals seem further away than ever, video games could provide new pathways for people to imagine plausible low-carbon futures.
The video game is helping China advance toward two strategic goals: bolstering domestic semiconductor production and putting Chinese culture on the global stage.
The game allows players to free Sun Wukong, the monkey protagonist from the popular 16th century novel ‘Journey to the West,’ and introduces players to the complexity of Chinese religion.
Novels have provided source material for games for years. Here are four examples of games that wear their literary inspirations on their sleeves.
The success of Black Myth: Wukong is fuelling China’s chip manufacturing ambitions.
China could be considered the sleeping lion awakening in the global gaming industry. And there’s plenty of ‘soft power’ to be exerted through its ventures.
A large survey showed links between gaming and wellbeing and found a way to show cause and effect – that even owning a gaming console improved wellbeing.
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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