The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has endorsed the creation of the Olympic Esports Games, an important chapter for both Olympic sport and video games.
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A pioneering effort that allowed a teenager with a neck injury to play pinball sheds light on today’s vibrant community of esports players with disabilities.
Some of the most essential but least protected workers in a $200 billion industry want to ensure that AI won’t do away with their jobs.
Shakespeare’s work has been adapted into video games many times, most notably in Elsinore (2019), and has also been the subject of multiple game-making contests.
A history professor recounts how being indoors during the pandemic led him to rediscover his fondness for video games – and to bring it into the classroom as well.
The prevailing human reaction to the idea of artificial intelligence has always been fear, revealed in the way film has portrayed our increasingly important relationship with AI over the years.
Role-playing games that take players into the lives of their characters can help us empathize with the very real suffering of others experiencing war and other disasters.
What if we could experience the mind of another person in a video game?
No video game workers are currently unionized in Québec, but a new labour partnership is looking to change that.
A brilliant post-apocalyptic tale that expands the lore of a universe fans of the game love.
New research reveals the hidden costs of ‘gamification’.
Songwriting, theatre, rap and graphic novels have won literary awards, but video games remain an overlooked part of the wider literary canon.
In Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley, restoring harmony with nature against exploitative forces is key to the game’s narrative.
Cosy, personal games, as I discovered, can change the lives of the people who make them and those who play them.
In the game, power is found in a natural world that is not tampered with or controlled – just as in Jansson’s stories.
People young and old love the classic video game Tetris. A working knowledge of the spatial reasoning concepts underlying Tetris can set students up for success in mathematics.
Recent waves of layoffs shine a light on the systemic issues in the game industry and the post-graduation promises universities are making to students.
Many English teachers are thinking seriously about how gaming applies in their classrooms. But opinions are divided about how to approach it.
Whether they’re heroic or inscrutably weird, video game records reveal a lot about play, cooperation and the drive for perfection.
Electronic sports, or esports, is a practice that is often looked down upon. But it is a growing global phenomenon played on an incredible scale.
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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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