“Cozy gaming” offers emotional comfort, community and a sense of control through low-stakes, repetitive play. It also features worlds where relationships are transactional.
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People form as strong attachments to gaming universes and can mourn their loss as keenly as physical places.
The spread of a virtual disease in the online game World of Warcraft appeared to have relevance to understanding real world epidemics like COVID.
Sexual harassment and discrimination in gaming and tech are not inevitable or permanent, write experts in the field. The solutions are positive community standards and women in power.
The gaming industry is plagued by accusations of discrimination and harassment. Companies must realize that a commitment to equity and diversity on paper is worthless without real action and change.
Sexual harassment and discrimination in gaming and tech is not inevitable or permanent, write experts in the field. The solutions are positive community standards and women in power.
It’s not proper representation if you have to go hunting for it or if players can choose to leave it out of their gameplay.
Play video games and learn a language – a researcher explains why it might be possible.
The vast majority of video game movie adaptions are commercial and critical failures. But with big budgets, dedicated fans and real talent involved, what’s going wrong?
Is there a way to objectively measure players’ subjective enjoyment of any given video game?
Warcraft: the Beginning is based on the wildly popular game World of Warcraft – a fantasy escape for tens of millions of people. Yet watching the film brings home uncomfortable truths about race.
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Barrett Hazeltine Professor of the Practice of Engineering, Brown University
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Assistant Professor of Sport Management, Syracuse University
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Director of Public Interest Technology and Stuart Rice Honorary Research Professor, UMass Amherst
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Assistant Professor of Media Studies/Game Studies, University of Oregon
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Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Florida
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Associate Professor in Psychology, University of East Anglia
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Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Lecturer in EFL (English as a Foreign Language), University of Lancashire
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Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Professor and Director of Doherty Epidemiology, The University of Melbourne
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Teaching Professor in Digital Media Studies, Ontario Tech University
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Senior Curator of Australian and First Nations Art, National Gallery of Victoria, The University of Melbourne
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Instructor, Department of English, University of Winnipeg
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Assistant Professor of Human Factors, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
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Professor of Psychology, Wichita State University