With the boundaries between film and game eroding, why are more people not exploiting the potential for cross-media creations?
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Artículos sobre Video games
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The ability to track where you are looking on screen opens up new options for video game players and developers. But is eye-tracking technology a gimmick or a game changer for the gaming industry?
Victorian police are attributing a rise in car thefts to the “Grand Theft Auto Generation”. But blaming video games just distracts from bigger questions of inequality and societal detachment.
An experiment providing interactive games for orang-utans is showing the potential for digital technology to enrich the lives of zoo animals.
They may offer a cloak of anonymity, but you can peep behind the veil and learn a little about who’s at the controls.
Australian game developers compete on a global level, but some governments are more supportive of their local industry.
While it’s impressive, developing a computer to win at Go is not a big step toward the type of artificial intelligence used by the thinking machines we see in the movies.
Alice has always trail-blazed through new and uncharted territory, and this is no less true of her ventures into the 21st century.
Do you run wild in Fallout, or vicariously hunt zombies in The Walking Dead? Three philosophers investigate the enduring appeal of the post-apocalypse.
How did we go from videogames played in bedrooms to watching live in front of an audience of millions?
The US$17 million prize pool at The International Dota 2 Championships shows how much the industry has grown over the past decade.
Baseless claims about the damage done to kids’ development create needless panic. And they distract from legitimate, evidence-based concerns with which parents need to engage.
Video games aren’t only for kids. A new report shows that older Australians are embracing games, for a variety of reasons.
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.
Principales colaboradores
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Senior Lecturer, Queensland University of Technology
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Evolutionary Biologist, ARC Future Fellow, UNSW 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, SOAR Fellow., University of Sydney
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Associate Professor in Politics, University of Leeds
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Researcher: Digital Literacy and Digital Wellbeing, Western Sydney University
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Associate Professor, Swinburne University of Technology
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Lecturer in Digital Cultures, University of Sydney
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Professor of Psychology, Stetson University
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PhD Candidate in Recreation and Leisure Studies, University of Waterloo
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Lecturer, Faculty of Creative & Cultural Industries, University of Portsmouth
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Professor in American Media and Culture, University of Kent
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Knight Chair in Interactive Media; Associate Professor of Communication, University of Miami
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Professor of Computational Media, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Florida
