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.
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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.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has endorsed the creation of the Olympic Esports Games, an important chapter for both Olympic sport and video games.
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.
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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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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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Associate Professor in Politics, University of Leeds
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Researcher: Digital Literacy and Digital Wellbeing, Western Sydney University
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Lecturer in Digital Cultures, University of Sydney
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Professor of Psychology, Stetson University
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Lecturer, Faculty of Creative & Cultural Industries, University of Portsmouth
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Associate Professor of Communication Studies, West Virginia University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University
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Knight Chair in Interactive Media; Associate Professor of Communication, University of Miami
