psychology
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Atari’s New Centipede Comic Is More Brilliant And Heartfelt Than It Has Any Business Being
Every so often, you come across a comic that throws you for the sort of loop that makes you pause a few pages in and think, “I wasn’t at all prepared for how damned good this is.” Atari and Dynamite’s new Centipede series, based on the classic 1980s video game, is definitely one of those…
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Bringing Sports Psychology To The Realm Of Video Games
It probably wasn’t coincidence that Shane Murphy returned my call just after I’d thrown my third interception in NCAA ’09 and punched off the machine in full perfectionist disgust. Murphy, a professor and researcher of psychology at Western Connecticut State, would later explain that I exhibited classic high-ego, low-task gamer behaviour. That is, I am…
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How A Government Body Ended Up Helping An Australian League Of Legends Team
The culture of team houses was always going to make its way to our fine shores at some point, but with Australia being somewhat behind the 8-ball in terms of esports infrastructure it’s only inevitable that it took a while before major associations, like the opening of last week’s ASUS ROG Gaming House, came to…
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Virtual Worlds Can Be As Fulfilling As Real Life
Forthcoming Australian research in the Australian Journal of Psychology surveyed 1,945 gamers over the age of 14 and explored whether MMORPGs were associated with relatively greater life interference and psychopathology.
