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AI And The Metaverse Were Leading Trends At The 2023 Global Game Developers Conference
1San Francisco’s Game Developers Conference (GDC) – the global gathering of the greatest creative minds in the games industry – opened its doors for the second time since the pandemic in March 2023. Each year a number of key trends stand out. For 2023 it was applications of artificial intelligence (AI) for game development, with…
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God of War Ragnarök Breaks New Ground for Accessible Gaming, Here’s What More Developers Can Do
Digital games are a bigger part of our culture than ever before. Over 50% of people in the UK, Europe and US are now gaming regularly, regardless of age or gender. Only recently, however, have developers begun consistently designing gameplay options for players with disabilities. This has been a major talking point with the release…
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5 Games That Will Get The Next Gen Off To A Better Start
Recent research has linked playing video games in childhood with an increase in intelligence. While parents and carers may be pleasantly surprised by these findings, they are less unexpected for many researchers of children’s digital play.
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How Online Games Are Shaped By The Communities That Play Them
In 2015, well before the first iteration of r/place – a celebration of the collaborative chaos of online spaces – Reddit ran another curious experiment called r/thebutton. The now inactive page once hosted a large red button at the top of its feed next to a 60-second countdown timer. Each individual user could only press…