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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…
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How Gaming Is Teaching Us How People Respond To Emergencies
Virtual reality and augmented reality aren’t just for gaming anymore, they’re also proving to be useful tools for disaster safety research. In fact, they could save lives.
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The Metaverse, Explained
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg recently announced the tech giant will shift from being a social media company to becoming “a metaverse company”, functioning in an “embodied internet” that blends real and virtual worlds more than ever before.