How 'crunch' time and low pay are fueling a union drive among video game workers
For months, Andrés Vásquez's days working on the first-person shooter game "Doom" blended into one another.
Feb 1, 2023
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Online gaming enhances career prospects and develops soft skills, finds new study
Online gaming behavior can encourage gamers to gain a variety of soft skills which could assist them with training to support their career aspirations, according to new research from the University of Surrey.
Nov 29, 2022
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Motion and volumetric capture animation tech breaks barriers
The possibilities have been broadened for creators in a variety of fields with cutting-edge animation technology at Swinburne University of Technology's Center for Transformative Media Technologies (CTMT).
Nov 11, 2022
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Call of Duty's latest battle is between Microsoft and Sony
Hunting down your enemies on the bustling streets of Amsterdam, along the U.S.-Mexico border or in a Middle Eastern fishing village is just part of the intense action in the latest Call of Duty video game.
Oct 27, 2022
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Smelling in VR environment possible with new gaming technology
An odor machine, so-called olfactometer, makes it possible to smell in VR environments. First up is a "wine tasting game" where the user smells wine in a virtual wine cellar and gets points if the guess on aromas in each ...
Oct 13, 2022
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Apple flexes muscle as quiet power behind app group
The App Association brands itself as the leading voice for thousands of app developers around the world. In reality, the vast majority of its funding comes from Apple Inc.
Sep 21, 2022
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How 'GamerGate' led the gaming industry to embrace more diverse and caring values
Video game developers have always sought to "find the fun" for their audiences and to provide players with exciting worlds to escape to. However, the cost of "finding the fun" was highlighted in 2014 when women in the games ...
Sep 12, 2022
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Gaming does not appear harmful to mental health, unless the gamer can't stop
Societies may tremble when a hot new video game is released, but the hours spent playing popular video games do not appear to be damaging players' mental health, according to the largest-ever survey of nearly 40,000 gamers ...
Jul 27, 2022
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New study describes multi-agent systems for optimization and decision-making through games
In artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems can be thought of as a society of individuals (agents) that interact by exchanging knowledge and by negotiating with each other to achieve an individual/global goal. In real ...
May 10, 2022
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Gamers want more chances to connect with star players and developers at physical esports events
Professor Babak Taheri from the Marketing and Consumer Studies Research Centre at Nottingham Business School (NBS) surveyed 549 League of Legends spectators, interviewed 13 World of War Craft players and immersed himself ...
Apr 11, 2022
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