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Michael Kasumovic, UNSW Australia and Tom Denson, UNSW Australia There’s abundant research – and controversy – on the effects of playing violent video games. But, more »
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The latest article exploring sexism in academia suggests that it no longer exists. Some have already grumbled about flaws in the study’s design. But more more »
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By Michael Kasumovic You likely couldn’t outswim Alicia Coutts or Ian Thorpe, or lift half of what Damon Kelly or Seen Lee can, but I more »
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By Michael Kasumovic Step aside Olympians – the new sporting pursuit of choice may soon be professional gaming. Electronic sports (or esports) are now mainstream, more »
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With all the new indie and zinester style games being released, it’s time to add a section that highlights some of the wonderful games that more »
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Unfortunately, sexism is common place in much of society. From wage equality to health coverage for birth control, women seem to have to justify to more »
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Questions of what why individuals play violent video games are currently at the forefront of psychological research. Most studies, however, examine video game choices through more »
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Studies of video games often focus on the effect they have on children. But given that the majority of gamers are adults and that we more »
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The pleasure centers in our brain respond to positive outcomes and winning is no different. Yet, beating different opponents may have different values to a more »
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“…there maybe great value in understanding video games as something children choose to do rather than something done to them.” This idea, grounded in self-determination more »
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Here is a wonderful little game that allows you to take up the story of being a male cuttlefish exploring the ocean in search of a female to mate with. It’s a fun little story that mixes human emotions with the biology of cuttlefish, ...
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I love skylanders. And given that it’s more than a 1.5 billion dollar enterprise, it seems that I’m not the only one. Now, I don’t love Skylanders like I do games like Deadspace, Borderlands and Mass Effect, I love it for completely different reasons. I ...
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Just like rock music in the 1950s, Dungeons & Dragons in the 1980s, and death metal in the 1990s, videogaming has been demonised by parent groups. For decades, gamers were portrayed as obese social outcasts that spent hours in a dark basement hunched ...
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**Update** If you’re interested in out how the class went, clickhere. If you’d like the manual, click here. As an undergrad, I detested labs. They were boring. Demonstrated by teaching assistants with a superior knowledge of the information I was meant to glean, somehow titrating ...
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You are a bear, winter is coming, so drive around and eat fish and berries to prepare to hibernate! Alright, this may be far fetched as a science based game, but the execution is just amazing! As the say in the video: “The best ...