Testing Your Mind – The Video Games Where No-one Gets Shot
The popular view of video games seems to be that they entail someone sitting with a controller in their hands, shooting people on a screen. Of course, this is a Continue Reading
The popular view of video games seems to be that they entail someone sitting with a controller in their hands, shooting people on a screen. Of course, this is a Continue Reading
It is hard to talk about video games for a long time without mentioning Grand Theft Auto. And it is hard to mention Grand Theft Auto without talking about the Continue Reading
Some time around the middle of the 1990s, there was a widely held belief that the future of video gaming was the Virtual Reality headset. In the future, we were Continue Reading
Hands up if you have heard someone say “those video games are no good – they rot the brain and poison the mind“, or something that approaches that attitude in Continue Reading
Although the present generation are frequently attacked by their “elders” for the way in which they behave, it is fair to say that there is a certain amount of that Continue Reading
You will hear it said a lot, if you spend much time around gamers or their friends or parents – or indeed if you yourself are a gamer. The word Continue Reading
One of the things that is used as a stick with which to beat the gamer is the idea that gaming is a “fantasy world“. Some people do believe that Continue Reading
The rise of sport simulations on video game consoles started a few decades ago, but the advances that the medium has made since then are quite something to behold. There Continue Reading
The popularity of video games has changed in ways more subtle than many of us ever give credit for. Yes, it has become a growth industry due in no small Continue Reading
A clever comedian once said that the idea that video games influence human behavior is a ludicrous one, pointing out that if the games we played in the 80s had Continue Reading