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Block’Hood: Can a Video Game Change How We Design a City?
Releasing tomorrow as an early access title on Steam is Block’hood, an isometric neighborhood-building simulator. The game gives players more than 80 types of blocks to create unique and ecological neighborhoods and promotes players to find the optimum solution to … Continue reading
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Tagged education, Gaming, Research, sociology, technology, Video Games
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ESA: Essential Facts About Gamers and Politics
Oh Electronic Software Association, you’ve given me an early Christmas present. The ESA is the foremost data collector of statistics and data on video game consumption, usage, and attitudes. Annually this blog reports on their essential facts about video game … Continue reading
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Tagged esa, Gaming, politics, Research, sociology, study, Video Games
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Pew Research Center’s 2015 Findings on Console Ownership
Less progressive parts of the gaming community are in an uproar today, as a new survey suggest that more American women own video game consoles than their male counterparts. Should chauvinistic males flee the medium for fear of cooties? We’ll look … Continue reading
Posted in gaming, Research, Sociology, video games
Tagged Gaming, playstation, Research, sociology, study, Video Games, Xbox
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Report on the Status of Teens’ Use of Technology in Social Life
The PEW Research Group has recently released their 2nd of 3 reports on “Teens, Technology & Friendships”. PEW, which describes themselves as “a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world”, … Continue reading
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Tagged Gaming, parenting, Research, sociology, technology, Video game
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Time’s “Everything You Know About Boys and Video Games Is Wrong”
A new Time’s piece is claiming that everything you know about boys and video games is wrong. I don’t know if exclusive knowledge on either subject is false, but you may as well throw away all of your beliefs about … Continue reading
Study Shows Link Between Excessive Gaming and Behavioral Issues
SHOCKING HEADLINE: A new study posted in the Journal of Psychology of Popular Media Culture finds a correlation between playing games for an extended amount of time and behavioral issues in teenagers. KEEP THAT POKEMON AWAY FROM THEM TWEENS, OR YOU’RE … Continue reading
New Study Shows Benefits of Narrative in Video Games
Coming out of the University of Innsbruck and Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg, we have some research that probably won’t set the world on fire, but is interesting nonetheless. The study looks at the benefits of narration in video games … Continue reading
