Tag Archives: Research

Games Studies and The Sociology of Video Games

Posted on January 29, 2017 by

Having started upon a path towards advanced degrees with an emphasis in interactive media and online communities, it has increasingly become evident to me that there is no singular route to studying the emerging field of video games. As I … Continue reading →

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New Research Finds Adult Men are Choosing Video Games Over Full-Time Work

Posted on September 24, 2016 by

It’s the end times my friends: Video games are destroying our economy. New research coming out the Princeton, The University of Chicago, and University of Rochester has found a correlation between the abundance of high quality video games and uneducated … Continue reading →

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Block’Hood: Can a Video Game Change How We Design a City?

Posted on March 9, 2016 by

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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ESA: Essential Facts About Gamers and Politics

Posted on November 7, 2015 by

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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Pew Research Center’s 2015 Findings on Console Ownership

Posted on November 5, 2015 by

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 →

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Report on the Status of Teens’ Use of Technology in Social Life

Posted on August 17, 2015 by

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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Time’s “Everything You Know About Boys and Video Games Is Wrong”

Posted on July 10, 2015 by

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 →

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Study Shows Link Between Excessive Gaming and Behavioral Issues

Posted on April 12, 2015 by

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 →

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New Study Shows Benefits of Narrative in Video Games

Posted on April 10, 2015 by

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 →

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New Study Suggests Violent Video Game Releases Coincide with Low Crime Rates

Posted on October 2, 2014 by

Quick one today folks! Another week, another article claiming that violent video games have X effect on society. There seems to be a pendulum with these types of studies; one article will claim to have found a link between violent … Continue reading →

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