Gabrielle Zevin Believes Games Show People Who They Really Are
55 years ago

Gabrielle Zevin Believes Games Show People Who They Really Are

Wired  

In her new novel, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin presents playing video games and understanding each other as kindred activities. In telling the story of game designers Sam and Sadie, Zevin probes at many of the themes that energize video games as a medium: their narrative depth, their therapeutic value, their casual violence, their toxic industry. The first generation of people to play video games as children were born in the late ’70s, and early ’80s, in America. Look at Pong in the ’70s, with the extreme minimalism of two lines and two dots, compared to where the book ends in about 2012: You get to games that have really cinema-quality graphics and storytelling experiences, something like The Last of Us.

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How a dire shortage of video game consoles helped prove that gaming boosts mental health
4 months, 3 weeks ago

How a dire shortage of video game consoles helped prove that gaming boosts mental health

LA Times  

A run on Nintendo Switches and Sony PlayStations during the pandemic had the unintended consequence of allowing researchers to test whether gaming causes changes in the mental well-being of players. But experiments like these don’t reflect the way people play video games in real life, Egami said. While it’s difficult to interpret the exact size of the effects, they “seem …

7 Shocking Benefits of Playing Video Games According to Scientists
2 years, 6 months ago

7 Shocking Benefits of Playing Video Games According to Scientists

News 18  

Parents don’t like to see their kids play video games all day and not go out. Surgeries are often important to save someone’s life, which would lead people to think that surgeons wouldn’t be wasting their time playing video games. Leadership Due to the nature of recent games which reward leadership traits, researchers noted that players can have a similar …

How online gaming has become a social lifeline
4 years ago

How online gaming has become a social lifeline

BBC  

How online gaming has become a social lifeline Alamy Gamers have known for a long time something that everyone else is starting to figure out: there’s community connection on the other side of a screen. Alamy Gaming has skyrocketed during the pandemic, especially ones that connect you online with friends; games over video chat have replaced in-person happy hour for …

Should we be playing video games now?
4 years, 9 months ago

Should we be playing video games now?

Salon  

"Can I ask you a weird question?" Games, unbound as they are from the weight of the real world, help us experiment with possible outcomes, giving us the freedom to be and act as we would in "normal" — that is, less fearful — circumstances. He described it as "a beautiful vacuum of time" and said he'd already spent hours …

From my coronavirus quarantine, a love letter to video games
4 years, 9 months ago

From my coronavirus quarantine, a love letter to video games

LA Times  

My favorite childhood bedtime stories were not “Charlotte’s Web” or “The Hobbit.” No, my most treasured nighttime texts were “King’s Quest” and “The Secret of Monkey Island.” Guybrush Threepwood, the hero of “Monkey Island,” would never be mistaken for a creation of Robert Louis Stevenson, but he was perhaps the first pirate to come equipped with a rubber chicken — …

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