‘Dark Souls’ videogame: Themes of ruin harken to images popularized by European Romantics two centuries ago
'Dark Souls' is set in Lordran, a fantasy version of a mythologized medieval Europe. (Bandai Namco)September marks the 10th anniversary...
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Apple is losing the innovation game, it can’t trap users anymore
Not only is Apple suffering from a major lack of hardware innovation but it’s also being outdone in software and...
How Pokemon Go turned couch potatoes into fitness fanatics without them even realising it
Gotta catch 'em all. Stoyan Yotov / Shutterstock.comPokemon Go is taking the world by storm. Within days of its US...
How Minecraft could help teach chemistry’s building blocks of life
Viagra rendered in Minecraft. Author providedChildren should be playing more computer games in school. That idea might enrage you if...
Four video games to boost your mood
The video game Fortnite revels in silliness. Epic Games/IGDBIn her book How Games Move Us (2016), computer games researcher Katherine...
Broken records, ‘crunch’ and freemium that’s not free: 2018 was a huge year in gaming
Digital games are incredibly time-consuming and costly to produce. Shutterstock2018 has been a big year for video games – and...
Critics who say online gaming is ‘just a game’ completely miss the point
Now more than ever before, the stakes are getting higher in professional gaming. E-sports should be taken seriously as both...
Which apps are educational and why? It’s in the eye of the beholder
With over 80,000 educational apps in the iTunes store, it's hard to know which ones will benefit your kids. KW...
Civilization VI: Gathering Storm shows video games can make us think seriously about climate change
Firaxis / Civ VIA new expansion has added environmental challenges to Sid Meier’s Civilization VI, the latest in a popular...
The benefits of prison chess clubs
Shutterstock.Chess is a cheap and tactical game, and is claimed to develop the part of the brain responsible for planning,...
