Tag: gaming

• How Epic Games views the metaverse and the State of Unreal | Tim Sweeney

  April 9, 2023

  Connect with top gaming leaders in Los Angeles at GamesBeat Summit 2023 this May 22-23. Register here. At its State of Unreal event last week, Epic Games showed off not… more ›

• As video games grow, they are eating the media

  March 26, 2023

  Warner Bros released a new Harry Potter title last month and took $850m in two weeks. That made it the second-most-successful Potter launch in the film studio’s history. But “Hogwarts… more ›

• The Authorial Leverage Framework

  October 2, 2022

  Hey, I’m Jacob! I’m a technical narrative designer. I co-created Ice-Bound, an award-winning indie narrative game, and have developed dynamic narrative systems for a variety of industry studios over the… more ›

• iLRN 2022 Keynote Speaker Jesse Schell

  October 2, 2022

  The 8th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN 2022) https://ift.tt/agvDqb7 more ›

• A Crypto Game Promised to Lift Filipinos Out of Poverty. Here’s What Happened Instead

  July 31, 2022

  Samerson Orias was working as a line cook last year in the rural Philippines when his friend told him he could make way more money playing a new video game.… more ›

• Is the metaverse going to suck? A conversation with Matthew Ball

  July 20, 2022

  If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Let’s talk about the metaverse. https://www.theverge.com/23269170/what-is-the-metaverse-matthew-ball-interview-decoder-podcast more ›

• Yanis Varoufakis on Crypto & the Left, and Techno-Feudalism

  February 13, 2022

  “Rare is the person who could expertly comment – in a single interview! – on the rise of NFTs and their origins in the virtual worlds of gaming, the logic… more ›

• Raph Koster’s real talk about a real metaverse

  February 6, 2022

  Did you miss a session from the Future of Work Summit? Head over to our Future of Work Summit on-demand library to stream. Not many people can say “been there,… more ›

• Academics want to preserve video games. The game industry is fighting them in court.

  January 18, 2022

  Research libraries preserve classic texts, films and recordings, but when it comes to video games, it gets complicated. https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2022/01/12/video-game-preservation-emulation/ more ›

• China gaming crackdown: freeze on new video game licences extends into 2022 as 14,000 gaming-related firms shut down

  January 12, 2022

  A previous version of this story said 140,000 gaming-related firms shut down from July to December 2021 and 180,000 in 2020. The actual numbers were 14,000 and 18,000, respectively. https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3161717/china-gaming-crackdown-freeze-new-video-game-licences-extends-2022 more ›