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The Eko Hotel award is particularly interesting because of the word “Legacy.” AGE is only three years old. It cannot yet claim the kind of institutional history that Eko Hotel celebrated at its golden jubilee. But the recognition suggests that AGE is beginning to create a footprint large enough to be noticed outside the gaming…

The international character of a gaming community can appear in a small, familiar moment: teammates join a session with different accents and routines, then focus on the same immediate task. That contact does not prove a single worldwide trend, yet it explains why shared play can feel unusually open to people beyond a player’s own…

A Fortnite player in Alabama was arrested by the FBI after Epic Games reported threats he allegedly made over voice chat, including a remark about whether federal agents would come to his house. According to a federal affidavit, 29-year-old Edward Lee Frith, who played under the name WagesOfNinja, said “Let’s see if the FBI is…