Browsing: Serious

Let’s clear something up first. “Serious casual gamer” isn’t a contradiction. It describes most of us, honestly. You’re not grinding ranked matches for six hours a night, but you do care whether your phone stutters mid-session. You want smooth, responsive play without buying a device that looks like it escaped from a sci-fi film set.…

My first encounter with a “Grand Theft Auto” game was way back in 1999 with “GTA 2” at, of all places, my pastor’s house. The church patriarch would often host the youth group at his home, which meant taking turns on the first-gen PlayStation, but we were cackling a little too loudly as we carjacked…

Gaming can act as a tool for analysing complex issues and educating participants. This CORDIS Results Pack highlights 10 EU-funded projects developing serious games for researchers, students, patients and members of the public. These projects generate recommendations for EU policies and push forward research on videogames, helping to set the EU videogame sector on a…