Japan dominated the video games conversation on Twitter in 2019, boasting the most active gaming community on the app and sustaining the hype around its most talked-about game: a 4-year-old mobile game called Fate/Grand Order.
Twitter announced today that more than a billion tweets about gaming were posted during 2019, 20 percent more than 2018, with Japan's conversations around Fate/Grand Order leading the way. This is the second year in a row that Fate/Grand Order topped Twitter's list .
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From Worms to Tomb Raider: classic UK video games celebrated in new stamps | Games | The Guardian
A new set of postage stamps will celebrate the history of the British video game industry, from groundbreaking space sim Elite to blockbusting action adventure Tomb Raider.
The 12 games were selected with the help of games industry trade body UKIE as well as veteran video game journalist Julian Rignall, who worked on seminal gaming magazines Zzap!64 and Mean Machines, and Sam Dyer, creative director at Bitmap Books, which specialises in retro video game publications.
Video games—even those without explicit educational goals—can offer insights into ecology
When a designer decides to turn his billion-dollar video game into an exercise in sustainable downsizing in Richard Power's novel The Overstory , another character asks. "How are limits and shortages and permadeath going to be fun?" People playing video games want to level up and accumulate, to monetize social status and trade it. Such hypercapitalist tendencies do not exactly encourage behaviors that will lead to the mitigation of climate change and other environmental crises.
An Abrams Artists Agent Shares What You Should Know About Video Game Auditions
For voiceover agents, the casting process for almost all voiceover projects is a unique one as many of the top-tier agencies including Abrams Artists Agency have full-time, in-house audio production facilities at their offices. So in addition to the typical agenting duties, I contribute a lot of my time to being in the booth directing, guiding, and coaching our clients before their audition tapes are packaged and submitted to casting directors .
All the different voiceover areas we work in have their own nuances and subtleties, and video games are no exception. More often than not, upcoming games use codenames for their titles and the names of characters, as well as have super generic dialogue. If we’re fortunate to have enough context about the character, we may be able to make an educated guess as to what it is and may be able to use those context clues to help our clients make more appropriate choices for the
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Game Designer Eric Zimmerman on the Future of Video Games | OneZero
Eric Zimmerman: I see playing as a fundamentally social, creative, and cultural activity. For me, any game and play are like image-making, story-telling, or playing music. It's a fundamental human activity, something that's almost biological and definitely cultural. It's about meaning and signification, about personal expression, and it's culturally and historically specific.
Interacting with systems is part of being literate in an industrialized country, which allows us to create meaning.
PlayStation 4 Is Now the Second Best Selling Home Console Ever | Fortune
Netflix show 'The Witcher' is blowing up. Here's a guide to the games and books.
With a second season already on the calendar, Netflix's "The Witcher" rocketed to the top of everyone's on-demand entertainment, even reportedly becoming the most in-demand TV show in the world, according to Parrot Analytics . If you haven't seen the show yet, take a gander at Post reporter Sonia Rao's breakdown of what to expect .
Author Andrzej Sapkowski became the pride of Poland after publishing a series of stories about Geralt of Rivia, the titular Witcher. The nation is so proud of Sapkowski's works (and the subsequent blockbuster games that followed), Poland's prime minister offered the second game as an official state gift during his 2011 visit with President Obama .
Predators have unprecedented access to kids through online video games, FBI says
ATLANTA — Your kids may try to sneak in a quick video game before heading to school in the morning, but you need to know predators are targeting children and it has happened here in north Georgia.
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Here's how it works: A child accepts the invite to play, the conversations start out light, then a predator will make their move asking for explicit photos.
They should also know how to block people. The most important part: Make sure kids know they can come to you.
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