Video games have the distinct advantage that they are harder to be distracted from. You can't check your phone if you're trying to outrun a nightmare demon in Wandersong.
The trick to getting back into gaming is finding titles that offer a modern slant on your favourites of yore. For this, there is a world of indie games to be discovered – usually at an extremely reasonable price.
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There are so many farming simulators out there that it can be hard to know where to begin. Like The Sims, Stardew Valley is wonderful because it combines your dollhouse instinct with your general urge to get horny and cause drama. There's a farm to build, but there are also neighbours to woo. Be warned: like The Sims, you will find yourself spending 18 straight hours on this thing.
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Video games are keeping society united during the COVID-19 pandemic.
You name it, games have been blamed for it. Will the age of coronavirus change how we value video games, forever?
C onsidering the diligence demonstrated by the World Health Organization in having what they call "gaming disorder" classified as a behavioural addiction, the recent announcement of the Geneva-based organisation's #PlayApartTogether campaign – an effort to use the gargantuan influence of video games to bring people together within the era of COVID-19-enforced distancing – has looked a little bit… well, y'know… hypocritical. They're not alone in that. There's a lot of it about.
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I ’ve been thinking an awful lot about the 1989 Detroit Pistons over the past few days. Rick Mahorn, the starting power forward, can’t make a goddamn layup. Neither can Dennis Rodman. Isaiah Thomas is missing too many shots. Do I have anyone on my team who can stop Michael Jordan , who over the past four games is averaging 83.5 points per game against a squad once known as “The Bad Boys” because of its nasty defensive disposition?
Yeah, it would probably be sorry enough if I was consumed by the actual Detroit team that last played an actual NBA game at the outset of the George H.W. Bush administration. But no, I’m talking about the video game version of that championship squad. In NBA 2K20 , the popular virtual hoops game that for many fans has replaced real basketball during the coronavirus pandemic, you can play using one of many fine historic NBA squads.
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GameStop announced it had begun to reopen some American stores, starting in Georgia and South Carolina, and said it was preparing to potentially reopen stores across the US "in the coming weeks."
There is reason for the company to want to reopen stores as soon as possible. In Australia, where GameStop's stores remained open during March, the company saw a "sales increase of approximately 64%," GameStop's announcement says. Meanwhile, one-third of the company's US stores have closed since the start of the pandemic; the other two-thirds are operating on a limited basis with curbside pick-up of online orders.
New users turn to online video gaming during coronavirus, skyrocketing console sales and Twitch
People are playing online video games more due to COVID-19, which is boosting console sales and streaming hours are skyrocketing on platforms like Twitch, according to experts.
Lewis Ward, research director of gaming at International Data Corporation, an analytics research firm, said there was a clear correlation between people staying at home due to COVID-19 and an increase in online gaming. He added that sales for consoles and gaming units will continue throughout the year even if many people have already purchased something.
The silliest string-theory alternative yet draws inspiration from video games
Noted physicist, computer scientist, and mathematician Stephen Wolfram recently stunned the science community at-large after announcing he'd pretty much figured out how the universe works.
Wolfram's a household name in the science community. He's responsible for Wolfram Alpha , the search engine that AskJeeves wished it was, and the creation of a math-based programming language called Wolfram Language used to power the popular Mathematica system and, now, the creation of the Wolfram Physics Project. His contributions go back to his formative years where, by age 14, he'd written three books on the subject of physics.
Comrade Massie Is Creating Video Game Level Raves - PAPER
And while video game raves may be one of the more exciting alternatives to gain traction under quarantine, we still have to ask: can we take it yet another step further? Comrade Massie seems to think so.
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Odds are you've already seen one of his sets floating around your timeline, having already transformed the Nintendo 64 versions of the Legend of Zelda's Hyrule Castle and Sonic's Green Hill Zone into dancefloors. His latest recreation sees Massie reviving the iconic Dam level from one of the console's cult classic first-person shooters, Goldeneye 64.
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