But the days of the stereotypical “grownup guy playing video games in his mom’s basement” are long over. Women and men of all ages are turning to games of all kinds — some with recognizable names like Fortnite, Call of Duty, and Madden — to deceptively simply and perhaps more niche games, like JackBox, or Among Us!
This newfound explosion of video gaming, as well as its positive social attributes especially during a pandemic, doesn’t just come from the big money and advertisements, or the marriage of gaming and academia ; it comes from the core of gaming.
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'I Forget About the World:' Afghan Youth Find Escape in a Video Game - The New York Times
KABUL, Afghanistan — Rifle fire, hurried footsteps and distant explosions. The rat-a-tat of a firefight. Cars mangled from grenades. The young man was transfixed.
"On Friday I play from early morning to around 4 p.m.," said Mr. Sharifi, 20, with a sly grin, as if he knew he was detailing the outline of an addiction to a passer-by. His left hand is tattooed with a skull in a jester's hat, a grim image offset by his lanky and not-quite-old-enough demeanor. "Almost every night, it's 8 p.m. to 3 a.m."
Most expensive video game ever: Rare copy of 'Super Mario 3' sold at auction | Fox
A sealed copy of Nintendo's "Super Mario Bros. 3" has become the most expensive video game ever sold, going for a whopping $156,000 at auction on Friday.
The sale, handled by Dallas-based Heritage Auctions, broke the previous record of the original "Super Mario Bros.," which sold for $114,000 earlier this year.
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"We couldn't be more pleased about breaking the world record for the second time in the same year," said Valarie McLeckie, Heritage Auctions' Director of Video Games, in a statement . "That said, it's no surprise that another Mario game, which so many of us grew up with, would set the new bar."
Once more with feelings: How Yakuza: Like a Dragon reinvents middle-aged men in video games |
Yakuza: Like a Dragon is an open-world, role-playing adventure, part of a long-running, highly acclaimed series from Sega and legendary designer Toshihiro Nagoshi. The games have always followed gangsters and criminals in labyrinthine adventures through city backstreets, with multiple side-quests, from car races to karaoke sessions.
Yakuza: Like a Dragon is available on PC, PS4 and Xbox One (£45), and on PS5 and Xbox Series S/X (£70)
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Video games and artificial intelligence drive BMW’s vision | Driving
Last year, the boffins in Munich created an event called #NEXTGen, a soirée which highlighted BMW’s technological developments and how they plan to shape the future face of transportation. Festivities in 2020 have understandably been moved online but continue to showcase new tech and vehicles, while also looking at some very specific examples of what next-gen mobility will look like.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer the stuff of Star Trek androids or rebelling robots being wrangled by Will Smith. BMW uses AI in more than 400 applications and in every relevant area of the company.
Video games can improve mental health.
'Fortnite' Season 4 Is Gearing Up To End With The Biggest Video Game Boss Battle In History
Fortnite has been relatively quiet these days, only making headlines with which new Marvel skin has hit the store or new developments in its court case versus Apple, which seems to be going a bit better these days when it was previously, with Apple announcing App Store cut concessions to smaller devs.
But Fortnite is quietly gearing up for what may be its biggest event ever, and from what I can tell, what should be the biggest video game boss battle in the history of the medium.
Code Ninjas providing kids a path in Westminster to video game enlightenment - Carroll County
Josh Schmidt and his wife Vanessa already held the distinction of being the first to take the Code Ninjas franchise into the small-market world when they opened in Hanover, Pennsylvania in 2019. Now, the game-based coding education for kids model is making its presence felt in Westminster , where the Schmidts are hoping a studio version of their business takes off.
The desire for smaller space that can still accommodate children ages 7-14 gave Schmidt the idea, he said, to convince Code Ninjas brass to branch into smaller markets, such as the new location at 909 Baltimore Blvd. The coronavirus pandemic won't get in the way of Schmidt and his "Code Senseis" creating projects for their young ninjas to complete, with a goal of building video games from scratch.
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