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Games: the huge cultural catalyst we’re all downplaying

By Adam Tinworth

Even as talk of “gamification” has faded, games have become a defining force in culture. Why are we still treating them as child's play?
Deborah Papiernik: how Ubisoft’s digital worlds grew beyond gaming

By Adam Tinworth

For companies like Ubisoft, the Metaverse has existed for 20 years. Deborah Papernik explains how digital worlds are more than just play in our latest episode of the NEXT show.
TL Taylor: live-streaming is building a new creative culture

By Adam Tinworth

Why do people watch others play games? Why do people make their private play public? TL Taylor's answers to those questions hint at a profound cultural shift.
eSports is huge – and getting bigger. We should be taking it much more seriously.

By Adam Tinworth

Games are for kids, right? Wrong - esports is a fast-growing, multi-billion industry, with a huge cultural impact. And we're not taking it seriously enough - yet.
An Immersive Experience that doesn’t suck

By Martin Recke

Let's shift perspective to the user’s point of view and talk about immersive experience instead of vr, ar, or mixed reality.
Twitch game streaming hits full HD resolution – how far behind is 4k?

By Adam Tinworth

In the battle for our attention, streaming eSports is catching up on its more physical cousin.
Pokémon Go pushes augmented reality into the mainstream

By Adam Tinworth

The incredible success of Pokémon Go in the last week has put a technology often seen as VR's poor cousin right into the public eye.
Throwback Thursday: 1982’s ZX Spectrum reborn as the Vega+

By Adam Tinworth

A crowd-funding effort to recreate a classic computer as a handheld console has hit its funding target in days.
[Liveblog] Adrian Hon gets you fit – with a zombie apocalypse

By Adam Tinworth

Fitness apps with "gamification" aren't fun. Games which have health benefits. Adrian Hon is using a Zombie Apocalypse to get you fit.
[Liveblog] eSports is mainstream entertainment – says Michael Bister

By Adam Tinworth

There's a sport - actually, many sports - that attract millions of viewers online and which you have probably never watch: eSports are here to stay.
Forget shiny toys, Apple just built the future in software

By Adam Tinworth

Apple, the great hardware company, gave a software-only keynote yesterday. And developers and consumers both have good reasons to be interested.