Tag: Gaming
PlatinumGames won’t implement NFTs, citing ‘no positive impact on creators’
Nonfungible tokens and blockchain technology have become a raging topic of interest across the...
Read MoreWe Watch the Mysteries of Laura’s ‘Online Gaming’ Episode so You Don’t Have To
Oh gods why did we do that? So, we heard that the NBC comedy The Mysteries of Laura, a weird sort of comedy-slash-cop-show about a detective who is also a mother, would be running an episode that featured a killer who plays...
Read MoreWhy We Can’t Use the ‘Quinnspiracy’ to Talk About Gaming Journalism
This month has been a very bad month for gaming culture. Embarrassing stints continue to rock the foundation of the gaming community and the gaming journalism industry. The result has been a tide of the internet hate machine...
Read MoreVideo Gamers Get Better – In Their Dreams
Dreaming and learning may be part of the same process, a new study from the Harvard Medical School suggests. In the study, volunteers played the rightly hallowed FPS, DOOM, and then answered questions about their dreams. Often,...
Read MoreCrash To Desktop – 8/18/2009
Welcome to Crash To Desktop, the daily series where I explore my feminine side. Thank you for visiting. While you’re here, best sign up to our Twitter feed. Otherwise, something unfortunate might happen. In my days,...
Read MoreVideo Game Sales Drop, Used Games See a Rise
With the jobless rate merrily leaving the Land of Hard Times for the Valley of Revolution, even gamers have seen an effect. The slumping economy had to drag down the gaming industry eventually, and now hard data is showing the...
Read MoreQuebec Forbids English-Only Video Games in Favour of French Language
Which only makes sense, because game developers are clamoring to translate their virtual worlds to French. The Toronto Star reports that a recent law passed in Quebec forbids the sale of English-only games if a French...
Read MoreAction Gaming Improves Eyesight, Destroys Faith in Humanity
Recent studies from the University of Rochester and Tel Aviv University have shown that playing action games like Unreal Tournament and Call of Duty improves the eyesight of players. The upgrades come in the form of something...
Read MoreChallenge Draws Gamers, Not Gore
A study drawn out of the University of Rochester and Immersyve Inc., shows that gamers enjoy, not the gore of violence of games, but, well, the game part. The fun factor in games, especially those that layer on the carnage,...
Read More1UP.com Acquired, Gutted by UGO Entertainment
Sure, it’s splashed all across the remaining game sites out there, but we at Vox would be remiss in our duties as the starving vultures of game journalism if we didn’t spend a moment to pick the bones of our own...
Read MoreUsed Games Drop in Price
While video games as a whole are doing well, the prices of used games at the retail level dropped by a considerable amount, although you wouldn’t know it browsing the local Gamestop. In part, this can be be pinned directly...
Read MoreNecessary Complexity in Virtual Gaming and Games Within Games
The good folks over at Massively.com are running a great article about necessary complexity in games, using the failure of Google’s Lively MMO as an example. Short order, games that are too complex might offer players a...
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