THE WORLD HEALTH Organization is adding an unexpected disorder to its list of mental health conditions in 2018. Next year, people who play an excessive amount of video games could find themselves diagnosed with “gaming disorder.” WHO’s beta draft of its upcoming 11th update of International Classification of Diseasescharacterizes gaming disorder as “a pattern of persistent or […]
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Science Says Playing Video Games Can Make You Smarter
Take a second and list all of the stereotypes you can think of relating to video games. You probably came up with some like gamers are lazy and anti-social or gamers are bad at school. We’ve all heard the negative stigma associated with digital game play — true or untrue — but what about the positives? How can […]
Why the games media has a diversity problem – this website especially
A couple of weeks ago, somebody went through most of the major games websites and calculated what percentage of the bylines on each were from female writers. The results were, as you might predict, unbalanced; on average, 75 per cent of the articles were written by men. But Eurogamer came off astonishingly poorly in this […]
10 Steps to become an exceptional Animator
This hub on “10 Steps to become a Great Animator” is a one stop-solution, filled with rich tips that if followed religiously is sure to make you a winner. It is often a question to many when they watch animated movies, whether a Disney Classic or today’s Toystory or Avatar, “how does one get to work […]