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- There are too many video games https://bottomfeeder.substack.com/p/there-are-too-many-video-games 166 comments
- Wired: Why are so many young people addicted to video games? https://www.theguardian.com/games/article/2024/jul/07/video-games-why-are-so-many-young-people-addicted 12 comments
- When up means down: why do so many video game players invert their controls? https://www.theguardian.com/games/2020/feb/28/why-do-video-game-players-invert-the-controls 4 comments
- A popular video game randomizes race and gender and many white men are furious http://www.vox.com/2016/4/17/11442730/rust-experimental-race-gender-random 5 comments
- Does Your Video Game Have Too Many Words? (Yeah, Probably.) http://jeff-vogel.blogspot.com/2017/05/does-your-video-game-have-too-many.html 59 comments gamedev
- How many games of chess are possible? — Video by Numberphile. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km024eldY1A 11 comments chess
- Anyone else amazed at how many people stay on Windows 10 entirely because of video games? https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/79u2nd/anyone_else_amazed_at_how_many_people_stay_on/ 30 comments privacy
- Doom completed 20 years. Why does the video game still have so many fans? The answer lies in how it was built. http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2013/12/video-games?fsrc=scn/rd_ec/the_meaning_of_doom 72 comments technology
- Video game ‘loot boxes’ would be outlawed in many games under forthcoming federal bill https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/05/08/video-game-loot-boxes-would-be-outlawed-many-games-under-forthcoming-federal-bill/?noredirect=on 107 comments technology
- Video game ‘loot boxes’ would be outlawed in many games under forthcoming federal bill https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/05/08/video-game-loot-boxes-would-be-outlawed-many-games-under-forthcoming-federal-bill/?utm_term=.4306c5d23b40 255 comments politics
- How many of these 18 classic video game sounds can you identify? (quiz) http://www.pbs.org/kcts/videogamerevolution/arcade/name/index_flash.html 2 comments reddit.com
- Amazon in Talks to Carry Many NFL Games Exclusively on Prime Video https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-in-talks-to-carry-many-nfl-games-exclusively-on-prime-video-11614805362 86 comments nfl
- How many games could you take off Fed, again? My favorite Federer video. 00:39 for a truly nasty forehand https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdY6Exc1_gQ 43 comments tennis
- GM Zviad Izoria has been covering many of Alireza's great games in the European Team Championship with his great analysis videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip9v6ZnIChE 14 comments chess
- [Made with Vue] Guess the name of all the video games (web browser game) - How many points do you get? https://www.namethevideogame.com/ 4 comments vuejs
- (Meisel) Rajai Davis, on how many time he's watched video of his Game 7 HR: "I can't even count. And if I told you, I would be embarrassed." https://twitter.com/zackmeisel/status/869256152042921985 124 comments baseball
- New video game approvals dry up in China as internal memo shows that developers now have many red lines to avoid https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3150622/new-game-approvals-dry-china-internal-memo-shows-developers-now-have?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=share_widget&utm_campaign=3150622 4 comments worldnews
- New video game approvals dry up in China as internal memo shows that developers now have many red lines to avoid https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3150622/new-game-approvals-dry-china-internal-memo-shows-developers-now-have 18 comments worldnews
- [X-Post] How many of you guys would like me to make video tutorials of basic drills to help with your game? http://www.reddit.com/r/bootroom/comments/iebyi/how_many_of_you_guys_would_like_me_to_make_video/ 11 comments soccer
- Activists created a 12.5 million block digital library in 'Minecraft' to bypass censorship laws. In many authoritarian countries where news sources and books are censored, the video game "Minecraft" is not. https://www.businessinsider.com/minecraft-library-censored-newspaper-articles-online-books-rsf-reporters-borders-2020-3 275 comments worldnews
- Why amazing video games could be causing a big problem for America: "an additional reason many of these young men - who don't have college degrees -- are rejecting work is that they have a better alternative: living at home and enjoying video games." https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/09/23/why-amazing-video-games-could-be-causing-a-big-problem-for-america/ 9 comments economy
- Two-thirds of Americans, 227 million, play video games. For many games were an escape, stress relief in pandemic https://techxplore.com/news/2021-07-two-thirds-americans-million-video-games.html 52 comments technology
- [Video] Pep: “I don’t want to see excuses about tiredness, fixtures, schedules or how many games. That is nothing. When you have the dream to fight until the end, to retain the title, the power and the energy to give you that, it is higher than any excuses you can find.” https://twitter.com/sammy_goal/status/1100421279792934912?s=21 102 comments soccer
- The Pentagon Is Subsidizing Pro-War Movies & Blocking Anti-War Movies and much of the video game industry was subsidized by the military and military contractors, so many of the earliest games were consequently martial in thrust. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/03/16/957002/-report:-pentagon-subsidizing-pro-war-moviesblocking-anti-war-movies 6 comments politics
- The video game "Subnautica" depicts an alien planet with many exotic underwater ecosystems. One of these is a "lava zone" where molten lava stays in liquid form under the sea. Is this possible? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/7vgwdg/the_video_game_subnautica_depicts_an_alien_planet/ 695 comments askscience
- Sen. Feinstein: Congress may ‘have to proceed’ with violent video game regulation -- '... main sponsor on the U.S. legislation that banned many assault weapons in the 1990s is now talking about regulating violent video games in the future.' http://venturebeat.com/2013/04/04/senator-feinstein-congress-may-have-to-proceed-with-violent-video-game-regulation/ 45 comments politics
- I know this might not be the priority for many new gamedevs, but please take notes and spend this extra effort when designing a bathroom / washroom in a video game. At least have a functional mirror, or better flushable toilet or two. https://youtu.be/fAD-bBKA6Ag 56 comments gamedev
- Virtual Revenge in Bangladesh - A bloodthirsty video game set during the war of independence, sponsored by the government is proving popular with young Bangladeshis. The aim is to gun down as many Pakistani soldiers as possible. https://www.1843magazine.com/dispatches/the-daily/virtual-revenge-is-sweet-in-bangladesh 229 comments pakistan
- Many American public libraries carry video games as an attempt to lure teenagers into a library. The result is more teenagers coming to the library and books are being checked out at a rate that exceeds what it was before the gamers arrived http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/15/opinion/navarrette-library-video-games/ 438 comments books
- Rise of the New Groupthink : "Backbone Entertainment, a video game development company in Emeryville, Calif., initially used an open-plan office, but found that its game developers, many of whom were introverts, were unhappy" http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/opinion/sunday/the-rise-of-the-new-groupthink.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&ref=general&src=me 24 comments gamedev
- Indiana Jones and The Great Circle Update 1 - Full Path Tracing + Improved performance on larger game levels if using an 8GB VRAM video-card + Many other fixes https://bethesda.net/en/article/ZKn6jyPTe2ElFSJ0yZ2WA/indiana-jones-and-the-great-circle-tm-update-1 191 comments nvidia
- I've recently begun to look into the development of horse themed video games and why so many games in the genre are just not good. This interview was an interesting insight into what went wrong in mid mid 00s contract work. https://www.themanequest.com/blog/2019/1/2/working-on-a-horse-game-nobody-cared-about-was-soul-crushing-the-unenthusiastic-making-of-riding-star-2 35 comments gamedev
- Syria's Disneyland for Jihadists "Foreign Islamists coming into Syria have been gathering in the relatively quiet north. But many of them are finding transit towns -- with good food, video games and smoking -- preferable to the front. When they do end up fighting, it's often with each other" http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/foreign-jihadists-in-syria-favor-liberal-transit-towns-over-front-a-910092.html#ref=rss 37 comments worldnews
- While the iPad sports a lot of features, one of them isn’t Flash. The Adobe plug-in is nowhere to be found on Apple’s device, meaning that many online games and video sites (such as Hulu) aren’t usable on Apple’s tablet device. http://mashable.com/2010/01/28/flash-ipad/ 3 comments reddit.com
- Endrick: "From video games I know the two stadiums (Wembley and the Santiago Bernabéu). It will be incredible to see how majestic it is , how big it is, how many people it can fit... So knowing that I am going to play in these two stadiums is going to be wonderful." https://www.marca.com/futbol/real-madrid/2024/03/19/65f9631922601d7f0c8b4580.html 32 comments soccer
- Cheesiest disallowed goal/offside call of the year. Straddling the line has been in our game forever. How many goals in NHL history would have been disallowed with this video review, 10,000? Please let’s get rid of this https://twitter.com/realkyper/status/973008086813126657 63 comments hockey
- A great list of the Japanese wrestlers that have appeared in the Yakuza video game franchise. I’ve been slowly starting to get into the NJPW scene over the past few months and it’s been blowing my mind how many legends I encountered through this series years ago. https://yakuza-archive.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Professional_wrestlers 6 comments squaredcircle
- [Pat Nevin] I’ve just received video of vile sectarian comments aimed at the fabulous John McGinn at Stamford Bridge. Heading there now for tomorrow’s game and will talk to the club. You get vile abuse from many fans of many clubs, but this is NO excuse! I hope and expect investigations! https://twitter.com/patnevin/status/1437425949822291973?s=2 55 comments soccer
- [Koshan] Marchand, on chirping with the Leafs: "I have not had a whole lot of chatter with Bunting. There's not really many guys who like to get into it. Mitch is out there talking about video games and his dog and those terrible new skates that he has got out." https://twitter.com/koshtorontosun/status/1620835997411061761?s=19&t=G1raEhJTx6wZGavcoo53cw 51 comments hockey
- Real Madrid Today, a group of fellow Redditors, have made a video, our first of many we hope, analyzing Essien's LB game against Dortmund play by play. Let us know what you think! http://realmadridtoday.com/essien-dortmund 7 comments soccer