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By ignoring gaming, mainstream journalism is eroding trust with younger people

Are we making a terrible mistake by ignoring games in mainstream journalism?

Publishers & Pokémon Go: there's nothing for the likes of you here

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Publishers & Pokémon Go: there's nothing for the likes of you here

Publishers won’t – and can’t – learn anything from Pokémon Go says Chris Sutcliffe: Even thoughtful, forward-thinking pieces about lessons from Pokémon Go like this one from Poynter’s Melody

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Fighting trolling with academic rigour

Trolling – hostile, provocative anti-social behaviour – is one of the biggest challenges to any large-scale online community – and that includes comment sections on mainstream publications. The problem is far, far bigger

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Making good life choices

This morning I am mainly questioning my life choices. I just received this through the post: What’s inside? Why, a statue to celebrate the fact I have been an unbroken subscriber to World of Warcraft for a decade: He’s staying on my

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Journalism in 2014

Paul Bradshaw has provided a handy round-up of what happened in the worlds of digital journalism in 2014. Of note: YouTube. Media organisations are still overlooking YouTubers in the same way as they overlooked Vice, Buzzfeed et al. But there are serious non-mainstream publishers

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LeWeb: Adam Gazzaley will fix your brain with neurogames

What’s the state of the art of improving cognition? Take a 60 year old with attention impairment. Well, he’s unlikely to get functional brain imaging. So, he’ll be diagnosed and given a drug. Right now we do not have a precisely

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Obligatory #gamergate post

Seriously abbreviated version of the #gamergate mess: A bunch of predominantly male gamers are using “concerns about the ethics of games journalism” as a shield for a series of deeply misogynistic attacks on prominent women developers, critics and even celebrities. Does game journalism have

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LeWeb: Angry Birds, Happy Business

That bizarre image of our host dressed up as the most basic of the Angry Birds had a purpose: it was setting the scene for the arrival of Mikael Hed, CEO, Rovio, the people who are stealing away our lives in avian/porcine conflict…

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LeWeb: Angry Birds Loïc

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LeWeb: The Rise of the Social Game

Sebastien de Halleux, Co-Founder, Playfish & VP, Business Development & Strategic Partnerships, EA Interactive is up now, kicking of the social gaming strand. Veronica Belmont kicked off by asking why so many existing social games were derivative of concept and brand. de Halleux didn’

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Two New Blogs from Former Student Hacks

Bit frantic at the moment – been off for a week, and returned to a pile of work. But today I’ve discovered to my delight that two old friends from my days on [Felix](http://www.felixonline.co.uk/), Imperial College’s student rag,

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Me, on a Podcast #2

Talking of [World of Warcraft](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_of_Warcraft "World of Warcraft"), as the [last pos](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2008/11/election_day_how_will_the_worl.html)t was, some people known that I live a secret

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The Flight Game

Stuck at your desk while all your colleagues are on their holidays? Then waste time with the Take Off Challenge, [No longer online – they this page full of helicoper games instead] from my colleagues at Flight Global: [![The Flight Game](https://i0.wp.com/

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Le Web 3 Lost Posts 2: The Robot Musician

A moment of wonderful weirdness on stage at Le Web 3: a robot playing Guitar Hero live on stage: The Robot Musician from Adam Tinworth on Vimeo.

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Le Web 3 '07: Playin' Games

The presentation that most people have mentioned to me as changing the way they think about something was Joi Ito’s talk on gaming. Me? I loved it, but then the talk was about World of Warcraft, and I’m a player. (“Hi, my