Telling stories: How a game designer turned Jesuit ended up writing about space religion
BOB SMIETANA, of Religion News Service, reports on how, in writing one of ‘Starfield’s’ religions, Shane Liesegang drew on his studies as a Jesuit priest in training…
Virtual reality games offer visceral taste of a climate-changed future
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation It’s 2040 in Miami, and a powerful hurricane has swamped the low-lying city. You stand alone under a dark, foreboding sky, chest-high waves sloshing around you, an abandoned car floating nearby one of the few objects visible in the expanse of water. A ball-shaped robot then hovers into view, urging you […]
On the Screen: ‘Uncharted’ falls flat as it tries to jump from game to the big screen
MARCUS CHEONG watches Playstation Production’s first effort to take a game to the big screen…
“Oh, that’s an idea…”: US parents respond to China screen time ban
Reuters Raleigh Smith Duttweiler was folding laundry in her Ohio home, her three children playing the video game Minecraft upstairs, when she heard an NPR story about new rules in China that forbid teenagers and children under age 18 from playing video games for more than three hours a week. “Oh, that’s an idea,” Duttweiler, […]
Video games seen becoming a new frontier in digital rights
New York City, USThomson Reuters Foundation Critical digital rights battles over privacy, free speech and anonymity are increasingly being fought in video games, a growing market that is becoming a “new political arena,” experts and insiders said last week. With the industry set to more than double annual revenues to $US300 billion by 2025, questions […]
VIRTUAL GOLDMINE: IN-GAME GOODS FUEL DEBATE OVER DIGITAL OWNERSHIP
SONIA ELKS, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, looks at the emerging area of digital property rights…
SIGHT-SEEING: THE SPIRITUAL LEGACY OF ‘DOOM’
KAITLYN CURTICE, in an article first published on Religion News Service, reflects on what she learned while playing the shooting game Doom…