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"It is hoped that a new relationship between humans and machines will be made a reality"
Read More »Square Enix teams up with Omron to develop ‘AI that helps motivate humans’
New research shows a 19% drop in physical sales for UK entertainment sector
Amazon accounts for 25% of all spend in each category
Read More »Researchers believe they’ve identified treatment for video game addiction
CBT seeks "enable [addicts to control] their behaviour"
Read More »VR game Sea Hero Quest is helping neuroscientists learn out more about dementia
"The data set that Sea Hero Quest generates is truly unprecedented"
Read More »This livestream will showcase what AI is learning from playing StarCraft II
DeepMind says games "are core" to its research programme
Read More »New UK report says there is ‘no consistent evidence’ that too much screen time is harmful to child health
Research into "newer uses of digital media, such as social media" is needed, though
Read More »Microsoft prototypes Xbox controllers for mobile devices
"Our vision is a mobile gaming controller which can be used standalone and across a variety of devices"
Read More »Study finds number of sexualised female characters has fallen ‘significantly’ in the last decade
Look at portrayal of women in games over the last 31 years reveals spike in sexualised protagonists in the 1990s following release of Tomb Raider
Read More »OPINION: Why is games TV advertising down year-on-year?
Generation Media account executive Joe Phelan looks at the decline in games marketing so far this year and finds out in which sectors TV ads are concentrated. Following E3, many will be looking forward to the end of the year, but we have decided to look back on 2016 so …
Read More »Co-operative multiplayer more appealing than competitive modes, research finds
Quantic Foundry survey of over 1,000 players also discovers that co-op is equally popular between genders, while men prefer to face off against each other
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