Loot-Ninja writes "Learning in games extends from the blatant learning software out there to puzzle games and to shooters, all seeping knowledge into your brain whether you like it or not. There is the obvious Brain Training and Professor Layton to the more obvious History Channel games. For me, gaming is not limited to lounging and minimal brain activity, it's an activity to be mentally engaged and to get excited about. I like learning; I watch the History Channel and National Geographic (not just for the naked native boobies) so deal with it. If you play a game and you manage to walk away without taking anything of value from it, then you have wasted your time. I just ask everyone to remember the most important lesson of all, one brought to us by Left 4 Dead. In case of a zombie apocalypse, AIM FOR THE HEAD. You know one day you will need that little gem of knowledge."
Skewed and Reviewed have written an Opinion Piece covering issues in the gaming industry, how current issues were issues years ago, and what can be done to help restore consumer trust.
Nothing. It's up to the gamers to stop consuming content from companies that they don't agree with.
How do you know if you agree with it or not unless you play it? Which without conventions forces gamers to rely on trailers. Perhaps Demos should be made more frequently. But companies need to do better as well.
But is that not what they have now? Tons of gameplay or are you talking about watching actual gamers play it versus the trailers and streams? The big issue is that some companies pay streamers and influencers and they create content but for me; that is hardly a fair, unbiased, and factual look at a game.
They usually are attached to the money sadly. It would be nice to have gamers in charge but you have so much money invested that business people are needed. Hence the issue; you need people who know business but are also gamers who know have an eye to the community. It sounds simple in theory that if you give gamers quality games that they want to play; money will be made. But that is not always so.
Marie Dealessandri speaks to Borislav Slavov and Gustavo Santaolalla about “the new golden age of games music”.
A famous actor from Starship Troopers has showered praise on Helldivers 2 and said he is open to the idea of playing General Brasch.
Thinking about, completely missed Oregon Trail, but then again all I learned is dysentery will kill. Plenty of other learning from games, star control taught me inertia... damn you physics.