Video game accessory articles
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Nearly Half of Video Game Players Say ‘Creation and Self-Expression’ Are Their Main Reasons for Gaming, New Study Finds
A new study has found that while stress relief is still self-reported as the top reason people are playing video games, 46% of gamers now list “creation, imagination and self-expression” as their main motivations for gaming. That stat is up 10% from last year, per entertainment website and online fan community Fandom‘s fourth annual “Inside […]
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Teens and Video Games Today
85% of U.S. teens say they play video games. They see both positive and negative sides, from making friends to harassment and sleep loss.
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Five of the best books about video games
Generations have now grown up with games, but they have long been linked to science fiction and are now the subject of histories, too. Here are five of the bestThere is a lingering misconception about video games that they exist entirely in their own sealed subculture, utterly untranslatable to books or movies. But this has never been the case: in the 80s and 90s, games (and by extension, virtual worlds) became a major theme of cyberpunk fiction, from the jacked-in hacker dystopia of William...