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Backrooms, Liminal Spaces, And The Subliminal Menace Of Loneliness in Indie Horror Games

This is about the horror of liminal spaces, and the intrinsic surrealism of our digital world That beautiful awful loneliness of existing in the electric void of shared virtual fantasies that video games are. Despite the incredible depth of detail AAA games today have, I think the older lack of detail, the hidden things, what remains unsaid is why horror in games remains such a unique experience.

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BU games encourage learning through sensation in children with physical disabilities

A series of games to help children and young people with physical disabilities learn about the physical world is being piloted in a Dorset school. The games have been created by Bournemouth University and Livability Victoria School in Poole to help children learn about the physical world through gameplay and electronic artificial sensation devices.

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Will our future lives be like a video game?

A few years ago, the software company Owlchemy Labs released a computer game called Job Simulator. As the digital scaffold of the metaverse continues to shoot up all around us, and asvirtual reality continues to merge with, and augment, our physical surroundings, computer games will become an increasingly present, increasingly seamless feature of our everyday lives.

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