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Strategies for Increasing Your Gaming Skills

Unleash your inner gaming prodigy and get ready for hours of increased enjoyment - it's time to boost those gaming skills! In this article, we'll provide key tips and strategies to hone your gameplay techniques, increase agility with game mechanics, and become a more rounded player – all while having fun. Whether you're an experienced gamer or just getting into the hobby, strap in— this will be a wild ride!

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Beyond Gamification

One tool or approach that has been suggested as a methodology for solving the problem of disengaged employees is gamification. Gamification means adding game elements to non-game situations such as creating a work application or process for an employee to earn points by performing specific activities correctly.

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New study suggests tabletop games reduce stress and anxiety

In this first-of-its-kind research project, Harrisburg University of Science and Technology partnered with The Bodhana Group to run an exploratory study on whether intentionally introduced cognitive behavioral therapy, delivered through the medium of Tabletop Role Playing Game groups, could positively affect social skills, reduce anxiety symptoms and behaviors, and enhance the mental well-being of participants.

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Gaming Provides Opportunities, Skills For Military Metaverse

Military training in the metaverse will require a unique set of cognitive skills that gaming can help develop in future warfighters, officials said Nov. 30. Several Defense Department services have initiated programs to create military training platforms similar to the metaverse, such as the Army's Synthetic Training Enviornment and the Department of the Air Force's Spaceverse.

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Are Prestige Video Games the Future?

Today, we are seeing more and more discussions about who is writing, starring, and directing a game on the AAA side, and many smaller developers seem to ignore design and UX conventions in favor of making "Art." I'm using art in air-quotes, as many reviewers of mainstream sites and Youtubers will often eat up these games as some kind of "Brave, new," expression of games, such as 12 Minutes from 2021.

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