Warning: Hours of e-sports can lead to gamer injuries
Gamers often e-sports play for hours, and that can lead to injury. Here’s an explanation.
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Coding benefits: Despite online risks, experts say kids should learn to code
At theCoderSchool, before kids launch into learning how to build games on Roblox or with any number of other platforms or languages, including Python, Java, Swift and C++, they get a lesson on internet safety as part of its Tech Talk curriculum.
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WHO to recognize gaming disorder as mental health condition in 2018
In 2018, playing video games obsessively might lead to a diagnosis of a mental health disorder.
Read MoreCo-founder of Cliff Bleszinki’s Boss Key returns to Epic Games for ‘exciting secret project’
Arjan Brussee, who helped Epic Games legend Cliff Bleszinski to launch a new company in 2014, is returning to Epic.
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Epic Games defends lawsuit against 14-year-old for cheating
Epic Games’ campaign of lawsuits targeting “cheaters” who it says are impacting the “fun, fair and competitive” environment of its Fortnite game includes a 14-year-old New Jersey boy.
Read MoreA New UNC Fellowship Helps Push This MBA Student’s STEM Gaming Idea Forward
UNC Kenan-Flagler student Chijioge Nwogu got a summer opportunity unlike that of his fellow MBA students. He’s spent the last two months developing a startup concept that will use sports-themed PC or mobile games to help children learn STEM skills. A sports and technology enthusiast with years of experience in the industry, Nwogu’s “basketball smartgames” are aimed to get kids excited about topics like quantum computing, machine learning, augmented reality and virtual reality. The concept of using sports as the focus of educational games, Nwogu says, is to hold the attention of children while teaching them data science. If...
Read MoreThrough Sensors Embedded in Shoes, NC Tech Madness Champion Aims to Pioneer Locomotion for VR Gamers
When a two-time startup founder purchased his first virtual reality headset in 2015, he observed something about the device that both intrigued and annoyed him. Though the headset provided the overall immersive VR gaming experience he’d expected, Jeff Guard was disappointed at how difficult it was to move his...
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Durham game development company’s game featured on Apple TV
Durham based game development studio Third Track is announced the release of its local cooperative multiplayer dungeon adventure, Couch Heroes vs The Dungeon for the App Store on Apple’s new Apple TV and tvOS last week. The game features between one and four players actively cooperating and same-screen multiplayer...
Read MoreWhy the East Coast Game Conference isn't JUST for Gamers
Gaming is getting more serious these days, and the organizers of the sixth annual East Coast Game Conference have planned next week’s two days of workshops, speakers, expos and events to prove it. Serious gaming, or gaming used for training, strategy, education, government, defense, health and more, is woven throughout conference tracks that range from production, narrative and art to programming, design and gaming technologies. Organizers Troy Knight of the Raleigh creative agency BLDG 25 and Walter Rotenberry of Wake Tech’s computer science department hope this year’s event is appealing to corporations interested in training employees or customers using...
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