I’ll be honest, I’ve been quite bored with gaming recently. COVID has put a halt to a lot of titles I was looking forward to playing (Arkham Knights, Back 4 Blood, Aliens: Fireteam Elite and Forza 5 to name a few), Call of Duty Warzone has run its course, and I can’t for the life […]
Read More How Dirt 5 Can Clean Itself Off And Win the Racing Game WarI have strong sentiments towards Pro Evolution Soccer, despite giving the last five years of incarnations a hard pass. Yes, it’s been gulfed by FIFA in recent times, and I don’t know a single other person that plays it, but it was THE football video game franchise when I was about 10 years old – […]
Read More Can PES finally best FIFA?A recent study found that people over 65 are far more likely to share intentionally false or misleading information on Facebook than all younger age groups – a somewhat counter-intuitive finding if you’re like me and your parents spent your pre-teens reminding you – daily – of the ‘dangers of strangers’.
Read More Old People,Please Stop Sharing Fake News on Social Media.A month or so ago in Vancouver, Observer journalist and Pulitzer Prize nominee, Carole Cadwalladr, addressed a considerable Ted Talk crowd and sermonised to the ‘gods of silicon valley’ – the likes of Facebook and Twitter – on their responsibility to further protect their platforms from becoming tools to spread misinformation. Since breaking the Cambridge […]
Read More How do we Stop Fake News and Social Media Manipulation?The video game industry is truly unrecognisable from its formative years – a once ugly duckling that’s transformed into a beautiful, albeit extremely greedy swan. In the past gaming was a hobby (wrongly) associated with society’s rejects and lonely men in their parent’s basements but it’s exploded with acceptance to be a huge part of […]
Read More Why you should look at the Video Games Industry for Social Media Innovation
Matt Adkin 