Author: Betty
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Parental Perception of Minecraft Play: Negative and Positive Aspects
Digital gaming is a big topic and takes a big part in many lives of today’s children. This following brief summary about the Mavoa/Carter/Gibbs (2017: 171-181) article, takes a closer look at parental perceptions of the popular video game Minecraft.
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Catan: Still One Of The Play-Worthiest Classic Board Games Out There?
It is still one of the hottest selling board games nowadays and it’s been played during family get-togethers and Silicon Valley networking events. Of course, I am talking about ‘The settlers of Catan’ or since it’s been rebranded: Catan.
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Scotland Yard: Find Mr. X Before It Is Too Late!
Tactics, #strategy and bluffing: The #boardgame #ScotlandYard is an exciting game, in which a team of detectives tries to hunt down the criminal Mr. X.
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Tetris “Challenges” Emergency Workers Worldwide
From Switzerland, to Russia and America: Emergency departments all around the world are participating in the #TetrisChallenge, laying down their tools and themselves in a #geometric and orderly way.
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The Infinite Adventure-World of Terraria
Building, fighting, exploring, crafting, digging… The action-adventure game Terraria is a popular, widely known sandbox game where freedom and rewarding play a big role.
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Arma III – There Is No Limit
From guerrilla warfare and roleplay missions to zombie apocalypse and jungle survival… Arma3 is a military #tacticalshooter -, open-world- and realism-based video game, which got it all covered! This #sandboxgame, as it is often called, can really be any game you want it to be. And although this PC-game has been around since 2013, it…
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Wolfenstein “The New Order”: Music as Inter-World Identity and Powerful Weapon
What if #Germany had won the second world war? The video game #Wolfenstein : The New Order has been trying to give an answer to this seemingly hypothetical scenario (Domíniguez 2017:71f). By combining #fantasy, real-world history, and the players historical knowledge, and through the element of music, the game is reinterpreting history and the present.