Life in a dystopian future – Va-11-Hall-A – Cyberpunk Bartender Action

Va-11-Hall-A – Cyberpunk Bartender Action, Valhalla for short, is a bartending visual novel set in a fictional city called Glitch (city). Heavy with conversation, laden with interesting characters with bizarre stories, Valhalla is a lighthearted cyberpunk game where the player takes on the role of a bartender in a bar called Valhalla.

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AutoGym – How to Maintain Situational Awareness During Autonomous Driving?

Driving a car is arguably not the healthiest form of transportation. Very restricted space for movement and a suboptimal sitting posture can, especially in long-distance commuters and professional drivers, lead to physical and mental suffering, such as physical fatigue. With the development of autonomous cars, which relieve drivers from the driving task and offer a much wider range of movements and incar interactions, new possibilities of physical exercises have emerged. To explore how to implement physical exercises into the car context, Sven Krome, Jussi Holopainen and Stefan Greuter developed an in-car fitness program AutoGym, which translates the traffic into an exertion game.

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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 still can show off due to the constant updates and good relationship between developers and #community.

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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.

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