Blame AI for Your Empty Wallet

AI companies are buying up GPUs and memory faster than they can be made, and consumers are stuck with the bill. If your PC upgrade plans feel cursed, you are not imagining it.

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Narratives of Escape Rooms

Some escape rooms are experimenting with ways of bringing new genres into the scene In their article titled ’Escape Rooms and the Seductive Ubiquity of Capture’ published in Analog Game…

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Finnish Game Jam Scene

Annakaisa Kultima, Kati Alha and Timo Nummenmaa, researchers at the University of Tampere, have coauthored a paper at the Academic Mindtrek 2016 that presents a case study of Finnish Game Jam and of the community built around it. Consisting of post-event surveys collected during 2010–2016 and statistics collected from the event participant registration forms, the study provides an overview of the Finnish Game Jam scene and some suggestions for fostering similar game development ecosystems with national support schemes.

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