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Making learning fun and engaging

 Traditional teaching methods can often be dry and uninspiring, leading to disengaged students. Incorporating gaming into education can make learning fun and engaging helping students to stay focused and motivated.#

How your gaming habits could help you secure a job

  In the past, video games have had a bad reputation. But video games are actually good for your brain. Every time you play a video game it exercises your brain’s neuroplasticity. This is the part of your brain that helps you learn new skills. As you get older your brain’s neuroplasticity naturally declines. However, playing video games is known to have a positive impact on this ability regardless of your age.  We live in a world where we are always trying to improve ourselves or be constantly productive. We all need to relax from time to time, otherwise, we can suffer from cognitive fatigue. Because video games are fun, they allow us to switch off from the daily grind whilst unconsciously improving our skills at the same time.  They also have a number of benefits. These researchers found that playing these games can help your perception, attention, memory, and decision-making skills. These skills aren’t only important in video games, they can also be used throughout our lives – partic

Future of AI in video games focuses on the human connection

  The future of gameplay is reliant on the usage and perfection of Emotional AI and its ability to create and emulate realistic and human relationships. App developers, students and researchers are using the transformative power of AI technologies to develop people's emotional connection to video games. Since the 2001 introduction of the first AI digital helper Cortana in Halo, technology and AI have become pivotal to gameplay. With all the buzz around the release of a new iteration of the popular GPT-3 video game tool, IT developers are more in tune than ever with the needs of creative deployments of popular AI technology. The future of AI in video games lies in the ability of the technology to increase the human connection. The human connection Since the dawn of  chatbots and digital assistant creation , one critique has been universal: the helper is not human-like enough. This issue spans enterprises, and IT developers and startups are now developing AI that is human-like, emoti

Could video games increase your risk of Alzheimer's?

Video games could increase the risk of people developing Alzheimer's disease in later life, according to controversial new research. +2 Research by the University of Montreal found a link to mental illness. They claimed that gaming (stock image shown) uses the caudate nucleus in the brain. This can lead to a loss of grey matter in the hippocampus, and reduced volume of the hippocampus is associated with neurological and psychological disorders The research was conducted by scientists from the University of Montreal in Canada. They said that if gamers have less grey matter, owing to extended use of the caudate nucleus, then they may be more prone to mental illness. In the study, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the researchers tested 26 players and 33 non-players who wore skull caps that recorded their brainwaves and eye movements.  These movements were monitored as the player negotiated a virtual maze decorated with trees and mountains from which they had to retriev

10 REASONS WHY GAMING IS GOOD FOR YOU

  Have you ever been told that Gaming is a wastage of time? Was it your mom? Or your dad? Or your teacher? who said this because whenever you see them next tell them, “Its Bullshit”. Gaming has evolved tenfold from the 8 Bit NES Games and the demerits of gaming have turned into merits during all this time. Here are the Top 10 Reasons you can give to anyone who tells you that Gaming doesn’t give you anything. 🙂 1) GAMERS HAVE EXCELLENT HAND-EYE COORDINATION Yes, it has been scientifically proven that people who play Games over the computer/console have better hand-eye coordination than those who don’t. Have you ever wondered that you never look at your controller or keyboard but still press the correct buttons depending upon what you see in the screen, well that is why it improves your Hand-Eye Coordination. Fast games falling in the genre of Hack and Slash such as God of War and Devil May Cry involve many multi-key combos which help in developing better Hand-Eye coordination. 🙂 2) GA

Negative Effects of Video Games: It’s Worse Than You Thought

Video games have been part and parcel of kids/teenage entertainment for several years, and though their popularity has shown fluctuating trends throughout, they continue to rule the markets. The effects of playing video or computer games are both positive and negative. Here’s a bit about their negative or ill-effects. Did You Know? Playing violent video games a lot makes an individual’s brain less responsive to violence. This unknowingly leads to and increased aggressive behavior, as over time, the brain does not perceive that aggression to be anything abnormal. Video-gaming is indeed very addictive. A person developing a liking for it can go on and on with it for hours together, not even realizing the amount of time he has been spending on it. Gaming can also be extremely distracting. A person tends to lose interest in things he has been preoccupied with because the highly interactive video gaming interface tends to take control of his thought process as he gets involved. A research c