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The future of gaming is as opaque as ever

Game Daily

Technologies and “solutions” abound, like blockchain, AI, crypto, NFT trading, virtual and augmented reality, play-to-earn, Web3 and cloud computing. Unfortunately, as a concept, it covers a vastness that defies exact understanding, nor even broad definitional consensus. I doubt these thoughts occurred to Sweeney either.

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What Web3 Games Should Learn from Designing Fun Game Markets

Deconstructor of Fun

If you replaced Gamestop with a staid company like Sherwin-Williams Paint, retail traders would show far less interest. To a diehard sports fan or competitive gamer, winning the fantasy sports league provides emotional value on top of the financial value of any prize money.

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We Dwell in Possibility as queer gardening simulation

Radiator Blog

Naked simulated AI people ("peeps") arrive and flow across the terrain. In her excellent book Narrative As Virtual Reality , Marie-Laure Ryan outlines some common understandings of virtual: virtual as "digital": inspired by computer concepts like virtual memory. It's a zoomed out perspective, it's not immersive, it's a simulation.