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Test your millennial knowledge with this mindless, fun game
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 6.8.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | emojis, game
Summary | In the new app/game called "guess the emoji", users need to guess the meaning of emojis. Although the game is mindless and perhaps stupid, it is still fun.
Image Description | N/A
Als die Server zusammenbrechen, fliessen die Tränen
(As the servers break down, the tears start )
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 27.7.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | game, smartphone, threat, virtual reality
Summary | Pokémon Go is a hugely popular smartphone video game that lets players catch virtual Pokémons in their real surroundings by means of augmented reality. A huge public Pokémon Go event was held in Chicago with 20'000 attendees. At some point the inevitable happemned, the servers collapsed and the app would not work any more. Many players became very upset and Pokémon Go reimbursed all attendees who paid to be at the event with a rare Pokémon.
Image Description | An image of a park with Pokémon, a screenshot of a Pokémon Go map, and a hand holding a smartphone with Pokémon Go open on the screen.
Image Tags | hand(s), smartphone
Mother's horror after sick perverts target her six-year-old daughter through online gaming app for young children
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 26.1.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | childhood, game, pornography, privacy, threat
Summary | Using a popular mobile gaming app (Roblox), perverts have been sending kids explicit and inappropriate messages. They've been trying to lure kids and ask them for their addresses. Jemma Casey is the mother of 6-year old Morgan, who was sent indecent messages. Other children have also been targeted.
Image Description | Photograph of a mom and her daughter, screenshots of inappropriate messages, and photograph of a mom and her son.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s), text
Letter of recommendation: Duolingo
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 27.7.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | digitized education, game, smartphone, translation
Summary | Duolingo is a language learning app that is designed like a game and rewards users with points when they finish a lesson. It is similarly limited in its effectiveness, it may familiarize users with a foreign language but it is entirely text-based rather than spoken. It is just a mildly more productive way to waste time on a smartphone.
Image Description | Illustration showing greeting in various languages.
Image Tags | text
Match wits against friends or strangers in this puzzle game
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 2.4.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | game, social media
Summary | Brain Wars is a new competitive puzzle game. You can add your Facebook and Twitter friends, or play with strangers.
Image Description | N/A
Kopfschuss: Glatte Eins!
(Shot to the head: A+!)
Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 18.5.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | game, gender, school, threat, youth
Summary | A school in Norway is offering a course in E-sport, i.e. playing online team sports in shooter video games like Counter:Strike. The course is very popular among the male students (only one female student has taken the course) and has shown that students at risk of failing the year tend to do better in school overall when they are in a video game class. They get boosts of self-confidence because they can hold presentations about something they are passionate about. The school wants to reflect their students' reality in their curriculum and video games are a passion of many students and a future job for some of them. Shooter games are less stigmatized in Norway than in Germany.
Image Description | Image of male students playing video games.
Image Tags | game, male(s), school
So fressen Apps ihr Geld auf
(This is how apps eat your money)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 24.7.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | childhood, game, marketing, smartphone, threat
Summary | Many seemingly free gaming apps off in-app purchases after being downloaded. This is dangerous when unsuperised children use the app - some parents have already received in-app purchase bills of several thousand euros. It is best to either supervise children when playing game apps or to only let them play offline games which do not have pop-up advertising for in-app purchases.
Image Description | A PacMan head.
"Wir wollen die Menschen aus ihrem Zombiesein aufwecken"
("We want to wake people up from their zombie existence")
Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 3.3.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | game, smartphone, threat, virtual reality
Summary | Pokémon Go is an augmented reality game. It is different from virtual reality in that it uses the real topography around the player as the site of the game which is virtually enhanced with Pokémon which can be "caught". It was designed to make people engage with the outside world and each other while playing, to lead people into parks they never went to. The most effective way to do that nowadays is to create an incentive with the smartphone.
Image Description | Getty image of Pokémon Go players at night and a portrait of the interviewee.
Image Tags | male(s), smartphone
Zürich in Zeichen
(Zürich in signs)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 14.1.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis, game
Summary | Many new emojis have arrived to our smartphones recently. Tages-Anzeiger offers various emoji riddles for readers to participate. Keywords specific to Zürich are depicted as a sequence of emojis that readers have to decode.
Image Description | Emoji riddles.
Image Tags | emojis
They don't learn the alphabet and won't have to sit an exam
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 2.2.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | (mental) health, addiction, brain, game, law, school, threat
Summary | A mother who homeschools their children lets them play video games for up to seven hours a day. Experts criticize this because excessive video gaming reduces the development of empathy and other important psychological and cognitive developments. They are clearly not receiving nearly as much educaton as children in the public school system. All this is however legal as homeschooled children do not need to follow the curriculum or sit standardized exams.
Image Description | Portrait of the mother with her three children all holding a video game controller.
Image Tags | female(s), game, male(s)
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