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– A look at gaming across society, culture and politics

Watch Dogs Legion: depicting a dark future in thrall to BIG DATA

Steve Boxer argues that Watch Dogs Legion paints a nightmarish picture of what would happen if we sleepwalked into letting big data control our lives

How video games are exposing the perils of big data

Tamer Asfahani examines how Watch Dogs Legion, Control and other videogames can provide the best means of teaching us how we need to control the personal data we put out into the world

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– across the platforms

Gaming in the shadow of big data at CERN

Lucy Orr recounts how, with her father wrestling with big data at CERN in search of the Higgs Boson, she has been able to witness the intersection of big data and video games since the 1970s

How BIG TECH is muscling into the games industry

In recent years, four of the five big tech companies – Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple – have followed the example of Microsoft, and entered the games industry. Steve Boxer assesses how successful their efforts have been

Watch Dogs Legion: more than a bit political

Ubisoft may say that its games aren’t political. But after playing Watch Dogs Legion, Nick Cowen knows better

Advancements you may think videogames gave us

Videogames can drive technological advancements in graphics and computing, but what real-life tech can we attribute to them? Here are some examples of tech that claim to originate from videogames, but in reality already existed long before!