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Tamer Asfahani Editor-in-Chief

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Welcome to the latest Checkpoint issue where we look at big data and how its depiction in videogames can give us an insight to its real-world use.

Of course Watch Dogs features heavily in this issue as it’s a perfect demonstration of the impact big data could have - and in some cases already does - on our every day lives.

In the last 20 years there has been an exponential rise in the use of social media and online services; banking, shopping, government services to name a few, meaning we leave a digital trail otherwise known as a digital footprint. That footprint contains information that helps build a picture about you. This makes it a lot easier for companies to target you for advertising as an example.

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Issue 21: Big Data
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Checkpoint Magazine
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
KILLING TIME
The games that have kept us entertained this month
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!
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