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Back in April NOAA’s long-range outlook for the month of May was predicting warmer than normal temperatures across all of Wyoming. So far that has yet to fully materialize here

Kristina Rowe You’ve undoubtedly seen a Joe Skilz mural in Deep Ellum, so you might do a double-take when you see his art in a grocery store beer aisle. That all came about when 3 Nations Brewing decided to take a new approach to their beer can design. The brewery reached out to local mural artists, looking for a way to bring something exciting and recognizable to the design, and ended up selecting the artist best known as “Skilz” for the project. All of the brewery’s core beers now feature a character created by Skilz on the can. Each one is unique and was designed based on the arti...

Just because game companies collect our data, that doesn’t mean they can automatically control how we behave. Data does not rob us of our agency.

"Not reflective of the overwhelmingly positive and enjoyable experience the majority of players have." The Interactive Games and Entertainment Association (IGEA) has labelled a report by ABC’s Four Corners as “unbalanced and not reflective of the overwhelmingly positive and enjoyable experience the majority of players have.” Four Corners’ report, “Are You Being Played,” aired last night and is now available on YouTube as “Video gaming investigated: The sneaky tactics used to take your time and money” (available in full below). Predominently, the report focused on “the busine...

The ABC’s latest Four Corners report is an investigation into how videogames are “deliberately designed to get people hooked”. It describes the use of gambling-like “loot boxes” in games, the hotly debated notion of videogame addiction and, to a lesser extent, the “predatory techniques” of using user data and AI to increase spending in freemium games (free to play games which are monetised through in-app transactions and advertising). The process of monetising and collecting data through videogames does require scrutiny, as it can be problematic for some users. But in working ou...