To enter the competition, as several hundred did, readers had to say whether they thought games might sometimes be more effective than school at teaching kids.
Cowboy Bebop’s original anime invades October’s horror streaming hordes
Squid Game and more traditional horror in time for Halloween dominate the streaming charts.
VR is virtually booming: Usage up 76%
Revenue in 2021 is projected to get near to 1.5 billion, and estimates from Oberlo track a 75% increase in monthly VR users over the last 5 years.
Horror battles humour in streaming wars
Stats show horror stories topping the charts of movies and TV, challenged by humour and the occasional hero.
Who are the scariest of Doctor Who’s monstrous enemies?
Readers had to vote for which creatures, aliens, and horrors were the scariest from a shortlist to enter the competition.
Data science: The most pettable computer game doggos
We also have data on the dogs that gamers wish they could pet. It’s here that we remember that gamers are weird.
Christmas crisis: Toys British shoppers should buy first
British parents might be wise to be exceptionally organised this Christmas for toy shopping.
Is the network down? ToolTester puts Xbox vs Playstation in an outage head to head
No one gets more frustrated by a website outage at the blog than me, but at least I save money when the site is offline! I’m not, for example, Sony or Microsoft with empires to run.
These are the most hated gaming brands in the world
Rave Reviews has data mined Twitter to see which gaming brands people complain about the most. That’s what they’re calling hate.
Call of Cthulhu grows again as Roll20 re-designs its market share report
Perhaps the biggest surprise in the 2021 Q2 Roll20 report is the re-design. D&D is still the most popular game played.
