The influence of video game rewards on the player experience! Here's a link to our sparkling new paper - anyone can access for free for the next 48 days: authors.elsevier.com/c/1X6qV2f~UW4l…

Neat write-up on a pretty cool method for evaluating the player experience: medium.com/@derekpost/vis…

Announced the QUT Game Development Club's mid-year VR project! Check out the event over on the Facebook Page: facebook.com/groups/qutgdc/

Our very own Daniel Johnson (Daniel Johnson) chimes in on gaming addiction. "When we pathologise those things ... we start confusing healthy normal behaviour with unhealthy abnormal behaviour." abc.net.au/triplej/progra…

Esports & Competitive Gaming (June 2018). Esports Games are potentially multiple and varied, and allow very different video game experiences. Here is the latest updated collaborative mapping of all these possibilities, whether the games have a competitive pro or amateur scene.

"Board games are a magnet for people to come together." GRIDLab's Selen Turkay on bonding with #boardgames and #tabletop games 🐲🎲 abc.net.au/news/2018-06-2… via @ABCNews

New Psychology of Games article is up: Part of why Fortnite is so popular is the way it uses random rewards –and I don’t mean just loot drops. psychologyofgames.com/2018/07/fortni…

We have a short-standing tradition at the GRID Lab of getting together fortnightly to read/discuss an interesting paper that we might have otherwise missed. Broaden your horizons with us! This fortnight: teabagging in video games journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

If you missed it, here are the intro slides to our #fdg18 panel #comingshitstorm on game design & research ethics in the age of big game data and automated engagement optimisation: j.mp/2Mugqxy

This fortnight's bonus reading: The ethics of human-chicken relationships in video games: the origins of the digital chicken (Fothergill & Flick, 2016). 🐔 dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?i…

Huge thanks to Diddy and QUT Esports for hosting our wellplayedproject.com event today. All the fun was had and we’re already making plans for the next event (make sure you register your interest). Shout out to all our online participants (not featured in our photos)

The latest GRID lab paper "Self-Regulation as a Mediator of the Associations Between Passion for Video Games and Well-Being" is free to download at present (before it goes behind the journal paywall). Please enjoy :-) bit.ly/3szs2Xd

Keen on #science, beer or both? Pint of Science combines 🔬& 🍻 with 88 events across Australia May 14-16. Learn something new over a brew! Program & tickets: pintofscience.com.au. Proudly powered by CSIRO, Australia's national science agency.

The WellPlayed Project is hosting a social gaming session at #Netherworld in #Brisbane this Sunday (13/05)! Come along, play video games, help with games research, and maybe win a shiny new PS4 or Xbox One: bit.ly/2wnlh0b

Thanks all for coming to the WellPlayed event at #Netherworld this past Sunday! Cubes were exploded, strange jelly physics fights on top of blimps were had, and prizes were won.

Are you intrinsically motivated to install virtual drywall? x.com/JamieMadigan/s…