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25 articles

What collectible video games are worth, and why: auctions, price lists, market curves and records broken. Verified data, read for what it is, with no headline hype.

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Collectibles (memorabilia), no longer just 'objects', but investments!

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Collectibles (memorabilia), no longer just 'objects', but investments!

The collectibles market has been flourishing for many years now. Its scale has generated global interest that is still pushing it toward uncharted and fascinating territories. 

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The Games Market company certified ISO 9001 by Bureau Veritas

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Crossmediality! Media Multiverse and the Role of Video Games

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The Benefits of Playing Video Games as a Family

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GamesAndMovies and The Games Market, a New Alliance!

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Thanks, but no tariffs!

We could call it a new kind of global conflict, the Tariff War that has been threatening the world economy for some time now.

by Simon Larocca

Virtual Reality vs Classic Video Games, the Role of the Player's Imagination

All our experiences are made up of a comfort zone in which we live at ease and another that we could define as unknown, unfamiliar, an unexplored jungle that nevertheless irresistibly attracts us and which we can hardly resist.

by Simon Larocca

Nintendo removes Super Soccer, the beginning of the end?

If dreams die at dawn, then Super Soccer’s will be one of the saddest wake-ups ever. The endless debate between Physical and Digital takes on a new, and perhaps fatal, chapter, opening the way to heated discussions about what is right and w...

by Simon Larocca

Video Games, Cognitive and Social Enhancement

As you well know by now, I find it stimulating to keep up to date on the relationship between video games and society, in relation to the latest frontiers of entertainment. Recently, some studies have examined the connection that exists between Videogio

by Simon Larocca

Games Were Better Played When the Graphics Were Worse

I’ll raise my hands and make it clear right away: yes, the title may sound like a boomer-style provocation, the kind that makes you smile and shake your head, but let’s admit it, there’s a grain of truth in it that we can’t ignore.

by Simon Larocca

But Are Video Games for Old People?

The perennial questions, the ones that cyclically return to everyone’s lips, experts and non-experts alike. Will Martin ever finish his fantasy saga? Does the spinning top in Inception fall or not? Do video games harm our young people? But above all, are they “for old people”?

by Simon Larocca

Videogames and art, a thin boundary

If you’ve been following me on these pages for a while, you’ll know that one of the key points I like to push often is the ennoblement of the videogame medium, a slow but fundamental process that began more or less around the end of the Nineties. Paradoxically

by Simon Larocca

Video Games and the Autism Spectrum: The Future of Therapies in Medicine

Playing is one of the very first activities we learn to love, and one that helps shape us in body and soul. Human beings, understood as a form of life endowed with emotions, put the act of play into practice in order to interact with the world around us

by Simon Larocca

Video Games When Political Correctness Did Not Exist

You may have found yourselves, in recent times, stumbling across new terminology during your wanderings through the ether, making your way through all the modern social networks among reels, content, and TikTokers with embarrassing choreography. Woke culture, forced Anglicisms...

by Simon Larocca

Entertainment That Makes You Think, Politics in Video Games

You are an android.

by Simon Larocca

The value of physical preservation. XBOX 360 shuts down the store.

Everything that has a beginning is destined to have an end, sooner or later. Microsoft has announced the official closure of the digital marketplace belonging to its legendary XBOX 360, and the world of entertainment has suffered an epochal jolt,

by Simon Larocca

Video Games and Gamers in 2023: IIDEA Report Analysis

The video game market has for many years now represented a more than substantial portion of the global economic system: major names in the industry, from Bill Gates, who opened the door to the challenge against the Japanese giants with his

by Simon Larocca

Trends, Engagement and AI: The Future and the Present Are Blending Together

2024 is speeding toward the future, and perhaps it is still too early for official industry takeaways, but between festivals dedicated to emerging Italian new developers (the interesting event organized by IIDEA called First Playable in July in Florence) and the rumors about “even newer” generation consoles that will invade our homes in the coming years, the gaming world has never been so prolific.

by Simon Larocca