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‘An essay game is a modest experiment. It’s basically an attempt, an incomplete form that tries to rearrange existing knowledge.’ (Image courtesy of artist)

Black liberation dreaming: Nolan Oswald Dennis’s digital essay game ‘a sun.black’

Nolan Oswald Dennis’s digitial essay game, ‘a sun.black’, keeps all options available as it examines decolonisation

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I Don’t Go Outside

Seeing that all gatherings of a 100 or more people have been prohibited, below is a list of things you could do with your time while you self isolate

What of the games we used to play?

From umGushe, Bayishoza to SmaDlamini, writer Milisuthando Bongela asks "how did these games travel across the country"?

Research suggests that gamification

How games can hook pupils with short attention spans

With modern day attention spans less than eight seconds, educators are turning to games as new way of engaging with learners.

Local gaming heroes rAge on

The rAge expo was a feast of global gaming, but the growing presence of local developers was a significant phenomenon, writes Arthur Goldstuck.

Your A to Z of gaming in 2014

With the release of the XBox One and Playstation 4, game developers have been hard at work developing new titles to keep gamers glued to their TVs.

Grand Theft Auto V.

Best of 2013: Games

Ines Schumacher and Ben Kelly take a look at the top five games of the year.

From bored to board

Could the vagaries of politics be behind the resurgence of board games?

Nguni project goes from strength to strength

Serious about games

Since November 2011 the North-West University’s Vaal Triangle campus has housed the Serious Games Institute–South Africa (SGI-SA).