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Campus

BYU Humanities professors launch Y Play Games, offer video games for students to play

Emily May
By Emily May
October 21, 2024 11:40 AM
The BYU College of Humanities is offering weekly video games for students to play and a lecture series to educate students about each game and their connections to the humanities.
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Entertainment

BYU students discuss new 'Hogwarts Legacy' game

By Kalei Fink
March 02, 2023 12:00 AM
The return of a favorite mystical universe is back.
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Art

BYU Harold B. Lee Library features 'Latter-day Gamers' exhibit

By Joe Wirthlin
November 29, 2022 12:00 AM
The O.C. Tanner Exhibition Room on the first floor of BYU’s Harold B. Lee Library is hosting the “Latter-day Gamers” exhibit until June 2023.
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Sports

A Rare Woman

October 27, 2022 12:00 AM
Story, graphics, and photos by Samantha Birrell.
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Campus Events

Esports on rise at BYU

By Mickey Randle
November 11, 2019 12:00 AM
Most BYU students have played a video game at some point in their lives. Video games can be a fun and even social activity, but some students are taking things to the next level with competitive games, sometimes called esports.
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Art

BYU students create commercially competitive video games

By Sam Bigelow
February 05, 2019 12:00 AM
BYU students attend E3 2018 to present their student-developed fighting game 'Beatboxers.' According to professor Seth Holladay, BYU has been to E3 as top-five awards finalists four times. (Seth Holladay)
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Campus

Pokemon Go: the latest and strangest news

By Theresa Davis
August 03, 2016 12:00 AM
Logan tells Pokemon players to stay out of parks after dark
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Technology

Storytelling steps into the future with virtual reality

By Saul Marquez
July 05, 2016 12:00 AM
BYU student Austin Rodriguez shoots a bow and arrow in virtual reality using the HTC Vive. The Vive is one of a few new virtual reality systems to come out this year. (Natalie Stoker)
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Movies & Television

BYU study shows people act unethically when exposed to violent media

By Jordan Hammond
December 15, 2015 12:00 AM
David Hoynacki, Jonathan Flint, Donald Scott, and Stacey Mawhinney play video games together. A recent study provides a correlation between unethical decision making and exposure to on-screen violence. (Andrew Van Wagenen)
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Technology

Super Mario fans celebrate Mario's 30th birthday

By Ethan Winkleman
October 13, 2015 12:00 AM
Siblings play Mario together. Mario is a long-time tradition that is continuing in families. (Katie Winkleman)
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Books

New video game based on the Book of Mormon is released

By Savannah Hawkins
September 09, 2015 12:00 AM
Fourteen-year-old Levi Hilton was creating his own video game while other 14-year-olds were playing them.
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Local

Salt Lake holds new gaming convention in August

April 02, 2015 12:00 AM
By Aaron Hastings
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Campus Events

14 things to do at BYU for Valentine's Day Weekend

By Lindsey Williams
February 11, 2015 12:00 AM
Plans for Valentine's Day Weekend can be painful for many. Both singles and couples dread the pressure to make it special, and are often at a loss for what to do. For those with no plans for the weekend, look no further than the campus events at BYU.
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Campus Events

First BYU Video Games Symposium explores creativity, future of gaming

By Jenna Koford
February 11, 2015 12:00 AM
BYU's first Video Game Studies Symposium will take place Thursday, Feb. 12–Saturday, Feb. 14, in the Harris Fine Arts Center.
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Nation

Biden seeks video game industry input on guns

January 11, 2013 12:00 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) ‚ Looking for broader remedies to gun violence, Vice President Joe Biden is reaching out to the video game industry for ideas as the White House seeks to assemble proposals in response to last month's massacre at a Connecticut elementary school.
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Art

Jed Henry's 'Ukiyo-e Heroes'

By Lindsey Williams
October 23, 2012 12:00 AM
Mario has traveled back in time to the 19th century in a new artistic project, 'Ukiyo-e Heroes.'
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Local

Utah hunting and fishing declines

By Clark Gerber
September 26, 2012 12:00 AM
A new survey shows that hunting and fishing are on the decline in Utah and that has the Division of Wildlife Resources concerned. The division says the problem isn't a lack of experienced hunters; there just aren't as many newcomers. Sales have steadily declined in the last two decades and the division says a different kind of gaming is a big part of the reason. College students playing video games is nothing new, but who knew it could have an impact on the ecosystem?
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Art

MOA will feature fun, video game based art this Spring

By Alison Moore
April 27, 2012 12:00 AM
Spring visitors to the MOA's Sculpture Garden might feel they've stumbled into a life-size arcade game when they encounter the work of post-minimalism artist Mike Whiting.
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