Gamescon 2025

Show Notes

... We'll take a look at a new wave of evidence-backed digital therapies. Nintendo is doing Nintendo things and we'll take a look at everything that was announced at Gamescon.
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Your therapist might not be a person anymore—or at least, not only a person. It could be a smartwatch that vibrates just before a nightmare consumes your sleep. It could be a video game that rewires your attention span. It might even be a headset that helps you rehearse exposure therapy in a controlled virtual environment.
https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/your-next-therapist-could-be-a-video-game-or-a-wearable-and-it-might-actually-work/

Nintendo has secured another payout from a lawsuit it pursued against a producer of products designed to help pirate Switch games. Already notorious for its hardline approach to piracy, modding, and emulation, Nintendo has been granted a monetary judgment against Ryan Michael Daly by a Washington district court.
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/court-orders-man-to-pay-nintendo-2-million-to-settle-modding-and-piracy-lawsuit/1100-6534548/

While we were away Europes largest gaming convention happened. Gamescon was quite the event so here's the highlights of what was announced.
https://www.thegamer.com/everything-announced-revealed-gamescom-opening-night-live-2025/
https://www.ign.com/articles/gamescom-opening-night-live-2025-everything-announced
https://www.pcgamesn.com/gamescom/announcements-2025

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