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The TV show Adolescence is causing a rush to ban phones for kids. We can do better than that.

My experience at Nordic Larp’s annual conference in Oslo.

The tricky economics of writing about immersive art, plus troubling plans for a new £600m historical theme park in the UK.

A vast underground multistorey gallery with an astonishing collection of installation and immersive art – and a surfeit of irony.

The best TV show of the year, a genealogical mystery game, an ethnographic exploration of VR, and all things Umberto Eco.

Junk playgrounds once let children set fires, saw wood, build towers, and write operettas. What happened to them?

Why spend £500 for good writing when you could spend nothing for bad?

A metafictional immersive theatre show for one, and talking down a murderous AI spaceship

Ten of the books I’ve enjoyed this year, mostly related to my research on immersive art.

If gamification isn’t specific to its subject, it won’t be effective.