The medium’s greatest threat, they concluded, is not that it turns people into vicious killers, or that it dulls their communication skills, or that it sunders their minds from reality. On a warm evening in 2014, Attila Szantner, a Hungarian Web entrepreneur, and his friend Bernard Revaz, a Swiss physics researcher, sat on a balcony in Geneva and discussed the perils of video games.

The New Yorker - Better research through video games.

As scientists announced that they had found the 'holy grail' of exoplanets – a solar system of seven worlds that could support life – a game announced that it was beginning the search for the next one. Nasa might have announced the biggest exoplanet find ever, but gamers are already gearing up find the next one.

Independent - Next exoplanet or solar system discovery could be made accidentially by gamers, not by NASA.

The space-based online game EVE Online, which bills itself as 'the world’s largest living work of science fiction', is delving into science fact by asking players to help search for planets outside our solar system. If you enjoy navigating distant galaxies, leading intergalactic alliances and fighting space pirates, you might want to take on another challenge - discovering real planets.

New Scientist - EVE Online gamers will seek real exoplanets in virtual universe.Project Discovery's latest citizen science experiment moves on from proteins to exoplanets. ArsTechnica UK - How the Space Pope is helping to find real exoplanets by playing Eve Online.

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