Player’s Toolkit: A Guide to Antidote Playtests and Studies
Introduction At Antidote, we offer a variety of exciting initiatives for our community members to get involved in. Some come with the chance to win fantastic prizes, while others provide different kinds of rewards. Whether you’re diving into the gameplay of unreleased games or participating in more ‘formal’ activities like interviews and surveys, there’s always […]
Women in Gaming: Mapping Women’s Territories of Relaxation
We recently asked women in our player community about their experiences with video games, including how they began playing, their other hobbies, and how they balance their obligations with their free time. 405 women from diverse backgrounds, geographic locations and from 16 to 77 YO collaborated in this research. Based on the results, here are […]
Antidote Community: Top Games of 2022
As the year is coming to an end, we gathered the picks provided by you, our players, and were able to make Antidote’s Community 2022 Top 10 Video games! We divided it into 2 lists, because based on our experience, we assumed that not everyone is up-to-date with the latest video games, and sometimes that […]
Elden Ring – A Masterclass on the Open World Genre – Game Review #6
Ooooh, Elden Ring! After an excruciatingly long wait since it’s announcement all the way back in 2019, FromSoftware‘s newest game is finally here – and it promises to be bigger and bolder than anything else they have done before. Combining the collective knowledge of all their previous projects and mixing that up with a vast […]
Way Too Hard Or Way Too Easy? The balance between anxiety and boredom in video games
Do you remember the last time you quit playing a game when you got stuck in one of its levels because you got too frustrated? Or on the other hand, do you remember a game that was so simple you eventually got bored and stopped playing it? Kind of disappointing, isn’t it? This type of […]
Top 8 PC Video Games of 2021 You Can’t Miss
We all can agree that 2021 hasn’t been the best year in a lot of aspects, but luckily we can’t complain about the pc video games releases that it brought into our hands. In today’s post we will make a brief recap about the top 8 PC video games of 2021. We will start from […]
The benefits of playing video games as a child.
With the increase of players in the gaming industry, it is no surprise that nowadays there are lots of parents and caregivers wondering how playing video games for hours will affect their children. In fact, you might be one of them reading this post right now, asking yourself: “should I be concerned about my child […]
10 Things you should do to get a job in the Gaming Industry
If you landed here you probably have been thinking about your future inside the Gaming Industry. In today’s post we are going to talk about the 10 most important things you should do in order to get your video-gaming dream job. Because remember, there is a big difference from being a hardcore gamer to actually […]
From Hardcore Gamer to UX Game Designer
As most of you might already know, the gaming industry is quite new and so it is the education related to it. In fact, it is so new that last year was celebrated the tenth anniversary of the first video game university degree in Spain. That is a very short time compared, for example, to […]
Rewards on Antidote – How do they work?
With Antidote you get to experiment and play the newest games while they are in development, but you can also get exciting rewards for doing so! These rewards are divided into 2 categories: Antidote Coins and Experience Points. While both of these rewards can be obtained by simply playing and testing games, they do serve different […]