PC

Two Fitness MMOs Go Mano A Mano With Their PvP Plans

Last year, I profiled Fitocracy, which isn’t a video game per se but a gamified fitness regimen that draws from concepts familiar to role-playing video games. One MMO analogue it lacked, however, was the idea of player-vs-player combat.


October 15, 2011
In Real Life

How Making Fitness Into An Role-Playing Game Makes Us All Look And Feel Great

About four months ago I profiled Fitocracy, the social networking/fitness site that seeks to motivate gamers to hit the gym by incorporating role-playing game aspects into their workout plan. Today, Fitocracy and its founding duo received a huge profile courtesy of CNN, and it’s making all gamers look better as a result.


March 9, 2011
News

Can Video Games Keep Your Children Physically Fit?

Can exergaming really take the place of going for a brisk walk or doing a few laps in the pool? A study out of Brigham Young University finds that certain video games do count as legitimate exercise for kids.


July 21, 2010
News

If Wii Fit And Madden Had A Baby…

Fitness games are huge. Football games are huge. Ready for it? Football fitness game. From EA, on the Wii. The name is EA Sports Active NFL Training Camp and it has already made me sweat.


June 6, 2010
News

EA Sports Active Slapped With Trademark Lawsuit

The Active Network has filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against EA Sports Active, alleging the fitness title’s online use of scheduling and fitness goals covers purposes for which it holds the trademark “Active.”


May 23, 2010
In Real Life

Trump Hotels Hawk Training Sessions On Wii Fit

For $US90, you could buy Wii Fit and the Wii Balance Board and use it forever in your own home. Or you could play it for 55 minutes with a personal trainer at one of Donald Trump’s hotels.


March 9, 2010
News

The “10 Minute Solution” To Fitness Now Includes A Wii

What’s the difference between Activision’s 10 Minute Solution fitness game for the Wii and established fitness titles like Wii Fit and EA Sports Active? About $US30.


January 22, 2010
News

The Wii Loses Some Of Its Fitness Thunder To Dancetown

Show of hands. Who has heard of the video game Dancetown? You know, the video game that National Public Radio reports might better whip you into shape than Wii Fit.


January 16, 2010
In Real Life

Teen Drops 70kg With Video Game-Inspired Diet

Taylor LeBaron weighed nearly 136kg when he was 14 and has lost half of that, thanks, he told the US Today Show, due to a strategy he got from video games.


January 12, 2010
In Real Life

Boy: Playing Xbox Will Get Me A “Nowhere Job”

An ex-NBA star recently asked a group of children where playing Xbox will get them. He was promoting fitness, so he probably expected a negative answer. And he got one.