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Study: Playing Games Hurts Income, By The Minute
7:20AM Stephen Totilo | Studies about video games say the darnedest things. Either it is plainly obvious that being a gamer hurts your income — because you have to spend money on these games! — or there is a mathematical revelation here. More »
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Gamers Not Great At Finding Explosives
3:30PM Owen Good | Soldiers who grew up in the burbs playing video games instead of shooting varmints in the country, or avoiding trouble in a bad neighbourhood, are singled out by Army research as particularly poor at spotting roadside bombs. More »
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Gamer Kid Leads Study Showing Connection To Joint Pain
11:00AM Owen Good | A St. Louis fifth-grader, with help from his father (a rheumatologist) and researchers from New York University, led a study showing kids were more likely to complain of joint pain the more they played video games. More »
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ESA Report: More Than 250 Colleges Offer Game Degrees
6:00AM Owen Good | More than 50 game development programs have been added to US colleges’ curricula in the past year, bringing to 254 the number of universities offering degrees in video game design, programming and art, according to the Entertainment Software Association. More »
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Study Manages To Make Game Ads Even More Obnoxious
3:00AM Owen Good | Hey you got your video game violence in my in-game ads! You got your in-game ads in my video game violence! Two great trends go great together in a study that says blood-spattered brands are more memorable. Well, duh. More »
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Tetris Gives You Thicker Brain Meats
1:40AM Mike Fahey | A study conducted by neuroscientist Richard Haier has determined that performing a “challenging visuospatial task” like Tetris can actually alter the structure of your brain. More »
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NPD Says Half Of All Americans Are Gamers
8:30AM Owen Good | There’s probably a lot of solitaire and online bridge-playing padding that, but a new NPD report says 170 million Americans play video games. The U.S. population is 304 million. More »
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12% Of Americans Buy Digital Goods
11:00PM Luke Plunkett | Data taken by research firm Magid and Associates has revealed that an estimated 12% of Americans bought some kind of virtual or digital item over the past 12 months. More »
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Report: Minorities Underserved, Underrepresented By Games
10:40AM Michael McWhertor | A report from the USC Annenberg School for Communication finds that the video game racial landscape has a long way to go to match that of American society, faring about as well or worse than that of television. More »
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