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Study: Gamer Aggression Mimics That Of Warfare
12:00PM Owen Good | A study involving Unreal Tournament players, given a cash incentive for winning, found that gamers’ testosterone levels spiked noticeably after pwning complete strangers. When defeating friends, they produced even less testosterone than their vanquished teammates. More »
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Survey Says U.S. Gamers Older, Fatter Than Thought
12:20PM Owen Good | Hooray! Video gamers average age is that of mine – 35. Less celebrated: gamers are more likely to be unhealthier, fatter, and more depressed than others. Those are the findings of – ding ding ding!!! – a new study. More »
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New Study Delivers Old Figure: 8 Percent Are Game-Addicted
8:00AM Owen Good | Look about six people to your left. Now five down to the right. OK, one of you is addicted to video games, says a study out of Australasia that ratifies a finding in one out of Iowa State University. More »
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Study Debunks Crime/Game Connection, Takes a Poke at Researchers
7:00AM Owen Good | A prof supplies data showing exposure to violent video games has “no significant relationship” to mass shootings. In other news, exposure to “Dancing with the Stars” has no significant relationship to train robberies. More »
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Gamers More Likely To Be Surly Drunk Self-Haters
2:00AM Brian Crecente | Put on your tinfoil hats boys and girls, it’s time for another study that proves something about video games and the people who play them. More »
So How Long Do People Play Wii Games For?
11:00AM Luke Plunkett | MTV decided to find out. Using the Wii’s Nintendo Channel – which tracks the playing habits of 1.6 million Americans – they’ve yanked out some data on what games you’re playing, and for how long. More »
Strategy Games Strengthen Seniors’ Mental Facilities
3:40AM Mike Fahey | Researchers at the University of Illinois have found that playing real-time strategy games can help men and women in their 60s and 70s improve their mental skills. More »
PC Gaming Is The Largest Market
3:20AM Mike Fahey | Is PC gaming giving way to today’s more versatile and powerful consoles? Not according to a market study recently conducted by research group JPR, which claims that more gaming PC’s have been sold over the past three years than Xbox 360s, PlayStation 3s, and Wiis combined. The study, which tracks the sales of three different classes of gaming PCs over since Q3 2005, found that 196 million units have been sold between then and Q3 2008, compared to a worldwide total of 74.7 million consoles. As Edge points out, this of course doesn’t take into effect handheld gaming systems like the DS and PSP, which sold a combined 125 million units during the same period. More »
Yet Another Violent Video Game Study Releases Findings
8:00AM Owen Good | Fresh from the “Study finds violent video games do X to kids” pile, we now find — shock — playing them results in “a greater variation in Heart Rate Variability.” This isn’t straight out one’s pulse quickening. HRV is “the oscillation in the interval between consecutive heartbeats” — more or less, a measure of minute changes in heart rate. More »
