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Survey Says You’ll Spend About Two Years Playing Video Games

A promotional survey taken by a video game price comparison site turns up an interesting stat: The average gamer will spend just under two years of his or her life, in combined time, playing video games.

July 14, 2011
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Computer Learns To Play Civilization By Reading The Instruction Manual

Starting from nothing, a computer taught itself to read the instruction manual for Civilization and saw its rate of victory jump from 46 per cent to 79 per cent.

July 9, 2011
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Video Games Improve Marijuana Performance 43%

There aren’t many things that marijuana users say weed can’t make better. Take this guy I used to know. His name was Mike. Every once in a while we’d hang out with a few other guys and play ridiculous amounts of Halo 2. Occasionally Mike would light up during our fragfests.

July 1, 2011
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Would You Like To Take A World Of Warcraft Questionnaire?

The University of California at Santa Cruz is studying how WoW players arrange their interface elements to do various in-game tasks, such as raiding. If you play WoW, click on through and answer away! [WoWIU Study]

May 26, 2011
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Does This Experiment Prove Violent Games Increase Aggressive Behaviour?

In a University of Missouri study sure to be cited by anti-gaming pundits for years to come, researchers provide what could be considered solid proof of the link between violent video games, aggression, and wearing funny hats.

May 15, 2011
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Study Of ‘Game Transfer Phenomena’ Examines Why Some Get Tetris-on-the-Brain

If you’ve ever closed your eyes and seen tetrominoes falling into place, or Angry Birds slamming into stone walls, you’re experiencing “game transfer phenomena,” and it involves more than mentally playing a game long after it’s finished.

May 7, 2011
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The Family That Plays (Online) Together, Stays Together

Research suggests that family communication improves if the group are playing online video games together, but if a single member is gaming, it suffers greatly as the gaming becomes a substitute for healthy communication.

May 5, 2011
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Gamers More Agitated By Playing Sports Games Than Shooters

There’s a couple of ways to look at this latest video game study out of the UK. Either there is no meaningful link between playing violent video games and aggressive behaviour, or FIFA 11 is deadlier than Modern Warfare.

April 19, 2011
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Study: Video Games Make You Eat More

So says a Canadian-led study, reports the National Post. According to the study, video games actually compel individuals to consume more food – even if they are not hungry.

April 9, 2011
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Study Finds 1980s Gamers Less Likely To Be University Graduates

A researcher at Oxford University queried adults who were 16 years old in 1986 and found a correlation between an interest in video gaming and a lower likelihood of going on to university.

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