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Holly and I are both gamers, and while I’m kind of an introvert, neither of us minds being around people. Yet, we both play massively multiplayer online games (MMOs) as though they were for single players. Sometimes, it’s like the other people aren’t even there. Why do we do this? Does anyone else?
Today’s Unsurprising Research: (Some) Gamers Make Worse Drivers
by Tracy V. Wilson | February 7, 2011
Making the rounds today in blogs like Jalopnik and SyFy’s Blastr is a study from Continental Tires, whose results suggest that gamers who play lots of racing games are more aggressive, take more risks and judge their driving skills higher than non-gamers.
Based on personal experience, I’m not at all surprised.
I’ve seen a lot of headlines about GameCrush — the service that lets guys pay women to play PC or Xbox games with them, complete with voice chat and cam feed — over the last couple of days. But it took TechStuff’s Jonathan Strickland walking into my office to ask me about it for me to really think anything beyond, “I wonder what the Frag Dolls think of that?” (Answer: If they have an opinion, they haven’t said what it is yet in the Frag Dolls blogs or on Twitter.)
‘Smart’ armor learns more with every bullet – “Smart armor being developed by scientists and engineers at U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center in Michigan can not only predict its own failure, but also identify the size of bullets shot at it and even generate electrical power upon impact…” 10 First Person [...]
MIT Scientist Explains OLEDs by Electrocuting a Pickle – “How do Sony’s and LG’s OLED TVs work? MIT professor Vladimir Bulovic explains using a glowing pickle and an accent to die for…” European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre – Click on “Worldwide Earthquakes” tab to see recent quakes with magnitudes greater than 4.0. Looks like there were about [...]
A headline caught my eye in a post from Marshall Brain’s BrainStuff blog today: “Survey: Average Gamer is 35, Fat and Bummed,” from MSNBC. As an avid gamer who may or may not meet (or nearly meet) one or more of those traits, I naturally felt compelled to look. And then, since I work at HowStuffWorks.com, I felt compelled to go read the original paper.
It’s not surprising that “Health-Risk Correlates of Video-Game Playing Among Adults,” published in the October issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, reports such a downer of a conclusion. Its introduction references a litany of studies on the downsides of gaming, which link video games to poor health, aggressive behavior, weight gain, musculoskeletal problems, bad grades, delinquency and, of course, video game addiction.
We’ll get into some of the other reasons for the report’s conclusions after the jump.
Study: Average gamer is 35, fat and bummed – “A new study says the average age of video-game players in the United States is 35, and oh, by the way: They’re overweight and tend to be depressed…” iTunes reps 1 in every 4 songs sold in U.S. – “iTunes-purchased songs now account for 25 percent [...]
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