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Game In College, Have Poor Time Management, Watch Grades Drop
While I'm all for the academic study of gaming, a lot of the 'scientific' studies just kill me - if you spend too much time [insert time waster of your choice here] in college, your grades could drop? Really? And people actually get funding for this kind of stuff? The paper is being published by the National Bureau of Economic Research and was conducted at Berea College, where certain conditions meant that typical college time wasters weren't present. Video games, however, were - and they found that people who brought along video games to college (or had roommates who did) spent less time studying (and had a lower GPA) than people who didn't: More »
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Games Make You Drive Faster?
Prestigious British driving school BSM recently took a survey of 1,000 drivers between the ages of 16-24 regarding how their driving habits are affected by video games, and the results showed that 27% admitted to taking more risks on the road after playing a racing game, with a quarter saying they pretend they are actually in the video game when they drive. A BSM road safety consultant said this presented an indisputable link between gaming and dangerous driving. More »
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Opting Out of In-Game Advertising
ArsTechnica claims that last year's suspicious research conclusion, that gamers actually enjoy games with advertising more than those without, is probably just as bunk as it sounds. More »
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Gamers, You Fat Whores
According to a recent report by Agence France-Presse, anyone who is reading this is likely to be a disgusting fatty. Also? A no-good, filthy whore. More »
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Videogame Violence Studies Are Often On Our Side
Our first reaction when reading about yet another games-induce-violence study is to discount it utterly, but a discussion happening over on GamesFirst right now suggests that we do the opposite, and mine these studies for their true implications. More »
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India is the New World of Gaming
Wired has a great article up, detailing India's rise as a gamer society and the proliferation of cybercafes and gaming tournaments through India's growing middle class. India today is China of 2001: A rumbling cluster of highly compressed gamers ready to explode in a Big Bang across the entirety of the subcontinent. More »
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