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Shocking Study Finds Video Games Interfere With Schoolwork
Direct from the We Could Have Told You That department, a recent study determined that introducing young boys to video games has a direct effect on their academic performance. Introducing a major distraction interferes with learning? Who’d have thought? The study conducted by Robert Weis, a psychologist at Ohio’s Denison University, is the first controlled…
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Comic Book Series Helps Make Sense Of Nier
DC’s Wildstorm imprint makes video game comic book magic once more with Nier, a three-part online comic book series detailing the fall of humanity and its lasting effects in Square Enix’s upcoming action RPG. Nier is a video game with a strong focus on one particular plot point: Nier fights to find a way to…
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Drop Into Skate 3 In Early May
Riding high on the failure of Tony Hawk: Ride and feeling absolutely no threat from Ubisoft’s upcoming Shaun White skateboarding title, EA gears up for an early May release for the third installment of the Skate series. Skate 3 isn’t just the latest game in the Skate franchise, complete with a whole new city, a…
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Wii-Exclusive Samurai Warriors 3 Journeys To America
Tecmo Koei’s Wii-exclusive third entry in the Samurai Warriors series is coming to North America this fall, with Nintendo of America signing on to handle publishing and distribution duties. Nintendo apparently sees something special in the third entry in the Samurai Warriors series, a spinoff of the storied Dynasty Warriors franchise. The game was released…
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In This Life-Saving Minesweeper Game, The Mines Are Real
Every year upwards of 20,000 lives are lost in war-torn countries due to unexploded ordinance such as land mines. Can a video game educate children about land mine avoidance where traditional methods have failed? That’s the hope of Corey Bohil, a visiting assistant professor at Michigan State University’s Department of Telecommunication and project lead on…
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Sam Fisher Tweets His Quest For Vengeance
With the NSA’s Third Echelon taking the hunt for Sam Fisher to Facebook, the protagonist of Splinter Cell: Conviction turns to the only people he can trust – millions of Twitter users. Yesterday the Third Echelon commandeered a Facebook page, using it to warn the general populace of one Sam Fisher, an armed and dangerous…
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How Do You Name Your Pokémon?
Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver hit the streets Sunday, and the widespread capture and training of those adorable little fighting machines began anew. With so many Pokémon to capture, how do you tell them apart? By assigning clever nicknames, that’s how. When I played the original Pokémon Red, way back when I was still technically too…
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The Video Game Hero That Makes Chuck Norris Look Lame
Atlus’ “ultimate love letter to retro gamers” 3D Dot Games Heroes features a main character so powerful that dragons consider him a boss fight. Funny, he just looks like a pile of blocks to me. Of course what the hero of 3D Dot Game Heroes looks like is completely up to you. You can either…
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Tiger Woods Returns With The Masters
A Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 release without an active star is no longer a going concern, with the golfer’s return to active duty at the Masters Tournament next month. Scandalized golfer Tiger Woods got his start at the Masters Tournament in 1997, and that’s where he’ll make his return next month. The legendary golfer,…
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The Gaming Headset For Every Platform
Astro Gaming, the creators of the lovely yet pricey A40 Audio System, now introduce the (also pricey) A30 Cross-Gaming Headset, a headset compatible with just about anything you’d want to play a multiplayer game on. I own too many gaming headsets. I have one for the PC, one for the 360, a Bluetooth for the…
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DJ Hero: Me Versus JAY-Z Versus Eminem
DJ Hero’s track lineup expands by three this Thursday with the JAY-Z vs. Eminem Pack. Bear witness as I mutter through an exciting mashup of “Can I Get A…” by JAY-Z mixed With “Lose Yourself” by Eminem. DJ Hero is a game that’s a little tricky to pick back up after spending five or so…
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Donkey Kong Country 2 Inspires Three Disc Music Remix Album
Two and a half years ago, the enormously talented community at OverClocked Remix set about creating the ultimate Donkey Kong Country 2 remix album. Featuring 1.25GB of amazing free music, the end result is definitely Serious Monkey Business. Donkey Kong Country 2: Serious Monkey Business, available now as a free download, compiles the work of…
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Play Need For Speed World For Free… and a Little Work
Do you feel the need to speed constantly with a whole bunch of other people? Black Box Studios has kicked off the closed beta test for Need for Speed World, adding thousands of testers over the next few months. Need for Speed World is a persistent-world racing game where you’re always connected to thousands of…
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ModNation Dated, Kratos, Ratchet & Clank, And Nathan Drake Join The Race
Want to know how to get Ratchet & Clank, Kratos, and Nathan Drake figures for ModNation Racers when it hits stores on May 25? It all depends on which retailer you preorder the game from. Don’t you love retailer-exclusive preorder bonuses? Me neither, but Sony seems to enjoy them, so much so that the company…
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The Hunt For Sam Fisher Begins On Facebook
Third Echelon’s best agent has gone rogue, and they’ve turned to Facebook for help tracking down Sam Fisher. Where would you go if you were a top secret government agency trying to track down a traitor? MySpace? Please. Even super spies need social networking. The National Security Administration’s Third Echelon is on the hunt for…
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Building The Ultimate Transformers Origin Story
In this video documentary for Transformers: War for Cybertron, the development team at High Moon Studios talk about bringing the Autobots and Decepticons back to Cybertron to tell a story never fully told. With the team working closely with Hasbro, War for Cybertron is definitely Transformers canon, which is both good and bad news to…
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Frankenreview: Final Fantasy XIII
Come, brave adventurers, and witness the Final Fantasy XIII Frankenreview, a Franken so disparate we decided to run the graph right at the top of the post. As you can plainly see, Final Fantasy XIII isn’t shaping up to be the runaway critical hit that Square Enix was hoping for. Metacritic scores are currently hovering…
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Progress Wars Cures Your Craving For Progress Bars
Are you addicted to leveling up in Facebook games like Mafia Wars and Farmville? Jakob Skjerning cures that craving with Progress Wars – “The ultimate game of being better than all your friends at filling progress bars.” “No mafias, no vikings, no pirates – just pure, uninterrupted progress bars,” that’s one of the witty messages…
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The Nintendo Download: Do You Like Games About Gladiators?
Airplane star Peter Graves may be dead, but our fascination with movies and games about gladiators lives on in this week’s edition of The Nintendo Download. Ghostfire Games’ Rage of the Gladiator might not have started out to a tribute to Peter Graves, but I’m making it such. It’s now a first-person gladiatorial combat game…
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