Study Confirms People Love To Play Pokémon Go While Driving
People do all kinds of absurd stuff while driving, including but not limited to: eating, texting, reading books and…
The Most Popular Current-Gen Game Console, According To Facebook
While sales numbers are the tried and true method of calculating the most successful video game console in a…
Study Suggests iPad Gaming Makes People Feel Like Throwing Up
Researchers at the University of Minnesota say they've found a link between motion sickness and iPad gaming. The fact…
Texting While Driving Can Get You Seriously Hurt (In Mario Kart)
By now we should all be on board with the idea that texting while driving is a particularly dangerous and irresponsible…
China's Internet Cafes Are Disappearing. What's Going On?!
China, the middle kingdom. The Orient. The place where the legality of game consoles are suspect has always been the…
Gamers More Numb to Pain, Others' Misery, Say Scientists
I'm not sure what to make of this study, by researchers in Germany and Australia. On a literal level, RPG gamers are…
Local TV: Sexy Game Characters 'Worse Than Watching Miley Cyrus Twerk'
This local news report has all of the ingredients: Sex, teenage girls, the exploitation of them, video games, and a…
Who Are the 'Whales' Driving Free-to-Play Gaming? You'd Be Surprised
Few words in the video games industry are as cynical as "whale," taken from a Las Vegas term for a high stakes gambler.…
Study: Scientists Are Running Out Of Ways To Study Violent Games
Researchers at the University of Queensland in Australia gathered 64 students together and had them each play either a…
Chinese Health Study: Video Games Making Children Dumb
China has released various studies in the past about the adverse effects of video games on the development of young…
What Kind of Person Plays a Sports Video Game? MIT Has the Answers.
More than a year ago, Abe Stein of the Game Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology reached out to me about a…
Warcraft-Playing Ph.D Candidate has Some Questions for You About Gaming Addiction
An East Carolina University doctoral student studying MMOs and video game addiction is looking for survey participants…
Video Game Experiment Teaches Angry Kids Not to Rage Against the Machine
There's a new insane study of children and video games out there, and it makes me grateful the Wii died without that rid…
Two Years Later, Sleep Researchers Now Say Gaming Before Bed Is Bad
Two years ago, sleep researchers at Flinders University of Australia found that playing video games before bed was…
Violent Video Games Increase Pain Tolerance? Okay, Hit Me.
Researchers at Keele University in England decided it would be neat if they had 40 volunteers play either a violent or…
Study, China Says Minors Are Learning About Sex From Video Games
Earlier this month on Children's Day, the China Youth Internet Association in conjunction with the Communication…
There's More Cussin' in Teen Novels than Video Games, Swears Researcher
You might not expect a study coming out of Brigham Young University's School of Family Life to have anything good to…
Study: Video Games Keep Out The Nightmares
The Wall Street Journal has news of yet another gaming study, but this one's pretty darn interesting: Rather than judge…
Is There Such a Thing As Killing for the Greater Good?
Could you kill one person to save five?
The Problem With Pathological Gaming Studies
Is gaming addiction a real psychological affliction that should be recognized by the American Psychiatric Association?…