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Science EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag Britain gets its first game addiction clinic 21 Where there is a trendy new affliction, there is an expert with the answer. Thus it is that Britain is now host to its very first "game addiction" clinic in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. Broadway ... Videogames: They cripple your kids now 47 It's time yet again for another scientific study that may or may not prove videogames are detrimental to your health! The mainstream media is lapping up a brand new report that suggests videogame... Survey says: Tetris is good for your BRAIN! 13 That guy up there, he was probably made smarter by playing Tetris. Don't you know, it creates geniuses? At least, that's what recent research from the Mind Research Network (also, is that name ma... Participate in the New Gaymer Survey 39 Like videogames? Love sexual identity? Then you'll simply adore the "New Gaymer Survey," a study by Paul Nowak who aims to continue the work of the original "Gay Gamer" survey... Tokyo Game Show mack-daddy masterclass 15 You have probably heard that Tokyo Game Show was a bit disappointing this year; that the number of attendees was down, there were no big announcements, and some companies were missing from the fl... 73% of Brits are gamers 28 Big numbers have come from a 2009 National Gamers Survey that show just how popular videogames have become in Blighty. The study reveals that 73% of the British public regularly game, with the me... 41% of gamers rely on word-of-mouth for information 39 An interesting new study by The NPD Group suggests that a significant number of gamers rely on word of mouth to obtain game information and make purchasing decisions, with 41% of those surveyed ... Kick your World of Warcraft habit for just $14,000! 41 Where there are World of Warcraft players, there are people with dollar signs in their eyes lining up to take advantage. Cue Washington State's ReSTART clinic, a rehab center that aims to help Wo... Study: Violent videogame ads the most memorable 36 Another day, another study about violence in videogames. The latest research comes courtesy of the University of Luxemburg, where it has been decided by Professor Obvious that violent videogame c... Wii Remotes help you feel holograms 29 Holograms have always disappointed me. This is mostly because they're nothing like what they are in science fiction. Where's the hologram that can go horribly wrong and trap me in gangster era Am... Half-Life with real guns should not be tried at home 23 The guys (and one attractive girl) at Waterloo Labs like showing people how to do cool science-based projects on the cheap. For instance, if you have a large wall you can shoot, something to shoo... Too much gaming time may raise kids' blood pressure 39 Lots of things can raise your blood pressure -- traffic jams, stressful days at work, pictures of mostly naked girls writhing on a bed of cherries. Apparently the latest in this list is videogame... Therapists join World of Warcraft in the name of science 30 MMO addiction is a hot topic these days, and there are plenty of "experts" out there who want to "help." British Psychiatrist Dr. Richard Graham is among these brave few heroe... Girls: why they game less 59 Girls. They have stumped men for ages with their ways. The biggest mystery of all? Why they don't play games as much as men. A recent study from Michigan State University has discovered the concl... Professor trolls City of Heroes in the name of science 54 Usually, people who troll online games are fourteen-year-old, curly haired little douchebags with no aim in life other than to make people miserable. At least Loyola University media professor Da... Breaking! Bayer announces glucose meter for the DS 11 You heard me. This is big. Whip out your Twitter-enabled phones and start typing, folks. The next high-tech peripheral to come to your Nintendo DS is a GLUCOSE METER.Seriously though, it's coming... The doctor is in, and he'll stop your kids playing Xbox 61 The world of lazy parenting has gotten a shot in the arm with the launch of the GameDr, a brand new invention that will revolutionize the way that children are half-heartedly disciplined by adult... Videogame biz 'in denial' over game addiction, allegedly 59 Australia's largest daily paper, the Herald-Sun, has written a charmingly alarming piece that accuses the games industry of being "in denial" over the very real and very serious threat ... Because seeing the inside of stuff is cool 18 Have you ever wondered what airport security sees when you're traveling some place with every console you own? I do that all the time and have wondered it often. Sadly, peaking around is strictly... Singularity trailers show how to turn enemies into skeletons 17 In all honesty, I have paid zero attention to Raven Software's first-person shooter with a twist, Singularity, before today. But that all changed when Activision sent over two new trailers for th... Pac-Man enzyme hoping to gobble up Alzheimer's 11 As someone who values their brain, I am terrified of Alzheimer's disease. However, I'll be sleeping easier at night from now on, knowing that Pac-Man is on the case. A new enzyme is being develop... 3 million kids are 'pathological gamers' ... apparently 20 It's been a while since children were used to make videogames sound terrifying, but luckily the State University of Iowa has delivered, with a study making the claim that 8.5% of American childre... Everything is turning into the Wii 25 Wii fever is (fortunately or unfortunately, depending on who you are) still gripping America with its motion-controlled simplicity. So much so, in fact, that TVs and PCs set to debut next year ar... More things to do with your Wiimote: control a lawnmower 21 The Wiimote has been used for many a purpose other than what it was intended for, which is pretty cool in the general scheme of things. The latest use has been found by researchers at the Univers... Videogames blamed for doing good 49 Videogames get blamed for a lot of stuff: murders, drunk driving, foul language, the downfall of Western civilization. However, this is the final straw. Games are now being blamed for doing good.... New games are better than sex, claim two thirds of men 55 According to a recent poll, two thirds of men would rather play new videogames than stick their filthsticks inside a lady's weeping wormhole. 31% of the 1,130 men applied this rule to games in ge... Forget shooting games, it's the driving ones that'll get you 15 There's still all of this silly talk about shooting games and how they make gamers aggressive and violent. I don't see it. In fact, shooters make me sad because I'm so bad at them. Now driving ga... Stuck in a wall? New, more efficient collision algorithms should help 15 Games look great these days, but something that could use a bit of sprucing up is collision detection. Even today we still see a missed hit, or the rare arm through the wall. Despite all the othe... Shocker: Kids love violent videogames, want M-rated titles 13 A rather redundant study has shown that young people love adult-oriented videogames, with M-rated titles proving popular among filthy youths. Apparently, we needed research to conclude that peopl... Videogame consoles now cause skin sores: Their list of crimes grows! 24 Just when you think that videogames couldn't be blamed for anything else, along come those famous experts to identity a skin condition caused by gaming. "PlayStation palmar hidradenitis"... Silly study: Violent games make you 'comfortably numb' to the pain of others 42 It never ceases to amaze me just how far some "researchers" will go to "prove" that videogames are harmful. From blowing airhorns to electric shock tests, some truly wacky and... Videogames are stressful things, claims new study 24 According to a new British-backed Taiwanese study, videogames can be a contributing factor in rising stress levels and anxiety in young people. So, not only are they solely responsible for school... Study sees possible link between racing games and automobile purchases 9 Motor Authority is reporting on an experiment performed at Carleton University in Canada. In an effort to discern the influence of interactivity on buying decisions, a group of subjects was given... PlayStation 3 good for media server, Killzone 2, black hole vibration research 17 Today, I plan on purchasing and playing Savage Moon, a tower defense game featuring aliens and bugs, on my PlayStation 3. Then maybe I'll use it to finish watching season three of Entourage. If I... DS brain training games equal 'charlatanism' according to researcher 11 People will buy anything if they feel it can help them improve with minimal effort, it's simply part of human nature to want the most results from the least amount of work. Thus it is that Brain ... Study: Everything about videogames is bad 49 A new study fresh out of Utah is claiming that there are no positive side effects of videogames whatsoever, and that even non-violent gaming has a negative impact on your life. That's right, ever... Videogame characters can harm self-esteem 65 Have you ever played Metal Gear Solid 4 and found yourself envying Snake's ancient but oh-so firm and inviting asscheeks? Perhaps you can't play a round of Gears of War 2 without feeling intimida... Males play games for the thrill of conquest, science says so 13 I seriously wonder who it is that actually pays for these so-called studies. A highly useful piece of research has shown that men are particularly drawn to videogames because they are internally ... Study: Bisexuals love 'em some MMOs 15 A recent gender study of MMO players has produced some strange results. University of Delaware Prof. Scott Caplan has been working with Sony to study Everquest II players, where he found that 40%... Soccer AI getting 'smarter'; David Beckham becomes even less relevant 20 If you like sports, or physics, watch the video. Just, dear God, mute it first. I've been playing soccer -- both real and virtual --  for probably more than a decade now, and I've never sc... Strangest use for the Wiimote: programming robots? 10 We know that the Wiimote sometimes gets used for things other than waggle -- hell, it's even been helpful to the disabled. Its newest foray outside the world of games has to do with a research pr... Study: First-person shooter cutscenes aren't engaging enough 33 With the ungodly amount of first-person shooters on the market these days, chances are high you've played at least one during this generation of games.For the most part, the shooter genre is not ... Blitz working on 'true 3D games.' Yes, just like Freddy's Dead! 17 Blitz Games Studios has been showing off some in-house technology that can make stereoscopic 3D gaming a reality on the PS3 and 360. Thanks to the tech, game consoles have the ability to replicat... Shocker: Most gaming 'addiction' is bollocks 30 Keith Bakker of the Smith & Jones Center in Amsterdam has been studying videogame addiction for a while now -- rather useful, considering the Center's purpose is to treat it. After profession... We can rebuild him, we have the technology: Guitar Hero 12 DARPA is sponsoring a massive project with the goal of developing a prosthetic limb which closely mimics an actual, human one. In a demonstration last Friday, at the IEEE Biomedical Circuits and ... Report: If you turn your console off, you will save energy ... wait, really? 37 In shockingly shocking news, a report has been published which suggests that if you turn your console off after using it, you will actually save energy. Yes, it sounds thoroughly crazy, but these... Garriot comes back from space and quits NCSoft to pursue 'new interests' 18 Ever come back from the Earth’s orbit and realize that you need to quit your job and take a new direction in your life? That’s exactly the conclusion NCSoft’s Richard Garriot ca... PSP-3000 screen issues uncovered, not fixable 10 Along with everyone else, we had beef with the new PSP's screen. The 3000 model has scanline and interlacing issues that Sony called "hardware features," but then didn't say much else. ... Prof gets $100,000 to play World of Warcraft 22 America is in recession, but that doesn't stop some people from throwing public money around like it was made of leaves and snow. Prof. Bonnie Nardi of the University of California Irvine has bee... Captain Obvious: Racial bias exists in virtual worlds 18 Considering you can't move on Xbox Live for rednecks telling you that you're a fornicating Nigerian, it's pretty obvious that racial ... differences ... exist online just as much as it does in th... The Getaway proves our brains have sat-nav? 12 Here's one for the science fans. Some researchers believe that our brains contain navigation systems full of grids, compasses and maps, similar to a satellite navigation system. Quite why they ar... Crowbar finally shipped to prevent humanity's destruction 53 A month ago we posted a story about Reddit offering to send a crowbar to the brains behind the Large Hadron Collider project. Many fear that the particle accelerator at Cern could cause the end o... Lord British is taking Stephen Colbert's DNA into space 25 Game designing nutcase Richard "Lord British" Garriott will be taking the DNA of satirical reporter Stephen Colbert into space. The Ultima creator is due to visit the International Spac... More Aliens: Colonial Marines details to drool over 31 In an interview with CVG, Aliens: Colonial Marines producer Mike Gallo has let some new details spring forth like a freshly born facehugger. Colonial Marines will be slotted neatly into the movie... Psychological study suggests link between gory games and aggression 39 I have a request for the scientific community at large, though really this is for any of their ilk that want to do a study on games. Before one of your noble community decides to shed light on th... Mastiff and Renegade Kid unveil Moon for the Nintendo DS 22 Publisher Mastiff and Dementium: The Ward developer Renegade Kid have finally pulled the covers off of the mysterious "Project M" that was announced last year. Entitled Moon, the sci-fi... PlayStation 3 Gravity Grid: 16 PS3s simulate black hole collisions 36 The PlayStation 3's Cell processor must really be something. The US government wants to use them, they're powering cutting-edge medical research, and now they're being used to simulate black hol... The US Air Force picks up 300 PS3s 31 Off they go, into the wild blue yonder... apparently for "research." Riiiiiiiight, research.  The gamer in me want to think that they're setting up for the First Annual Armed Forc... Kill me now, please: how dying in FPS games feels good 52 A recent study in the journal Emotion gives the results of a test that tracked the emotions of gamers playing a first-person shooter. What's surprising is that the tested gamers seem to have thei... Amsterdam builds their own Rapture? 44 The massive underwater city of Rapture may have began in the imaginations of BioShock's developers 2K, but a similar city could become a reality in the Dutch capital of Amsterdam. World Architect... « NEXT « next - expanded blog view		Save cash!   See "Black Friday" video game deals New on Destructoid.TV play all videos Loading Destructoid Videos Win this! Dive in! meetup+play for a chance to win a PC Dtoid Twitter    Got news?   tips@destructoid.com Reviews & Previews Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles review Left 4 Dead 2 review Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Reflex review Arkedo Series - 02 SWAP! review EyePet review more reviews Online Lessons 101 Monster Slaying in Monster Hunter Tri Hooking onto, under and above Just Cause 2 PS3's 256-player MAG Rooms The Main Building Skate 3 more previews - The Dtoid Army is 50642 strong - Showing Cblogs with 3+ faps   show all Call for entries: do the wrong thing New to Dtoid? 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