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Just spotted a report mentioned on Yahoo! stating that video games may be good for the brain.
The idea that video games exercise your brain is, I would have thought, obvious but it’s nice to see there is research that confirms my thoughts.
Despite claiming to be an avid gamer there was also this quote from the researcher…
He suggested that somewhere down the road, video games might be tailored to help the elderly keep their minds sharp.
Which seems a little strange considering the massive amount of publicity the Brain Training games have garnered in recent months.
Anyway - I mustn’t complain - I’m just happy that something positive is being said about games, as opposed to the ridiculous news that video games are now being blamed for how people drive! FWIW The suggestion that 15 is too young to drive is something I would look at changing first, personally …
Elebits is a new game for the Nintendo Wii and until I saw the following video I wasn’t overly interested in it.
It rather reminds me of the Half Life 2 physics demo that was set up all that time ago, albeit on a smaller scale.
I am a Nintendo fan boy, but even those who aren’t must have noticed how well Nintendo has been doing recently. They can’t seem to put a foot wrong. Sony, on the other hand, just keep messing up.
Jason Thompson (Midwestern geek) has put together a list of the top 10 lies Sony have told relating to the PS3. This isn’t a fan boy thing either, all the lies are sourced so you can see them for yourself.
Big Fish Games is a games portal, they sell downloadable video games in fact they’re not dissimilar to Binary Sun - another very nice games website 
Anyway Big Fish have now announced the ability to set up your own games site which I have done (as if I need ANOTHER site to run). You can choose your favourite games from their catalogue and promote them on your own games page. In return for doing this you get 2 free games and, some would say more importantly, you get commision for every sale that is generated via your mini portal.
I wouldn’t give up your day job just yet, you’re unlikely to make a living from this, but it’s an interesting way to market games. Basically making others (erm… you and I) do the work for them. The thing is - it works! Look at me, …
Was pointed towards Aram Bartholl recently. I studied art at both school and university and never really took to the modern variety. There was some cool stuff being done but in general it didn’t interest me. However when it’s coupled with video games modern art becomes the best thing ever…
- Speed - Bringing Need for Speed into the real world
- First Person Shooter
- de_dust - I like the subtlety of this one. Most people wouldn’t understand but those that know would love it (at least I do)
- Wow - I can think of a few times when this would have been handy to have
A lot of …
Sony have tried it a couple of times with the Net Yaroze on the original PlayStation and then the Linux dev kit on the PS2 but nether really picked up the way you would imagine.
The idea of going back to gamings routes, with people copying endless reams of code from magazines, not understanding what it means and praying that they will get some sort of enjoyable game out at the end, is enticing.
Microsoft have decided it’s their turn giving smaller indiependant developers the oppurtunity to share their creations (with the possibility of being picked up for XBLA?).
In my opinion one of the reasons the Net Yaroze was a failure was that there was no way to distribute your creation. There is little point creating a game if nobody can play it but now, with broadband and the high uptake in Xbox Live …
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