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Gaming-Related Psychology Highlights

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The Connection between Coding [Software Programming] and Roleplaying. I’ve been sitting on this one for ten full months for no apparent reason, but I thought the comments and the article were insightful. Seems like a psychological phenomenon worth investigating.
From the thank-you-mom-may-I-have-another department comes, Videogaming Keeps the Brain from Aging. A study of 100 Toronto undergrads shows that gamers outperform their game-ignorant peers in certain mental tests. There was a comparison drawn between results on these tests and the difference between people who were bilingual versus not (results were similar).
Flashback NES. Relive the wonder, the magic, the excellence of the Nintendo Entertainment System. February marked the twentieth anniversary of the venerable gaming platform. Despite the name and the fact that I haven’t been a real gamer since the SNES, I’m looking forward to the Wii.
Stop-Motion Video Gaming. Classic games animated with physical objects (and even food items) in a way that seems uncanny. The good old days, even before the NES!
Tremulous: Free Software Phenomenon. I quit gaming, among other reasons, because I couldn’t afford it. (It was either video games or books and cigars and hardware back in my early college days, so, you know, the choice was fairly obvious.) Tremulous, however, is a free game based on the Quake 3 engine. I might give this a shot if I can ever get my new apartment cleaned up enough to move around freely without shifting papers, boxes, and baskets of clothes.

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Gaming-Related Psychology Highlights

03:52:17 :: [psychology, technology &c.] :: 319 words

The Connection between Coding [Software Programming] and Roleplaying. I’ve been sitting on this one for ten full months for no apparent reason, but I thought the comments and the article were insightful. Seems like a psychological phenomenon worth investigating.
From the thank-you-mom-may-I-have-another department comes, Videogaming Keeps the Brain from Aging. A study of 100 Toronto undergrads shows that gamers outperform their game-ignorant peers in certain mental tests. There was a comparison drawn between results on these tests and the difference between people who were bilingual versus not (results were similar).
Flashback NES. Relive the wonder, the magic, the excellence of the Nintendo Entertainment System. February marked the twentieth anniversary of the venerable gaming platform. Despite the name and the fact that I haven’t been a real gamer since the SNES, I’m looking forward to the Wii.
Stop-Motion Video Gaming. Classic games animated with physical objects (and even food items) in a way that seems uncanny. The good old days, even before the NES!
Tremulous: Free Software Phenomenon. I quit gaming, among other reasons, because I couldn’t afford it. (It was either video games or books and cigars and hardware back in my early college days, so, you know, the choice was fairly obvious.) Tremulous, however, is a free game based on the Quake 3 engine. I might give this a shot if I can ever get my new apartment cleaned up enough to move around freely without shifting papers, boxes, and baskets of clothes.

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