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Action video games 'improve' eyesight
Jerusalem :: Israel | 8 months ago
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Contrast sensitivity, the ability to notice subtle changes of light and dark against a uniform background, is important in situations such as driving at night. It is, meanwhile, one of the first aspects of vision affected by ageing. Impaired contrast...
Tags: video games, contrast sensitivity, action video, action games, games improved, improved vision, University of Rochester
Daily Herald, Chicago: Your health
Chicago :: IL :: USA | 8 months ago
Credibility 12 AM Told you, Mom You might not want your tween or teen to read this: Using cell phones and playing video games may not be as harmful to children's academic performance as we thought. All that chatting and texting on their cell phones had no effect...
Tags: video games, cell phones
New York Times: The economics of snooping on Internet traffic
London :: United Kingdom | 8 months ago
Credibility And it can help Internet providers degrade the service of rival offerings, such as voice calling or video over the Internet. Tim Berners-Lee, one of the creators of the World Wide Web, recently said in a speech to the British House of Lords that deep...
Tags: video games
SPD arrests Texas fugitive; charges relate to child porn
Humble :: TX :: USA | 8 months ago
Credibility A Pulaski County man is set to be extradited to Texas to face child sex offenses after he allegedly convinced a young girl to send him nude pictures of herself while playing online video games. Anthony Oshea, 24, of Somerset was arrested Thursday evening...
Tags: Somerset Police Depar-tment, Houston Chronicle, Texas, video games
The deadly call of duty
Roy :: UT :: USA | 8 months ago
Credibility March 6, 2009 at 12:00 AM EST In the ever-expanding universe of video games, the big bucks are in blood and guts. Some kids get hooked on Guitar Hero , but the vast majority of gamers today spend more money and time on shockingly graphic search-and-destroy...
Tags: video games
Study reveals parents' changing attitudes towards gaming
London :: United Kingdom | 8 months ago
Credibility According to a new study by Xbox 360 manufacturers Microsoft, 61 per cent of parents consider video games a "great social experience". The results of the second annual "Play Smart, Play Safe" survey, which monitors parents and children's attitudes towards...
Tags: video games
Lesbian banned from XBox Live
Apparently, an XBox Live user identified as "Teresa" is permanently banned from the gaming system because of her sexuality. Teresa referred to herself as a lesbian on her profile page and apparently received such harassment and reviews from other users...
Tags: lesibian, sexuality, XBox, XBox Live, Microsoft, banned, gaming, video games
Study: Internet Addiction May Fuel Teen Aggression
Taipei :: Taiwan | 9 months ago
Credibility Teenagers who are preoccupied with their Internet time may be more prone to aggressive behavior, researchers reported Monday. In a study of more than 9,400 Taiwanese teenagers, the researchers found that those with signs of Internet "addiction" were...
Tags: addiction, video games, sex
Popular video game causing real addiction?
Well I knew I had something when I started my research on Google by simply typing in "World of Warcraft addiction" and seeing an estimated 1,300,000 results. Sorting through even just the first few hits I found everything from guides to break the...
Tags: video games, addiction, world of warcraft, popular
Frugal families go gaming
Sydney :: Australia | 10 months ago
Credibility Buzz have helped expand video game sales to double the size of the movie box office and more than 40 per cent larger than the movie disc industry in Australia. _____________________ Vote, lower right: Support your fravourite console _____________________...
Tags: technology, video games, games, Technology Australia
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