Study: Buff game characters give males negative body image Filed under: Culture
Hey, it's-a me, Mario. You know, mah life, it's-a not fire flowers and princesses. Sometimes, it can be-a downright depressing. I see that Marcus Fenix walking around with his big muscles and I staht to feel a little sil [..]
ESA goes on offense regarding 'flawed' video game study
The Entertainment Software Association recently issued a press release calling the credibility of an article which will be published in the February issue of Pediatrics (which we're sure you all subscribe to) into question. The article [..]
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Yet Another Violent Video Game Study Releases Findings [Science] Fresh from the "Study finds violent video games do X to kids" pile, we now find ? shock ? playing them results in "a greater variation in Heart Rate Variability." This isn't straight out one's pulse quickening. HRV is "the oscillation in the interval between consecutive heartbeats" [..]
FBI crime study finds video game system theft on the rise
The common criminal is getting smarter, folks. If the results of a recent FBI study on property crimes (published by USA Today) are any indication, professional thieves have learned that yoinking video game consoles is a much more [..]
Study - Violent Video Games Makes Kids More Aggressive [Video Game Violence] It's been a while since we've had a really good "video games make our children violent" study, and I was beginning to fear we've given up on the idea, but then the story "Violent video games linked to child aggression" showed up on CNN.com this morning and my fears were c [..]
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Study: We're All Going To Pay A Lot More For Online Video, One Day Think advertising is the only business model for Web video? Nope. Park Associates insists that US consumers will spend $6 billion on video delivered via the Web by 2013, up from just over a billion this year.
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