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Study: Violence and gore don't make games more enjoyable  Filed under: Culture
Put down that blood-soaked cleaver. After quizzing 2,670 "frequent" gamers and conducting four different experiments with more than 300 university undergraduates, researchers at University of Rochester discove [..] |
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Study Determines Violence Has No Effect on Games' Appeal [Studies] ![Click here to read Is There Another Star Wars MMO On The Horizon? - Is There Another Star Wars MMO On The Horizon? [Rumor]](http://cache-10.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/03/160x120_clonewars.jpg) Researchers modified Half-Life 2 to study whether violence makes a game more enjoyable for players. The short answer: It does not. In the study, published Friday in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, researchers surveyed more than 2,500 "frequent game pl [..] |
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| Fallout 3 Fights Violence With Violence [Bethesda] As a series, Fallout has always celebrated a dark, often humorous world punctuated by brief moments of brutality. But how do you find the balance when the series enters a 3D world? Bethesda's Peter Hines explains:We don't want [violence] to be t [..] |
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| Al Gore Al Gore just took the stage at Netroots Nation to talk about climate change.
Awesome!
Update: In an aside to the moderator, Pelosi whispered (thinking her mike was off) "It's really exciting that he's here."
Update: http://wecansolveit.org/ Read the comments on this post... [..] |
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Why Does Al Gore Hate The Press?  Al Gore is speaking at the RSA security conference in San Francisco this afternoon. But good luck finding out what he says: Reporters are banned from the event.
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Al Gore's Current TV Cancels Its IPO  The only real surprise here is that it's taken this long. Al Gore's TV network, Current TV, has withdrawn its $100 million IPO. The network is siting "current market conditions."
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| How to Make a Presentation Like Al Gore Al Gore’s dramatic slide show featured in “An Inconvenient Truth” was awesome enough to win him the Nobel Peace Prize and an Oscar. Let’s see if you can do any better. Nancy Duarte of Duarte Design, the firm behind Gore’s presentation, shares her secrets to creating killer slide shows.
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Gore Pushing .Eco Domain Group  Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection is getting behind the movement to set up “.eco” as a new web domain. The New York Post reports that Gore, &ldqu [..] |
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Last week Al Gore banned the press from attending his speech at the RSA conference in San Francisco, which is a bit puzzling but not the first time Al's made that kind of request.
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