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Playing computer games = insurance breaks?

  A new pilot program by AllState Insurance is checking to see if there is a correlation between playing computer games and lack of car accidents.  The study will see drivers aged 50-75 play specially designed games with the thesis that age-related cognitive decline can be reversed, and driving improved.  Read more…

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Posted By: rebecca | Oct 2nd

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U.S. Spies Use Custom Videogames to Learn How to Think

 A terrorist watches over a hostage in the DIA’s Sudden Thrust game. No, you don’t get to shoot him.
Courtesy Visual Purple LLC
 In the wake of the intelligence bungles that propelled the United States into the Iraq war, it’s no secret that the nation’s spies have been working to improve the quality of their analysis. Now […]

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Posted By: ashley | Apr 24th

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New Groundbreaking Destination Website for Video Gamers

GIG HARBOR, WA — (MARKET WIRE) — March 21, 2007 — Gottaplay Interactive, Inc. today announced the relaunch of its highly anticipated revolutionary website (www.gottaplay.com). Now, when members visit Gottaplay.com, they will be able to rent, buy, and trade videogames at one online destination. In launching the […]

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Posted By: littlec | Mar 21st

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Are Video Games the Next Frontier in Education?

 
 
 
 
 
If the Federation of American Scientists made a list of educational videogames, you might expect to find Oregon Trail, the story of Conestoga wagons trekking into the American West, or the geography favorite Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? And don’t forget Half-Life 2. That’s the one where you burn alien zombies to death […]

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Posted By: froosh | Oct 20th

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Video games can help cut surgical errors: study

Not really surprising.  I see a future where a lot of training will be done in a virtual environment facilitated by video game technology.
Soldiers these days have had years of practice by playing violent video games, athletes admit to getting an edge by playing games too, as did Johan Santana of the Minnesota Twins.
Over the […]

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Posted By: froosh | May 24th

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