Video Games Improve Adult 'Lazy Eye'

Video Games Improve Adult 'Lazy Eye,' Study Suggests LiveScience.com ... 40 hours of playing video games. "I was very surprised by this finding — I didn't expect to see this type of improvement," said researcher Roger Li, an optometrist at the University of California, Berkeley, who admitted he was a gamer himself. ...

GeekDad Presents: Family Gamer TV Wired News Here's how it came to be: Family Gamer TV (FGTV) has been a GeekDad project I've been working towards for over a year. Writing and speaking about family gaming means I'm often asked questions about video games that are very specific to family gamers. ...

Video games get classical concert BBC News By Dan Whitworth Music featured in video games ranging from Angry Birds to Mario Bros is set to feature in a classical concert. The London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) is playing more than 20 songs as part of a music festival in the city. ...

Video Games: Full List Of Achievements For Batman: Arkham City On Xbox 360 Comic Book Movie The list of achievements for Batman: Arkham City has found its way online for the Xbox 360 while it doesn't reveal much be warned it contains some mild SPOILERS. Batman: Arkham City will be released later next month, and with anticipation of the game ...

Ask the Principal: Video games, other tech products a big time waste for students Naples Daily News What impact do you think video games and other forms of electronics have on our children? Video games, TV, cell phones and other electronic devices are stealing valuable time from those children who use these devices excessively, compulsively, ...

August video games highlights New Game Network August (particularly the end) is the equivalent of a man starving himself before a large buffet, making sure his stomach is as barren as possible before gorging himself on various foodstuffs. It is at the end of August when the industry starts to pick ...

Bodycount review Telegraph.co.uk By Tom Hoggins, Video Games Editor Here's the best thing about Codemasters' FPS Bodycount: instant restarts. Should you be the unfortunate recipient of a minigun volley to the kneecaps, your character will have barely hit the ground before you've ...

History's first billion-point video gamer aims to regain crown this weekend Examiner.com Now, decades later, McVey still plays video games, from the classics in the era that gained him his moments of fame to modern day hits for the XBox 360. Recently, fellow gaming champion Rick Carter toppled McVey's score during an arcade event in New ...

The Gamer's Corner: “El Shaddai” New University Online “El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron” is a fantastic journey from beginning to end. Its unique, constantly changing abstract art style continuously encourages you to progress ever forward. While the stunning visuals' impact on the mood and story is ...

Let's Go Shopping For Video Games! (In the 1980's and 1990's) Kotaku Total Recall is a look back at the history of video games through their characters, franchises, developers and trends. You can contact Luke Plunkett, the author of this post, atplunkett@kotaku.com. You can also find him on Twitter, Facebook, ...

VIDEO GAMES: Awesome Cover Art For X-Men Destiny Unveiled! Comic Book Movie While the game itself looks somewhat underwhelming, the cover art for the upcoming X-Men Destiny has been revealed, and it features both the new playable characters alongside some classic (redesigned) mutants... "X-Men Destiny" allows gamers to control ...

Frogger Celebrates 30th Birthday on iPhone Investorplace.com Video games have especially exploited audience nostalgia. Nintendo's New Super Mario Bros. Wii, a game released in 2009 but modeled after a game made in 1985, has sold more than 22 million copies. While classic brands have sold decently on mobile ...

Ultimate Madden NFL 12 Battle Complex.com (blog) The champion will take home a blinged-out Gabe Urist-designed "Superbowl"-esque ring and, of course, the priceless gamer bragging rights. We've got Levi Maestro on hand to document all the highlights of this battle so you can get a recap video posted ...

WWE '12 Preview Videogamer.com If you're the kind of gamer who spends hours tweaking your spandex-clad wunderkind (and there are a lot of you out there, I know) you'll also be pleased to learn that WWE 12 lets you design your own arenas as well. You can edit everything from the ...

Police Chief Used Department's Only Computer for Video Games Kotaku ... refusing to attend crime scenes and "having his staff run his personal errands", the first offence listed on the local Daily Commercial's report of his suspension is that he "hogged the department's only computer to play online video games". ...

Modern Warfare 3 Multiplayer Trailer Tells A Story GamerFront It really does a good job of telling the story. It seems to lean toward cinematic and not gameplay footage. Whether you play COD or not im pretty sure you can relate to this video (providing you an online gamer). Ienjoyed it, I hope you do too.

An update to the milking claims agains Street Fighter Lazygamer Capcom® Entertainment, Inc., a leading worldwide developer and publisher of video games, and Sanrio, Inc., creator of beloved icon Hello Kitty®, today announced a partnership to create a new line of co-branded Street Fighter™ themed merchandise that ...

Japanese developers must look to the West, says Swery Videogamer.com "For people who are young and coming into the games industry in Japan, it's going to be important for them to not be totally focused on Japanese video games. They're going to need to have influences from [Western] movies, stories and TV series. ...

Competition, not violence, spurs aggression, study finds Montreal Gazette By Derek Abma, Postmedia News September 2, 2011 12:34 PM A study published on the website of the journal Psychology of Violence showed participants in experiments, who were asked to playvideo games, became more aggressive based on how competitive a ...

Enough is Enough: The Nintendo 3DS Doesn't Suck. Aussie-Gamer.com Now if that doesn't get you excited, as a gamer, then again – you should re-think your hobby. And I think this is where the problem seems to be lying. These “game journalists” are trying to cement their ego by commenting on issues that financial ...

Jetpack Joyride Australian Gamer Halfbrick are well known to Australian Gamer. Phil, now Halfbrick's CMO, once held a more exalted position as an Australian Gamer writer. Back when spelling was a requirement. Anyway, we like Halfbrick, but not because of that. ...

Brandon resident who persevered wins prestigious scholarship Tbo.com This 2007 Brandon High School graduate has coped with learning disabilities and an immune deficiency disorder as he pursued his dream of developing educational video games. He was recently awarded a Randy Pausch Scholarship by the Academy of ...

Parents' video-game distraction a growing trend in deaths ArmyTimes.com By Andrew Tilghman - Staff writer Military child advocates are seeing signs of a disturbing new trend: parents so involved in video games and other forms of electronic entertainment that they forget to be parents. • In June, Rebecca Christie, ...

Price Battle: Single Player Games VS. Multiplayer Games (opinion) Metrowny.com There are quite a few new video games that have come out in recent weeks that I want, but I'm not willing to pay the current price. What I'm struggling with is the fact that some of these games are single-player-only, and therefore limited in replay ...

iPhone gaming podcast - Episode 140: Something we call the pod-chester Pocket Gamer by Jon Jordan So while our leader is sunning himself in sunny Cambridge, the Pocket Gamerpodcast gains some northern grit - and background noise - in the back of a Manchester pub. Podcast regulars Jon and Keith are joined by Pocket Gamer's 3DS - and ...

Video Games: Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City Game Play Preview ShockTillYouDrop.com This is the most I've seen from Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City and....damn. This looks good. The Capcom game takes you back to Raccoon City during the zombie outbreak to clean things up. It's easier said than done, naturally. ...

College players denied 'monopoly' money The Republic College athletes are not allowed to endorse products, can't get paid for speaking engagements and can't receive any compensation from schools that are making money off their images in video games and jersey sales. If they want to transfer schools, ...

Weekend Game Hunting: Labor Day edition USA Today It means we're one step closer to fall, football and very good video games. There's a lot on my plate, so this is the perfect time for a three-day weekend. Before moving on, don't forget to check out the always delightful Game Hunters forum. ...

First 300 to Buy Shadows of the Damned CD Get Autograph GotGame News Video games and music. Music and video games. Both go hand in hand and compliment one another. We all have our favorite music from video games and know, and possibly love, the composers who make said music. I myself tend to like the Final Fantasy ...

Is this sequence from Deus Ex racist? Lazygamer So when people claim they are seeing racism in video games I'm always very interested in seeing if it's possibly true. I doubt that there are many developers out there who would put racism into a game on purpose but there is a lot of latent racism that ...

PAX Prime Day 1: Six Awesome Games (And Accessories) We Saw Complex.com (blog) By Alex Rubens, | Sep 2, 2011 | 12:04 pm | Permalink We flew out to Seattle last weekend to check out some games, accessories, and cosplayers at PAX Prime - the convention that doubles as a gamer's haven. We saw some fantastic costumes, but also some ...

Driver Renegade 3D Pocket Gamer ... usually piling on the swear words for good measure. We're not exactly dainty when it comes to profanity here at Pocket Gamer, but Renegade goes completely over the top, with Tanner bellowing the most ridiculous lines at the silliest moments.

Happening Friday Los Angeles Times Call of Duty XP For this celebration of the military-themed Call of Duty video game franchise, a nondescript hangar has been transformed into a gamer's paradise, complete with previews of Modern Warfare 3, a $1-million tournament, live paintball in a ...

GAME BYTES: Season for video games, football Tuscaloosa News (subscription) If you're a PC gamer, you'd be forgiven for thinking AAA season takes a week to catch its breath after that, but no such luck, really. The week of Sept. 13 sees the release of two anticipated PC shooters, “Hard Reset” and “Red Orchestra 2. ...

Sega producer Takashi Iizuka talks Sonic Generations and what the future holds ... Pocket Gamer Pocket Gamer sat down with the Sega legend and asked the questions that are on everyone's minds. How did you choose the levels to bring back from old Sonic games for Sonic Generations? Everyone on the team has their own personal opinions about which ...

In-Game Ads May Backfire In Violent Games, Says Study Gamasutra by Frank Cifaldi [Console/PC, Business, Marketing] Advertisements in violent video games may cause players to view those brands negatively, according to a new study. New research out of UT Austin's College of Communications shows that a majority of...

The Weekly Gamer 9.2.2011 | GUY.com By Stewart Smith The Weekly Gamer 9.2.2011. 0 ... Remember when Virtual Reality was pushed as the future of video games and it required everyone to wear those stupid, clunky headsets just so you could look at horribly rendered and block 3D graphics? ... GUY.com