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Charlie Booker takes a look at those “blockbuster” video games:
In other words, Modern Warfare 3 would be nothing but a gigantic needlework simulation were it not for the storyline, which is the most homoerotic tale ever created in any medium, including Frankie Goes to Hollywood videos. Behind the military manoeuvrings, the human story revolves around people backstabbing, bitching, making catty asides, breaking off friendships and betraying one another. Ignore the gunfire and it’s like a soap opera set in a ballet school.
I’ll stick with Pysol and Tetris clones.
Addendum, the Next Day:
Brain gamed:
For teenagers, parents, and clinicians to make sense of this finding, we need research monitoring brain structure over time”
Dr Simone Kuhn, one of the researchers from Ghent University in Belgium, said the region is “usually activated when people anticipate positive environmental effects or experience pleasure such as winning money, good food, sex”.
The region has been implicated in drug addiction.
The authors said it “cannot be determined” whether this was a “consequence” of gaming or if naturally larger regions led to a “vulnerability for preoccupation with gaming”.
