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Some Gamers Hallucinate Game Sounds After Playing

A new study from researchers at Nottingham Trent University observed that playing games for long sessions of time may have some interesting side effects, like causing auditory hallucinations from the games you’ve played.

How Games can Help Imagination

Many parents worry about the amount of games their children play as they grow older. They think that they should be outside getting exercise or studying more.

The Lemon Juice Syndrome and the Hunger Games

Americans who, under the rubric of conservatism, oppose nutrition assistance to children also tend to deny the looming devastation of global climate change, the human costs of an inept healthcare system, the negative consequences of a constricted view of consciousness, and the dangerous costs of denying biological evolution. This is very troubling.

MoMa for Mario: Video Games Are Art Too

A new Tumblr called ‘Video Game Art Archive’ is curating pixel art paintings that adorn the walls of video games.

What Videogames Need

There
are hundreds, if not thousands, of hobbyists and non-programmers who make digital games outside of the games industry's model. There
are  lots
of tools that
allow people to make and
distribute games without ever having written
a line of code and without
having to pass through publishers' gates. In years to
come, there will be a lot
more tools.

Playing the Infinite Game

Evolution, life, mind, and the technium are infinite games.
Their game is to keep the game going. To keep all participants playing as long
as possible. They do that, as all infinite games do, by playing around with the
rules of play. The evolution of evolution is just that kind of play.

Mind Games

John Lennon realized, then propounded, that the only barrier to our living in a better world is agreement that we are committed to it.

Elections Astrology: Obama, Lincoln, JFK, Bailout Games, and Palin’s Potency

As we approach the election, the unexpected is becoming inescapable. That is the nature of the Saturn-Uranus opposition, which becomes exact on Election Day.

Myth, Gods, and Video Games

We have a real, innate desire to see our dreams come to life. Video games can help us understand our potential to become the gods and myths of our imagination.

The Olympic Feeling: A Countercultural Response to the Games

Behind this polluting, manipulative and
sometimes mind-controlling business lies something sublime and true, a
primal and intimate feeling that stems from the experience of
the body.