Science news articles about 'gamer'

Cineplex Entertainment is renting out downtime at its theatres to video gamers looking to play their Xbox 360 titles.

... American. Even assuming a modest amount of under-reporting, the survey suggests that serious gamers resemble the general population in overall fitness. The fitness data point to an intriguing ...

Eric Nofsinger is betting that Nintendo's hot family-friendly Wii videogame consoles can win the hearts of "hardcore gamers" that lust for battle in action-packed virtual worlds.

Study turns belief commonly held by video game industry, gamers, on its head

The death of the video game arcade has not, alas, been greatly exaggerated. For gamers older than 30, memories of plugging endless quarters into Street Fighter II, Mortal Kombat and After Burner ...

... to feel "addicted," and even stole to support their habit. The study also found that pathological gamers were twice as likely to have been diagnosed with attention problems such as Attention Deficit ...

... moment in the 1980s, Ottumwa was the unlikely hot spot of the fledgling video game industry as gamers around the globe flocked to this sleepy Iowa city and its video game arcade for a series of ...

... in computational performance, leading to ever faster graphics processors being developped to please the gamers. If you have a moderately recent desktop computer, odds are that the graphics card has ...

An Australian video gamer has stolen thousands of dollars from a bank inside an online game and converted them into real-world money.

(AP) -- Raptr, a social network targeting gamers, is hoping to make it easier to see what your friends are currently playing on a broad range of platforms such as the Xbox 360 and personal computers. ...

... Among Thieves", the video game released this week by California studio Naughty Dog, transports gamers into an action-adventure with pacing, effects and storytelling worthy of a Hollywood blockbuster.

Younger children who play video games are more likely than older kids to report pain in their hands and fingers, according to research sparked by the curiosity of an 11-year-old Missouri gamer.

... -- keeping information in mind for 10 or 20 seconds. They're also exploring whether non-gamers produce the same attention results as those found in frequent players when they're asked to play action ...

... the game to the public and offer proteins of unknown shapes. Also starting this week, Foldit gamers will face off against research groups around the world in a major protein-structure competition ...

Gamers have devoted countless years of collective brainpower to rescuing princesses or protecting the planet against alien invasions. Researchers at the University of Washington are trying to harness ...