How Realistic Is Video Game Drunkenness?

While on Kotaku, i saw this really awesome article about the realism of video game drunkenness. They even made a video where they tried to see how realistic it is. Yeah, it weren't realistic. But check out the video, if you got the time!

How Realistic Is Video Game Drunkenness? - VIDEO 

Movie Monday #1 Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

Movie Monday? What?
Yeah, so Movie Monday is something i'm going to do every monday. What it's about, is that i'll simply recommend a movie i watched during the week and talk a bit about it.

For this Movie Monday i want to recommend the movie Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.
It's about this socially akward boy, played by Michael Cera (surprised, huh?) who finds the girl of his dream. He falls in love with her, but the only problem is, that he needs to fight her 7 evil ex'es before he can continue dating her.

The movie is really fun to watch and i was entertained the whole way through it. The movie is built up as a video game, so if you're a nerd you can kind of laugh at that. But i still think that everyone can watch the movie and enjoy it as much as i did.

Call of Duty: Black Ops review

Hey guys! Here is my very first game review! I hope you'll like it.

Call of Duty: Black Ops is a really good game. You can clearly feel that it's a part of the Call of Duty franchise and you really get that "Call of Duty-feel" when playing it.  That, i really like. It's pretty much the main reason why i bought this game. I was scared that Treyarch would make a completely different game, which wouldn't feel like a Call of Duty game. Hopefully, they didn't.


So, the story of this game is really great. Even though it can be very confusing, with its jumping around in different years, i really liked how they used that to introduce different weapons instead of the same old, boring modern weapons. I really enjoyed playing with stg 44, PPSH and Mosin Nagant, because i haven't played with guns like that since Call of Duty 2!


I'm not going to talk about the graphics, since i'm running a low-end computer, which isn't able to run the game on highest graphics.


As mentioned earlier, the game feels really good and actiony. (is that a word?). There is almost, always constant battle, which makes sure that the gamer doesn't get bored. 
As in the other games they added these little things, which doesn't have to do with shooting. For example, sitting in a Blackbird and helping out your squad, and the rapelling. I enjoyed both things really much.


So, overall i think Black Ops is one of the best Call of Duty games yet (at least the singeplayer part), because of its great story and its many different weapons. I honestly haven't got much bad to say about this game, since i found it pretty much, completely bug free. They could have made it longer, but what the heck. All Call of Duty games are short, and i think we're getting used to it by now.


9/10

Update on what's coming up the next few weeks.

So, yeah. I got vacation the whole next week, so i'm just going to chill out, blogging some and checking out other peoples blogs.
I thought i might as well give an update, on what's hopefully going to happen on this blog.

Reviews
I think it's about time i start writing some game reviews. I never got to complete Black Ops, so i'm probably reviewing that. I am also yet to complete Dead Space 2, so that will be reviewed also. Bulletstorm is coming out in a few days, so i will definetely be trying that out!

Things i love
I think it could also be interesting to blog about other things i love, which isn't gaming. I got a few things planned out, so look forward to that!

Random articles
I will be continuing doing, what i have done so far. Which is posting random articles about gaming and technology i find on the internet.

So, that is what's going to happen on this blog. Have a nice day!      

Steve Jobs dying?

So, according to National Enquirer, Apple CEO, Steve Jobs is really sick of cancer and apparently only has six weeks left to live.

Since only half of the stories in National Enquirer, i'm really hoping that this story is fake, because Steve Jobs is a genius and one of the most important persons in the technology business.

So, what do you think? Is he dying, or is National Enquirer just making up a story to earn money?

Video games cures depressions?

Here's a fun and interesting article i read on Kotaku about casual puzzle games being able to cure depressions. I hope you enjoy the article!

While more mainstream video games are under fire for causing depression, a new study at East Carolina University finds that playing casual puzzle games is an effective way to combat clinical depression and anxiety. Guess who underwrote the study? 

East Carolina University's Psychophysiology Lab and Biofeedback Clinic have spent the past year putting 60 test subjects meeting the criteria for clinical depression through a grueling series of PopCap-brand casual puzzle games. Using technologies with long, important-sounding names like psychophysiology and biochemical and psychological measurements, the study found that subjects in the video game group experienced an average reduction in depression symptoms of 57 percent.

The study was underwritten by PopCap Games, one of the world's leading casual game publishers.

Subjects that played Bejeweled 2, Bookworm Adventures, and Peggle - all PopCap games, of course - also experienced a significant reduction in anxiety and improvement to all aspects of mood.

In a press release accompanying this news, the study's author actually suggested that casual games were so effective at treating depression they could potentially be used to replace common treatment options, including medication.

"The results of this study clearly demonstrate the intrinsic value of certain casual games in terms of significant, positive effects on the moods and anxiety levels of people suffering from any level of depression" stated Dr. Carmen Russoniello, Director of the Psychophysiology Lab and Biofeedback Clinic at ECU and the professor who oversaw the study (as well as previous studies involving the same games' effects on stress levels). "In my opinion the findings support the possibility of using prescribed casual video games for treating depression and anxiety as an adjunct to, or perhaps even a replacement for, standard therapies including medication."

I don't know how far I'd trust a study heralding the positive benefits of casual gaming that's been underwritten by one of the world's top publishers of casual games, but the results, if accurate, are quite impressive. We've seen video games used as therapy for physical ailments. Why not the mental ones?

Rest in peace

Today i was told that a 16-year old girl from my school died last night. I didn't know her, but i think it's terrible when a person that young fades away.

R.I.P