News.com.au reports on a study that was published in the science journal, Nature Neuroscience, that has proven that games provide a sort of training for your sight.

Far from being harmful to eyesight, as some had feared, action games provide excellent training for what eye doctors call contrast sensitivity, the study found.

Contrast sensitivity is the ability to notice tiny changes in shades of grey against a uniform background, and is critical to everyday activities such as night driving and reading. It often degrades with age…. Read more… »

I was perusing the Internet Movie Database when I found this.  That’s right…Castlevania, the movie, is slated for 2011.  I don’t know about you but…every video game movie I have sat down to watch, has been crap.  I say crap, but I am really only being family friendly.  I thought that I might be a bit too negative, maybe I have just given up hope that a decent video game movie would slip through the cracks (Silent Hill was “ok“).  So, I decided to click on a few of the people involved, and since there isn’t a cast listed yet, I clicked on the writer. Read more… »

For gamers, it’s worrying to think that our golden age has passed. We look back at all of the glorious gaming nirvana of the earlier systems and still, to this very day, lament the passing of some of the greats. Across all mediums, it’s obvious that the ninties was not only the growing stages of gaming, but they were the best days too. Nostalgia is a tough beast. Some say that it clouds our vision, because we tend to tie strong emotions of our childhood with the games we used to play. I don’t agree. Read more… »

For those of you already pumped about the new Ratchet & Clank game, get ready. A brand new video teaser has been revealed for the game, and we’re more excited than ever! The teaser doesn’t exactly show much, or reveal anything new, but we’re still ecstatic! It’s always the teasers that reveal almost nothing that are the most thrilling.

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For those of you excited about Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, you’ll be happy to know that some gameplay footage was shown at the Game Developers Conference, and it’s leaked out onto the Internet. Unfortunately the quality of the video is pretty terrible. But we’ll provide you with a link to download the video yourself, once you do it looks alot better, and a link to a forum that contains some pretty spectacular screenshots of the game.

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What do you get if you cross Final Fantasy and Disney? Kingdom Hearts. KH is a crossover between Squaresoft (Now Square-Enix), and Disney Interactive. Released in 2002 Kingdom Hearts is an Action RPG of epic proportions. Being the first game in the series it’s got a lot to prove to both Action and RPG fans alike. Can it satisfy both? Or does it just come off as mediocre across the board? Hit the jump to find out.

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If you were to ask anyone who has played the first dead rising what they remember. Most of the time they would reply ‘’There was a ton of zombies’’. Dead rising 2 has set its hopes with the ambition to get even more flesh hungry undead onscreen than ever before. Read more… »

The ‘Daily Limit’ is a feature that we publish at the end of each day, containing the day’s interesting articles from around the web. The Daily Limit is short, to the point and pretty much just links.

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Excite Bots has Super Sandwiches, need I say more? Come on it’s a sandwich, mankind’s greatest food invention. It’s also Super, did I mention that? Moving on, the more details about Excite Bots that come out, the more of an improvement it seems over Excite Truck. Here is a game that has fully embraced the fact that it is a game. Building a sandwich by collecting power-ups while racing seems ridiculously fun and reminds me why I love games. Narrative experience be damned, we need more sandwiches!

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Destructoid’s Nick Chester recently unearthed an email containing tentative titles that were pitched before Harmonix settled on Rock Band.  The majority of these game titles are ridiculous, making you wonder why anyone would even flirt with the idea of going with these names.  What we have to work on is picture of a computer screen displaying said email.  Click the jump for the image and the list of titles.

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A couple days ago we brought you news regarding the Katamari Tribute game coming soon for PS3.  If a grainy image of a magazine scan wasn’t substantial enough for you, then we have what you need.  Click continue to check out the random brilliance of the Katamari Tribute trailer.

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Every now and again I like to think that, on the whole, mankind hasn’t done too badly for itself. We may not be plumbing the depths of deep space just yet, but the amount of our own we’ve killed in the name of some unseen deity or profitability is a record we can be doubly proud of. Doubly, because any creature wishing to challenge us for the record must first climb its way up to the top of the food chain – and last time I looked, there was no space beside me for an ocelot. And secondly; that number just keeps on getting higher, yet there’s somehow an overpopulation problem. 1-0 MonkeyMan. Read more… »