News Alert: Games Might Save Your Life!
January 19, 2006 by Ingrid Diaz
Filed under Gaming
Holy crap darn! Finally, something positive about video games in the news. I can’t believe it. Am I dreaming? Have I died from excessive video gaming and gone to video gaming heaven?
No?
I’m still here?
Then it must be true!
VIDEO GAMES CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE!
Video games are being trained in CPR … er, something about dormant genes. I can’t explain it to you cause I didn’t go to Med school like I meant to, so just read this here thing:
Video game publisher Mastiff hopes to increase the longevity of Game Boy Advance owners’ lives with their upcoming release of “Dr. Sudoku.” According to a recent study conducted at the University of Edinburgh, games such as Sudoku can awaken ’survival genes’ that lay dormant in the human brain. These survival genes make the brain cells live longer and resist disease, strokes and the effects of drugs. Mastiff will be releasing “Dr. Sudoku” for the Game Boy® Advance in March 2006.
“When brain cells are highly stimulated, many unused genes are suddenly reactivated. We have found that a group of these genes can make the active brain cells far healthier than lazy, inactive cells, and more likely to live a long life,” said Giles Hardingham of the University of Edinburgh at the annual meeting for the Society of Neuroscience in Washington.
Wait, what about F.E.A.R.? What about Buffy? SingStar? Do these do nothing for my health? Damnit Darnit.
[via Hardware Geeks]
Well I’m toast – I can’t do Suduko to save my life; or cryptic crosswords.
Isn’t it funny how everyone has suddenly come out with this story. There were several articles last weekend in the Australian papers about this.
I just put it down to interested parties wanting to sell more puzzles. A quick hunt around doesn’t show who the research was done for, though I could have missed it.
And as for F.E.A.R. et al, just convince yourself they are good for you – you do have to find things and think your way through situations don’t you?