Is this how we'll be playing video games in the future?

There's no direct link between violent videogames and violent behaviour, asserts the UKIE.

Do strategy games make you smarter? Do shooters make you more agressive? This lady wants to find out.

Is "fun" a quantifiable, measureable thing? Researchers seem to think so.

Were older video games more difficult in the past? Belgian scientists certainly think so, and they've got the research to prove it as well.

The next time you’re lying on a surgery table with your stomach sliced open and your guts hanging out, it could be Kinect telling surgeons where not to cut. All surgeons should, hopefully, know where not to cut already, but when they’re performing robotic-assisted surgeries, things get a little trickier. More after the jump. Last Updated: January 19, 2011

And one of a few other games some very, very clever people have made at Standford University. Ingmar Riedel-Kruse has essentially made a biotic videogame. Instead of designing characters and programing stuff like path-finding algorithms and physics, he’s just made single-celled organisms (paramecium) act as the in-game sprites and characters. The wriggly little buggers float about in fluid-filled container with …

Videogames get blamed for all sorts of malevolence; things like murder, rape, stupidity and obesity. A group of psychologists from the Iowa State University have found a new something to blame our favourite pastime on; Goodness. Their extensive study showed that "some non-violent videogames can teach kids to be more cooperative and helpful to others." The study, superfluously titled The …