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Old People: Play Video Games, Maybe Get a Break on Car Insurance [Geezers At The Wheel]

Is President Palmer still doing the Allstate insurance ads? Why didn't he tell us about this? It seems the U.S. auto policy underwriter wants to test whether video games can help make 50-year-olds (and up) into better drivers. Allstate's offering specialized computer games to some 100,000 customers in Pennsylvania between 50 and 75. The games they play are not necessarily driving specific; they test for visual alertness and try to slow cognitive decline. The developer, San Francisco based Posit Science will track the number of hours the drivers play, and their performance will be compared with the accident rates of their demographic. Drivers in their 50s are considered among the safest, but the accident rate spikes sharply once they reach their mid-60s. Allstate wants to know why. [lien] [EN]

People Do More Gaming Than Sex Having in Bed [Uk]

We already knew Brits like buying video games more than music. Now it seems like like playing video games more than doing each other. A survey from "bedroom specialist Sharps" polled 2,000 people in the UK about the most common activities in bed. What did the bedroom retailer find? Number one was sleeping, number two was talking. Three? That was watching TV. To see where gaming fell, hit the jump. It's surprising! 1. Sleeping 2. Talking 3. TV 4. Net surfing 5. Reading 6. Listening to music 7. Using the phone 8. Working 9. Computer games 10. Sex Sex Not That Popular [Mirror via Game|Life] [Pic] [lien] [EN]

More People Now Play Music Games Than Sports Games [Rock Band]

According to a report by market researchers Odyssey, music games have now overtaken sports titles as the second-most played genre/category in video games. While 62% of surveyed gamers said they played sports games in 2005, that figure was down to only 50% in 2008. Which puts them behind the increasingly popular music games – such as Rock Band, SingStar and Guitar Hero – that 58% of surveyed gamers said they'd played. The decline in the sporting market would be troubling for EA if they, you know. Didn't also help put out Rock Band. As for the top-selling category/genre, that's still “action games”, which 65% of surveyed gamers had partaken in. Music video games overtake sports and game console growth [VentureBeat] Read More: Next Week On Rock Band: Pure Nirvana. [lien] [EN]

Tell Us Dammit: Have You Ever Lied About Playing a Game? [Tell Us Dammit]

Whoops! Hey, we missed TUD on Friday because of all the hoorah with GC 2008, so looks like I am the temporary caretaker of the giraffe this weekend. I got a question you can answer one of two ways. Or two questions and you can answer one. Or both. Who cares, here it goes. So I'm hideous about staying current with popular culture. Lots of times people will ask me if I've seen a movie, or if I watch the latest HBO Original drama that everyone's raving about. (I never saw Borat. I don't watch Entourage.) And I'd rather avoid the horrified expressions and fulminating evangelism, so I make a non-committal statement in the affirmative and then dodge my way out of the conversation. But last week, I had to admit I've never played Halo 3. (Well, never played it in multiplayer. [lien] [EN]

This Week on the Nintendo Channel: Real people play Professor Layton

This Week on the Nintendo Channel - Real people play Professor Layton by David Hinkle { Aug 4th 9 at 5PM } Nintendo has made a bold move with Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box . Instead of having plastic or cardboard (see: fake) people promote the game, Nintendo has put it into the hands of real flesh-and-blood individuals. Will it pay off for the company to promote the game via the everyman, or should it have stuck with its usual people who have too much money to play games? Hit the jump for this week's content on the Nintendo Channel. DS demo Shorts (expires 9) Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (expires 9), Ant Nation (expires 9). Video content Real people play Professor Layton - video , Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box info video. [lien] [EN]

● Shall we play a game?

Ollie and I invented a new game last night. Actually, it's more fair to say that he invented it and I followed along. The playing field consisted of two couches facing each other with a coffee table in between. All the furniture was raised off the ground so that the ground-level lines of sight were clear. He started by crawling around one of the couches. I gave chase and caught up with him; he saw me coming and started laughing and crawling away faster. I overtook him and he started chasing me. So I crawled around to the back of the other couch, intending to ambush him from behind. But Ollie peeked underneath the furniture, saw that I was going the other way, and turned around to catch me. There was so much laughing when he ambushed my ambush...he was just so tickled that he'd figured it out. [lien] [EN]

Yes, Females Play Video Games (More Should Make 'Em!) [Industry]

More data! CNN points out that according to the Entertainment Software Association, 38 percent of gamers are females and spend an average of 7.4 hours a week playing video games. What's more, they... [lien] [EN]

Prison Guards Criticized for Playing Video Games, Watching TV on Duty

The Associated Press reports on a scandal at the Orange County, California jail, where guards played video games, watched television, and generally tried to do the least amount of work possible. An investigation by District Attorney Tony Rackauckas concluded that the beating death of a 41-year-old inmate in 2006 was attributable in part to what he called “institutionalized laziness” among the guards. From the AP report: The deputy in the guard station who would have had the best view of the 20- to 50-minute attack on John Derek Chamberlain watched the TV show “Cops” and sent 22 personal text messages during the Oct. 5, 2006, beating. A stream of inmates came and went from the area where the attack was going on, bringing water from the bathrooms to clean up the crime scene… The [District Attorney’s] report said jail personnel regularly failed to patrol the jail. [lien] [EN]

'Why Do Good People Make Bad Games?' [Game Design]

Game Developer editor Brandon Sheffield mused on why it is that with so many creative and talented people, so many bad games get made - both in terms of making awful licensed titles, and people not taking the 'plunge' to do original and exciting titles: I see conferences and talks on the future of games and design, and the true integration and collaboration of games with other media, and many of these ideas are sound, genuinely intriguing, and some of them are even possible to implement. Yet, where are they? There are so many fantastic ideas out there not getting realized .... That's the big question. How do you take that plunge? I can't count how many people I've talked to who have great ideas for games, or who had better concepts for sub-par games that were eventually released. [lien] [EN]

Far Cry 2 - Play The Game You Want To Play [Far Cry 2]

newVideoPlayer("farcry2509_kotaku.flv", 480, 290,""); Far Cry 2 looks like the sort of game I could get completely lost in. Looking at the scenic environments in this video, a preview clip from Ubisoft's upcoming Ubidays press event, I get the urge to just wander about. Maybe it's just my recent exposure to Wild Earth: African Safari talking, but what they've created here almost looks too lovely to blow up. Fortunately the way you play the game is just as varied as the vistas you'll encounter. Creative director Clint Hocking sums up the concept of Far Cry 2 quite nicely towards the end of the video. It's about giving the player the opportunity to play the game he wants to play the way he wants to play it. That's a concept I can totally get behind. [lien] [EN]

Boehner: ‘We’re playing political games on the backs of our troops.’

After directing his caucus to vote “present” on a $162.5 billion proposal to continue funding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — a move that effectively killed the bill — House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) said on the floor of the House today that, “we’re playing political games on the backs of our troops.” [...] [lien] [EN]

9-Year-Old Plays Driving Game, Steals Parent's Car [Japan]

A nine year old boy has been arrested in Japan for stealing his parents car to visit his grandmother. And how, pray, does a nine year old kid learn to drive? "It's my first time driving" he said, "but I learned from watching dad and playing at the video arcade." Police in Gifu prefecture received a call on Monday morning from an anxious pedestrian who had seen a car apparently with no driver - the little sod was sitting on th every edge of the seat, strainingto reach the pedals and peer over the steering wheel. The real question of course is What game did he practice on? Knowing if there are junior GTA players on the loose could be a very different prospect to under-age Mario Kart re-enactors. Boy, 9, sets off on drive in family car after practicing on video games [Mainichi Daily News] Read More. [lien] [EN]

Three million people played Dead Space

Three million people played Dead Space by Justin McElroy { Jul 7th 9 at 0PM } [Xbox] [PlayStation] [lien] [EN]