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Gamers adapt better to battlefield conditions
 The
U.S. Department of Defence (Defense if you are an American) has posted
a story about the Office of Naval Research’s work with videogame
training. It appears that exposure to video games improves perceptual
and cognitive ability in soldiers, according to Program Officer Ray
Perez.
Perez, who works for the Office of Naval Research’s Warfighter Performance  department,
has noticed that those who have undergone videogame training are more
adaptable in the field, a trait that he refers to as ‘fluid
intelligence’. This is in addition to other benefits that have been
noted, in Perez’s words, “… video games can increase perceptual
abilities and short-term memory. They allow the player to focus longer
and expand the player’s field of vision compared to people who don’t
play video games”.
There appears to be a marked difference in results using old training
methods and videogame training, almost conclusively ruling out the
factor that soldiers who are naturally more perceptive and adaptable
are draw to the training program.
You can view the original DoD story here.
Discuss this here
Brett Venter
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Overclockers caught in cheating scandal, banned for life
 Four of the world’s top overclockers have been banned for life by
XtremeSystems.org and for one year by HWBOT for cheating in the recent
MSI Lords of Overclocking online competition. All were disqualified
from said competition
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Righthaven engaged in copyright trolling?
 Steve Gibson, the CEO of Righthaven, is taking on websites that are
illegally reposting content online by emulating patent trolls.
Righthaven is a new company that is buying up copyrights for newspaper
content posted online and then suing any blogs or sites that reproduce
that information illegally, which is apparently proving profitable for
the fledgling group
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Blizzard has embargoed all Wings of Liberty reviews
 Blizzard has introduced a global embargo on all StarCraft 2: Wings of
Liberty reviews, a move that is being reported by several sources
online, until after the game launches. According to Blizzard this is
mainly due to Battle.Net which the company would like reviewers to
experience in its entirety before publishing reviews
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UltraViolet the new DRM?
 There appears to be a new DRM (Digital Right Management) scheme on the
horizon, going by the name UltraViolet. Apparently backed by many of
the major players in the film and television industry, the official
site says that it is “designed to let consumers enjoy movies and TV shows without being locked into one specific format”
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Developer for female gamers launches
 Yesterday the formation of Silicon Sisters Interactive (SSI) was
announced. A Canada-based gaming company and the brainchild of Brenda
Bailey Gershkovitch and Kirsten Forbes, both of whom have been active
in the gaming industry for some time, Silicon Sisters aims to cater
specifically to female gamers
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Pinnacle makes offer to purchase Axiz
 Pinnacle Technology Holdings Limited (PTH) has made an offer to
purchase 100% of shares in Axis Technology (Pty) Ltd. Pinnacle’s aim is
to merge its solution focused distributor with Axiz which according to
Worgroup MD Doug Woolley will allow Worgroup to expand into new markets
as well as provide Axiz with Workgroups solution expertise
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Asus Crosshair IV Formula review
 The Asus Crosshair IV Formula is the first motherboard to arrive at the
PCF Ranch based on AMD’s new 890FX chipset. The 890FX is the flagship
of AMD’s 8-series chipsets and like its brethren lacks support for the
AM2+ socket/processors as well as DDR2 memory. AMD has given the 890FX
chipset a total of 38 PCI-E lanes which are split between four PCI-E
x16 slots which will have 8 lanes each, a single PCI-E x4 slot and two
PCI-E x1 slots.
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