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Video game research shows you’re past your peak already at 25 Scientists have been using video games to study reaction speeds as people age and have discovered that it all starts to fall apart at 24.
Scientists have been using games to study reaction speeds as people age and have discovered that it all starts to fall apart at 24. From 25 onwards your brain has started its gentle decay in a warm, nursing home-ready goop. The Canadian study used StarCraft 2 because its save logs allowed a “noninvasive and direct measures of natural performance” of some 3,305 players between the ages of 16 to 44. The posh science phrasing states that, “the present study investigates age-related changes in cognitive motor performance through adolescence and adulthood in a complex real world task, the real-time strategy video game StarCraft 2”. The short version is that they looked…
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Blizzard files suit against makers of Starcraft II cheats Canadian, Peruvian programmers sold map hacks and cheats for the popular RTS.
Blizzard started the month of October by banning 5000 cheaters in Starcraft II. Out to show they mean business, the developer is now going after the hackers who created the cheats and taking them to court. Last week Blizzard filed suit in the Los Angeles US District Court against 3 suspected programmers: “Just days after the release of Starcraft II, Defendants already had developed, marketed, and distributed to the public a variety of hacks and cheats designed to modify (and in fact destroy) the Starcraft II online game experience. In fact, on the very day that Starcraft II was released, representatives of the hacks Web site advised members of the…
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