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People who are addicted to playing computer games show some of the same personality traits as people with Aspergers syndrome.

This is the conclusion of Dr John Charlton of the University of Bolton and Ian Danforth of Whitman College, USA. Their results were presented at the British Psychological Society’s Annual Conference in Dublin on the Thursday 3 April 2008.

The researchers questioned 391 computer game players, 86 per cent of whom were male. They considered relationships between addiction, ‘high engagement’ and personality. They found that the closer the players got to addiction the more likely they were to display negative personality traits. And that as players showed more signs of addiction they were increasingly characterised by three personality traits that would normally be associated with Aspergers, a variety of high functioning autism. These were neuroticism, and lack of extraversion and agreeableness.

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I wanted to post a little about Aspergers distorter. Check after the jump

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Taken from May’s Nintendo Power Issue:

The controls just didn’t make the jump to Wii as well as they should have… Okami is a work of genius, …
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Ecolis will be released in English, French, Spanish, German and Italian.

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Today Lucas Arts announced that Star Wars Force Unleashed will be hading to NA Sept. 16, Southeast Asia and Australia on Sept. 17 and Europe on Sept 19.

“Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is one of the most ambitious projects LucasArts has ever launched. The combination of a great new Star Wars story with revolutionary new technology and game play means more fun than you’ve ever had in the Star Wars universe,” said Peter Hirschmann, Vice-President of Product Development, LucasArts. “We can’t wait until gamers get their hands on it this September.”

Also Lucas Arts has teamed up with Spike TV this weekend, during an Stars Wars marathon, to show segments which shows off different aspects of video of Star Wars Force unleashed. Check out the times below.

• April 6 at 7:58 p.m. ET/PT – between the premiere of Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones and Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith

• April 11 at 10:52 p.m. ET/PT – At the end of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope
• April 12 at 12:00 a.m. ET/PT – throughout an episode of GameTrailers TV with Geoff Keighley filmed at LucasArts’ headquarters in San Francisco
• April 12 at 5:06 p.m. ET/PT – before Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope
• April 13 at 5:06 p.m. ET/PT – before Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back

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Update: Official Press release after the jump.

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COIN (Super Mario Bros.) Worth: $37,000 (U.S.) Methodology: 100 coins = 1 life. Human life = $3.7 million, according to the Environmental Protection Agency What It Means: …
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Yesterday, IGN.com briefly had a story announcing that Skate would be making an appearance on the Wii and DS. The story was then quickly taken down with …
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Wide Open and Authentic College Style Gameplay
It’s Wide Open

* Bigger holes, cutback lanes, and open receivers, making the game feel more wide open than ever before
* Directional pump fake on the R stick
* New college specific tackling engine

Home of the 12th Man and Home Field Advantage with new mini-game components

* Pre-play confusion and difficulty making adjustments when on the road against tough teams
* All new toughest places to play with dynamic rankings

All-new Mascot Mode with User Controlled Celebrations

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