One of our final stops for the show was Antec who was showing off its usual extensive range of cases and power supplies, but the one that caught our attention was the Antec 200 gamer case.
It’s been newly launched at Computex and carries the same type of style and design as the more expensive and larger Antec cases, but manages to hit a price point which is more suitable for other markets such as China.
via. TweakTown.com
A new ‘Nature Neuroscience’ study from the University of Rochester in the US claims that playing videogames can improve certain problems with deteriorating eyesight, such as ‘lazy eye’. The research proves that games improved the subject’s “contrast sensitivity” – and that they were able to notice very small changes in different shades of grey – of vital importance when, for example, you are driving at night.
Contrast sensitivity can be affected by problems with aging eyes, such as the condition known as ‘lazy eye’ (amblyopia) and has previously required surgery and/or glasses as a fix.
Long-term improvements in eyesight — “Crucially, the improvements in this study were sustained for months or even years in some cases,” reports the BBC, “suggesting that time spent in front of a computer screen is not necessarily harmful for vision, as has sometimes been suggested.”
Researcher Dr Daphne Bavelier claimed that the stimulation and reward systems involved in gamers’ necessarily quick responses to visual info on the screen was of massive benefit to the health of the eye.
Dr Bavelier wants to make more use of games to “restore the stereo vision… lacking in people with a lazy eye.” [via BBC].
Atmosphir is a free video game / creation tool for Mac & PC. Design mode lets you create enormous 3D platforming levels filled with fun gameplay elements like power-ups and fireballs, while Play mode lets you explore through the thousands of diverse user-created challenges being uploaded every day.
From watching the videos it just seems like such an awesome idea. Creating your own game and being able to play it with friends and your friends can help edit/change things, its just one thing that im going to love to see and read more of after they get out of beta testing.
The new episode of GT TV is out and the world exclusive reveal about the game which was said to rock the internet gaming community is that the game will have a Nazi Zombie mode and many other modes and features revealed.
