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Video games top treatment for dyslexia, say researchers

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Most video-games-dyslexiapeople think video games and reading don’t mix, but it turns out a little Halo here and there might actually be effective in treating dyslexia.

So says a group of neurologists from Italy’s University of Padua, who found a correlation between a dyslexic child’s visual attention span and their ability to read. The results of their study, published in the most recent edition of Current Biology, indicate that playing video games for just 12 hours is more beneficial than a full year of intense therapy.

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Piracy rules in Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag

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The assassins-creed-4-black-flag-announce-top640unveiling of the next game in Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed franchise didn’t exactly go as planned. Early leaks of the game’s poster and nautical plot hook — along with some earnest hand wringing by gaming media outlets — lessened the impact of the reveal, but that doesn’t mean the game is any less intriguing.

Ubisoft has now formally pulled back the curtain on Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, due out November 1. The new game takes the popular franchise in a different direction, this time turning gamers into pirate assassins rampaging on the high seas. While there will be plenty of dry dock skullduggery to perform, developers say roughly 40 percent of the game will be spent sailing the ocean blue.

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The shady origins of five popular board games

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Quaker untold-board-game-stories-top640extortionists and Monopoly? The Civil War and The Game of Life? We usually associate board gaming with family time, but several of the most popular games out there have some not-so-family-friendly origins.

So if you’re looking to spark some interesting conversations next time you gather ’round the table for an evening of dice and fake money, here are a few of the lesser known tales of history’s biggest board games.

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Invisibility cloak ‘appears’ at TED Talks

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The invisibility-cloak-top630Elder Wand and Resurrection Stone may still be locked away in J. K. Rowling’s imagination, but the third Deathly Hallow made a rare appearance on stage in Long Beach this week.

Baile Zhang, an assistant professor of physics at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, showed off his “invisibility cloak” on Monday at the TED2013 talks in Long Beach.

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Meet the NFL prospect that learned football from Madden video game

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Margus margus-huntHunt is a familiar name for fans of Southern Methodist University football. As a Mustang, he broke the SMU record for blocked kicks, deflecting eight in his first 14 games. He was also the MVP of the 2012 Hawaii Bowl.

At 6’8″ and 277 pounds, he’ll likely be just as familiar to NFL fans in the coming years. But at this year’s NFL Combine, Hunt revealed a secret to his success that no one saw coming: If it hadn’t been for EA’s Madden series, he might never have played football at all.

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Playstation 4 questions linger

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While ps4_630_v2Sony formally unveiled the PlayStation 4 at its media event Wednesday night, it left plenty of questions unanswered.

Much of that was deliberate. After all, the system won’t hit store shelves until the holidays — a good 9 months off — and the company’s marketing machine needs to keep some of its powder dry. But Sony ignored several concerns during its two-hour press conference, many of which remain top of mind for those interested in the next-generation console.

Luckily, Sony addressed a few of these following the reveal. Here’s the lowdown on a handful of big issues.

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Sony unveils PlayStation 4, coming holiday 2013

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After ps4_630_v2almost a year of rumors and whispers, Sony has finally revealed the worst kept secret in gaming: The PlayStation 4 is on the way.

At a lavish press event in New York, the company showed off its next-generation console, a system it hopes will lure people away not only from competing machines from Microsoft and Nintendo, but from smart phones, tablets and other new gaming platforms. It will be released this holiday season, though the company didn’t announce a price.

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