Game
hideA game is a structured activity, usually undertaken for enjoyment and sometimes used as an educational tool. Games are distinct from work, which is usually carried out for remuneration, and from art, which is more concerned with the expression of ideas. However, the distinction is not clear-cut, and many games are also considered to be work (such as professional players of spectator sports/games) or art (such as jigsaw puzzles or games involving an artistic layout such as Mah-jongg solitaire).
Key components of games are goals, rules, challenge, and interaction. Games generally involve mental or physical stimulation, and often both. Many games help develop practical skills, serve as a form of exercise, or otherwise perform an educational, simulational or psychological role. According to Chris Crawford, the requirement for player interaction puts activities such as jigsaw puzzles and solitaire "games" into the category of puzzles rather than games.
Attested as early as 2600 BC, games are a universal part of human experience and present in all cultures. The Royal Game of Ur, Senet, and Mancala are some of the oldest known games.
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News tagged with game
Winning While Losing: New Strategy Solves 'Two-Envelope' Paradox
Aug 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Australia have taken a step toward resolving a seemingly simple yet unsolved paradox known as the "two-envelope" problem. They’ve worked out a new strategy that can enable ...
Researchers demonstrate a better way for computers to 'see' (w/ Video)
Technology / Computer Sciences
Dec 02, 2009 |
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Taking inspiration from genetic screening techniques, researchers from Harvard and MIT have demonstrated a way to build better artificial visual systems with the help of low-cost, high-performance gaming hardware.
Neandertals sophisticated and fearless hunters
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 14, 2009 |
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Neandertals, the 'stupid' cousins of modern humans were capable of capturing the most impressive animals. This indicates that Neandertals were anything but dim. Dutch researcher Gerrit Dusseldorp analysed their daily forays ...
Is Tetris good for the brain?
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 01, 2009 |
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Brain imaging shows playing Tetris leads to a thicker cortex and may also increase brain efficiency, according to research published in the open access journal BMC Research Notes. A research team based in ...
'Fallout 3' crowned videogame of the year
Mar 26, 2009 |
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Post-apocalyptic adventure "Fallout 3" has been crowned Game of the Year at a major gathering of videogame makers in San Francisco.
Action video games improve vision
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 29, 2009 |
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Video games that involve high levels of action, such as first-person-shooter games, increase a player's real-world vision, according to research in today's Nature Neuroscience.
You wear me out: Thinking of others causes lapses in our self-control
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 06, 2009 |
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Exerting self-control is exhausting. In fact, using self-control in one situation impairs our ability to use self-control in subsequent, even unrelated, situations. What about thinking of other people exerting self-control? ...
New 3-D sensors coming soon to computers, cameras, other gadgets
Jul 08, 2009 |
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In the science fiction movie "Minority Report," set 50 years in the future, Tom Cruise's character interacts with a computer display by moving his hands in front of it.
Death leaves online lives in limbo
Mar 16, 2009 |
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(AP) -- When Jerald Spangenberg collapsed and died in the middle of a quest in an online game, his daughter embarked on a quest of her own: to let her father's gaming friends know that he hadn't just decided ...
Too scary to be real, research looks to quantify eeriness in virtual characters
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Indiana University's Karl MacDorman has been to the valley -- the uncanny valley of virtual humans so lifelike they give us real humans the creeps. What he's found is that things don't look ...
Scientists examine how social networks influence behavior
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 22, 2009 |
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Conventional wisdom holds that it's not what you know, it's who you know. But now scientists studying networking are starting to realize that when it comes to much in life, it's also who the people you know know, and perhaps ...
Research provides new view of the way young children think
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 24, 2009 |
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For parents who have found themselves repeating the same warnings or directions to their toddler over and over to no avail, new research from the University of Colorado at Boulder offers them an answer as to why their toddlers ...
Touch typists could help stop spammers in their tracks
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jul 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Computer scientists at Newcastle University are about to give office workers a perfect excuse to play games: it's all in the name of research. Dr Jeff Yan, together with his PhD student Su-Yang ...
Girls game less because they have less free time, study
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jul 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A Michigan State University study finds that girls spend less time playing digital games than boys because they have less leisure time, a finding that could have long-term implications on ...
Nintendo's Game Boy turns 20
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Apr 23, 2009 |
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Twenty years ago Japan's Nintendo Co. launched the Game Boy, the iconic handheld video game player that spawned characters from Super Mario to Pokemon and sold 200 million units worldwide.
