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Use IFTTT to Find Cheap and Free Video Games Online

If This Then That is great for everything from managing your savings to archiving your favorite songs on Spotify, but did you know you can also use it to find free video games? There are dozens of applets (IFTTT’s name for any combination of triggers and actions used through the service) designed to help you track gaming giveaways.

What Does Your Game Console Say About You? [INFOGRAPHIC]

You know what they say: The Xbox doesn't fall too far from the tree. This infographic hilariously breaks down what your game console says about you.

12 Fun & Weird Facts About the Classic Video Games You Love

To help you (80's babies!) relive your glory gaming days, we’ve pulled together 12 fun and weird facts about those classic video games from your childhood that you know and love.

Why ‘Beetlejuice’ Sounds Unlike Any Musical Before It

Sound designer Peter Hylenski discusses process and the undead comedy.

12 Sexy Bachelorette Party Ideas

It's wedding season! So get ready for billowing white tulle, peony overload, teary declarations of love, drunk dancing to Journey, and best of all, bachelorette parties.

Study Shows Playing Video Games Really Can Make Your Brain Bigger

Previous research on whether playing video games can make us smarter has been mixed, but a new study demonstrates a very tangible effect of playing video games: Parts of the brain can get bigger.

Gaming is about solving problems that don’t exist, and that’s a good thing

The meaning of "gamification" in 2020 has never been more nebulous. Quartz sat down with professor Ian Bogost, a founding partner of Persuasive Games, to help make sense of the evolving gaming industry and the expansive role it plays in our economy.

10 Amazing Ways Video Games Can Change Your Life

(via Neatorama) They can save your life, crush your soul, make you a fortune, or even leave you penniless. Here

Biofeedback video game helps kids control anger

In RAGE Control, users with elevated heart rates lose the ability to shoot enemy spaceships and must calm down to get their game back on.

How A Medieval Video Game Can Help Us Think About The Past

A recent video game walks through a version of the Middle Ages. Its imagery might say a lot about modern assumptions related to the period - ones related to darkness and death - but its status as a video game opens up great possibilities to explore the real complexity of the past.

You've been played: when your kids start beating you at video games

I taught my son how to play video games. Now he’s teaching me

Video games can and should inspire entire societies to do better

Computer Games In China Ease ADHD Symptoms By Improving Concentration In Kids

Children diagnosed with ADHD can improve certain behaviors by playing a computer game that exercises concentration.

More than a game: How the experts are measuring Twitch activations

More than a game: How the experts are measuring Twitch activations. From PR Week

Finnish Doctors Using Video Games To Treat ADHD

As we all know, video games have traditionally been for confusing news organizations, committing virtual war-crimes, and turning the otherwise sweet, virtuous children of the western world into gun-toting real-life Duke Nukems with no regard for human...

Maybe Videogames Are Actually What I Don't Need Right Now