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Video Game Meds: The Analgesic Properties of Video Games
June 26th, 2008 | 
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Another study, this time out of Wheeling, West Virginia in the USA. Students at Wheeling Jesuit University completed a study into the analgesic properties of video games. The study results indicate that playing sports or fighting video games produces a dramatic level of pain distraction. Now I can see why this study might have been embraced by at least some of the students at WJU.
“OK, we’re going to get half of the class over there playing some excellent sports and fighting video games, then the rest of us are going to attach electrodes to your nipples, dial up the current and then ask whether it hurts.” Sure it sounds like a typical drunken night of video gaming that got a bit out of hand, but by all accounts this was an honest to goodness genuine academic study, complete with a Professor with an amusing name. Director of Undergraduate Research, Associate Professor of Psychology, Dr Bryan Raudenbush, says the study results suggest that video games could help distract patients from painful injections or dental work.
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Street Fighter Alpha 3 Max Review
There are a lot of good reasons to be revisiting Capcom’s Street Fighter Alpha 3 Max, the Street Fighter port released for the PSP back in 2006. Capcom celebrated its 25th birthday just a couple of weeks ago on June 11th. In May this year Capcom announced what we’ all suspected. Street Fighter 4; already heading to the arcades later this year, would also be making its way to PS3, Xbox360 and PC as well. Then there’s Kristin Kreuk. She’s still the best reason to watch Smallville, and currently she’s filming the latest Street Fighter movie – Street Fighter – the Legend of Chun Li, in Bangkok. Lastly, Street Fighter Alpha 3 Max was the first game ever reviewed by The Incomplete Gamer, albeit for another gaming website. As our first piece of review code, the UMD takes pride of place in the TIG lab.
But a word of warning. while the following review holds a special place in our heart, there’s nothing new here that we haven’t all seen before. If Street Fighter was a singer and not a game franchise it would have retired to Vegas a long time ago, where it could perform the same routine seven nights a week to its loyal fans.
