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Left Handers Are Better Gamers?

Left handed people can think quicker than the rest of us and therefore make better gamers, claim Australian researchers.

Tests carried out by Neuropsychologists reveal that the brains in left handed people make connections between their left and right hemispheres quicker. This faster movement allows left handers to deal with situations where they are faced with multiple tasks, such as gaming, more efficiently.

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Malfurion5446d ago

There's no way my sister is a better gamer than me.

table5446d ago

lol for sure it's a generalisation, each individual will be different. But in the grand scheme of things there is no reason why this can't be the case, it has been proven in the past that left handers are more creative.

joydestroy5446d ago

yeah, we are typically more creative :]

D4RkNIKON5446d ago

lol yeah me too. Bubbles for you both. Gives new meaning to the title left 4 dead, Left handed frag fest!

Cenobia5446d ago

Cenobia bats left handed!

Cenobia receives 50% boost to gaming ability!

Arnon5446d ago

haha I'm left handed and I always perform better than all of my other gamer friends even when they've been playing the game a lot longer than me XD

sorceror1715446d ago

Maybe when I was a teenager. But as a leftie parent, well... I'm a target or comic relief, quite often. Give me something that takes strategy rather than twitch, though...

jcgamer5446d ago

and I'm pretty sure that I've gotten and can get PWNED by plenty of right-handed gamers...lol...however, I surely can open up a fresh can of whoop a$$ with my left hand...CHALLENGE!

lol :)

pixelsword5445d ago (Edited 5445d ago )

Tt's hard to describe what that is like to people; but when it comes to gaming, when both sides "agree" I can be pretty good at times (not to brag). When both sides disagree, I cannot compete well against a single target because I am under-stimulated: but I can identify and eliminate multiple targets with ease. Also, for some reason, certain times my head shakes a little when playing that cracks everyone up. But it's only because I'm looking at the targets and filtering out the garbage.

Gaming patterns of people are fairly easy to me as well, by their position and movements, I can almost tell who's going to be aggressive or not, or who can handle pressure or not.

It's a weird thing, but if you're also ambidextrous and bilateral-brained, you know what I am talking about.

aaron58295445d ago

And i beat the crap out of him on just about any game he wants to play.

Yep, you guessed it, He's a lefty.

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Dorjan5446d ago

Something tells me these "researchers" were bullied for being left handed in school...

edgeofblade5446d ago

That's the first thing I thought.

It boils me that some people are still obsessed with superiority studies. As if video game sites don't already have enough socially challenged dweebs arguing over what is considered "best".

RememberThe3575446d ago

Who the hell gets bullied for being left handed? I never once had that happen to me.

Maybe their actually scientists who found something actually scientific and studied it. Then after their study, they published their findings. I'm just pissing in the wind here though.

I think your theory of them being begrudged left-handed foscientists caries much more weight.

lol

Fyzzu5446d ago

And yet many games don't have suitable control options for left-handed players. Shame.

kissmeimgreek5446d ago

after years of playing video games ive felt like the right hand setup suits me, a lefty, fine. i dont think id do to good with an opposite controller. but that makes me think... being a lefty might be the reasn i prefer a 360 controller to a ps3 controller. or maybe i just have big hands but whatever...

aaron58295445d ago

Prefering a controler has got nothing to do with it. It's much more of acquired taste if you know what i mean...

As for me, i grew up holding the PS controller.... and now if i hold an xbox controller, i just feel the thing is heavy, bulky, and feel out of place....

I'm not saying the controller is bad... just, i'm not used to it, no matter how hard i try to like it.. i still prefer the ps controller.

:)

glennc5445d ago

yeah it was really getting me down that every other game was coming out without southpaw control options until i bought a modded controller online with the thumbsticks swapped.

my brain is all screwed up though because i can play a 3rd person games in standard but not a 1st person shooter. yet when i try to play 3rd person in southpaw my brain decides it doesn't want to play anymore. don't even get me started on 3rd person shooters.

Redrudy5446d ago

I'm not surprised there's some difference.

mrv3215446d ago

51,000 kills on COD 4 and I'm left handed, with a 30 kill streak all I know for sure is I spend WAAY too much time on it.

DragonWarrior_45446d ago

I got right handed friends that would laugh at you with that comment

SpitFireAce855446d ago

your not that good.But come play COD:WaW since i stopped playing
COD:MWI as of Nov 08.

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Nearly Half Of Gamers Play Video Games To "Express Themselves," Study Finds

Many players find it easier to express themselves while playing games. Yet, over half of the surveyed gamers still play to relieve stress.

H95h ago

I wonder what place made this study, and it's Fandom, no wonder half of the people said that, I find it hilarious that Fandom of all places did manage to pull more than 50% for the argument of playing games for self expression

phoenixwing2h ago

Honestly i don't believe this statistic. All we need is an executive to believe it and they'll focus more on how to "express" ourselves over good gameplay and further ruin gaming.

FinalFantasyFanatic1h ago

I actually just play to relax/have fun, get immersed in another world for a while and enjoy the story/characters, who the hell plays to "express themselves"? I can understand how that applies to say Minecraft, where you're actually making things, but I don't think you can apply this to most games.

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Why Is No One Making AAA Horror Games Anymore?

Saif from eXputer inquires, "Despite the everlasting popularity of the genre, why hasn't there been a good AAA horror game in a while now?"

Jin_Sakai2d ago

Because the gaming industry is obsessed with live service games.

Cacabunga1d 22h ago

Even FPS are rare nowadays

Rynxie1d 21h ago

Because he touches himself at night to characters like lady Dimitrescu.

Crows901d 17h ago

You're the one still thinking about her

Rynxie1d 17h ago

@crow

Did I give away your secret? It's okay, if you sit on your hand and numb it, you can pretend it's her playing with your little stick.

MaximusPrime_2d ago

Good for me, I have no interests in horror games

-Foxtrot2d ago

Even when they do it's first person trying to copy Outlast, Five Nights, P.T etc

I think the Dead Space / RE2 / RE4 Remake and the Evil Within 2 showed you can have a good story based, third person survival horror game.

jeromeface1d 22h ago

remakes is another good reason

thesoftware7301d 21h ago

Calisto Protocol was also fun with fantastic presentation.

FinalFantasyFanatic1d 13h ago

I feel like we haven't had much in the way of horror games for years, I think it became rare after the PS2/PS3 gen. Maybe i'll pick up that Crow Country that recently came out, that looks good.

Venoxn4g1d 11h ago

Crow Country needs some more love.. and more exposure

Redemption-641d 22h ago

Because outside of a fee games, most don't sell that well

Crows901d 17h ago

So in other words...AAA publishers don't have creativity or passion for games.

CrimsonWing691d 22h ago

Didn’t we have Dead Space Remake and Resident Evil 4 Remake last year?

thorstein1d 22h ago (Edited 1d 22h ago )

Among others

And isn't Dying Light 2 a horror game?

Scissorman1d 22h ago

And Alan Wake 2 and Alone in the Dark.

on_line_forever1d 6h ago

I like Alone in the dark but it's not AAA game

richardmmorales1d 13h ago

We also had The Quarry and The Dark Pictures The Devil In Me.

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N64: Recompiled — Creating Native PC Ports Is A Godsend For Game Preservation

"In a time when companies don't care about preserving games, I have high respect for the creators of projects like N64: Recompiled." - Hanzala from eXputer.

gold_drake4d ago

it is, i might be finally able to play Snowboard kids 1 full screen ha.

purple1013d ago

il beat you to the ski-lift,

framerate on snowboard kids was shocking, do you remember./?

talking of shocking framerate and kart racers style games,
Sony had a gem on ps3, with 'Modnation Racers' but again, framerate was so terrible, still fun though, indeed, when is drifting sideways not fun, the answer is never. we have not seen enough of that game, technically some people made race tracks/games in dreams and little big planet etc, but its just not the same,!!! grrrrr

morning rant over.

here, relive some ,memories. https://www.youtube.com/wat...

itBourne3d ago

The load time on ModNation where also excruciatingly long... But man oh man I wish that game took off more, so much fun! Could turn off garbage rubber banding, I had karts with 100's of stickers to design some crazy cool stuff, custom tracks. Fantastic undeappreciated game

gold_drake2d ago

SK1 had a fairly good framerate. sk2 maybe not so much ha

Redgrave2d ago

Some food for thought:

Would you donate your physical copy of a really rare/expensive cartridge (Conkers's BFD, Bomberman 64 Second Attack, Ogre Battle 64, the two Castlevania titles, etc) to those managing this project for the greater good of getting them preserved online for all to experience at some point?

UltimateOwnage2d ago

As long as it meant they never took money from Patreon and invited a DMCA takedown / lawsuit by Nintendo to take it all away. After seeing the whole debacle with Yuzu I now question how long any of these teams can maintain game preservation efforts through emulator development, or otherwise.

franwex2d ago

I mean. They may borrow them…

Profchaos2d ago

Is it realistically needed though I would not personally give anyone my old carts for games that are already persevered and easily available online

Inverno2d ago

The snippet of ray tracing at the end of the og trailer was low-key amazing. I found out thanks to Nerrel who also made a texture pack for MM, and i can't wait to see how much more great this game will be in the near future. With model swaps, ray tracing, retextures, and a more quicker process than decompilation, it's gonna bring new life to N64 games.

Profchaos2d ago

There might need to be a bit of clarification recompilation is not the same as decompilation.

This is basically a container to excite the rom within but allows for all sorts of beat additions and tricks like new lighting effects such as ray tracing to be added.

But decompilation would ultimately be king as it allows for a widespread porting capabilities and uses the assets from games to build a native install for PC or whatever the target system is e.g Mario 64 for PC or sonic mania for psvita / wii

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