The picture above is of course the “what not to do” when playing videogames. Our mothers always told us to never sit so close to the tv, and even in the warnings for every game sold to you, there is a notice for having heavy lighting and keeping your distance (I know this only because of my recent “incident” with Mirrors Edge).

There is a bright spot however to all of these warnings.

Thanks to a new study done by Nature Neuroscience, games like the Call of Duty series, Counter-Strike, and Left 4 Dead provide excellent training for what eye doctors call “contrast sensitivity”, the ability to notice tiny changes in shades of gray against a uniform background. This is critical to everyday activities such as night driving and reading, and it will often degrade as you grow older.

Studies reveal a previously unsuspected adaptability in the brain, and could open the way to new therapies.

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Soap is cool, everyone knows this. It cleanses the body, it makes you smell pretty, and for the other guys here, it’s what we call “Man pretty”.

I’ve never met someone in this world who doesn’t like a good ol’ bar of soap, even when it comes to the hobo down the street who would rather beg for a cigarette or money for a 1.75.

However, this is a site about games, and what does soap have to do with gamers? Other than gamers may or may not wait just a little too long to clean up themselves after going through one of those boss battles for the ages?

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So it seems that the awesomeness of Game Fuel is returning to store shelves, but it is no longer brandishing the epicness of Master Chief. Blizzard struck a deal with Mt. Dew to re-release Game Fuel sporting WoW characters. The original red Game Fuel known as the Horde version will be the same as the original. They are also introducing a new Wild Fruit version which will be the Alliance beverage. It’s no alien stomping, kick ass and take names, super soldier, but that’s ok Game Fuel was awesome.

Sometimes I just don’t get the Wii. It’s full of random little games that are comprised of activities that you could easily do in real life. Think of games like Cooking Mama. Why not spend that time to learn how to really cook? How about simple Wii Bowling? Don’t you think it would be more fun to actually go to a real bowling alley with your friends?  There are literally hundreds of games that you waste your time on doing things that you would be better served doing it in real life.

I came across this video entitled Wii Breakfast which shows a group of friends playing a game where you literally have to make breakfast using an ungodly number of Wii controllers. It’s a funny watch, check it out!

I Heart Chaos has come out with theirPeriodic Table of Video Game Characters. Not gonna lie….it’s pretty epic.

This is one of those times when you wished you lived somewhere else. Not California, not New York, not Florida…Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. A Best Buy in Stroudsburg is hosting a huge Resident Evil 5 launch party full of awesomeness which includes a staged event with zombies, doctors/medical personnel, extras, and….the US Army?

US Army troops will take place in this staged event full with working guns that will be firing blanks. As you come through the store to pick up your game it will be set up like a disaster area with all of this chaos going on around you and at the end there’s supposed to be a “big scare.”

Drake Cambell, who helped come up with the event, said he went to the local recruiting station to borrow fatigues for some actors. “I asked for fatigues and they said why don’t we just show up,” he said. “So we upped the ante.”

There better be video!