Study: Car Racing Games Lead to Bad Driving

Reuters reports a study performed by German researchers that investigates whether playing racing games can promote risk taking in actual road traffic situations.

The researchers found that the frequency of playing racing games was positively associated with competitive driving, obtrusive driving, and car accidents; a negative association with cautious driving was also observed.

"Driving actions in these games often include competitive and reckless driving, speeding and crashing into other cars or pedestrians, or performing risky stunts with the vehicle. In short, most actions in racing games imply a very high risk of having an accident or severe crash in a highly realistic virtual road traffic environment," the researchers wrote.

Do you think that PGR or Forza have affected your driving at all? If so, did playing these video games get you into car accidents?
Study: Car Racing Games Lead to Bad Driving - Xbox

Why do my games cost so much?

Many people have been complaining about the $60 price tag for next-gen console games. Forbes takes time to explain why.Art/Design $15Programming and Engineering $12 Retail $ 12Console owner fee $7Marketing $4Market Development Fund $3Manufacturing Costs, Packaging $3Licensing $3Publisher Profit $1Distributor: $1Corporate Costs: $.20Hardware Development < $.03Total: About $61 dollars



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Final Fantasy needs Xbox 360

Hironobu Sakaguchi believes Xbox 360 release could lead to continued success for the franchise "I feel that the Final Fantasy series should come to Xbox 360 as well. This is wise. It makes so much sense to me...it has so much potential in North America and in Europe. So there's a great chance for the series to succeed on 360 as well."



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Make your own Xbox 360 achievements

This cool little web application automatically makes an Xbox 360 achievement for you. All you have to is type in what you want the achievement to say and Wha-La, you can achieve anything you want! Post your own in the blogs comments or in the Digg comments :)



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Finalized Halo 3 Box Art Images!

Earlier today, we brought you the first pictures of the Halo 3 Limited Edition as well as new images of the Legendary Edition. Now, Microsoft has officially announced the three editions that have been listed by game retailers for the last couple of months. read more

Sony CEO: "Wii is wonderful!"

Also saying in the interview "If we fail, it is because we positioned PS3 as the Mercedes of the video game field." read more

Xbox Live's Major Nelson : Show #217 The one about GDC, Sony Home and the WWE

This week’s show:
Xbox news
GDC reacap
Sony Home
Interview: Michael Wolf Games for Windows PR and Aaron Greenberg (Xbox PR) and I discuss Sony Home
Interview: Ashley Massaro, WWE Diva and Playboy Cover Model
Name the Game
Xbox 101
Gadgets
…and much more!
Xbox Live's Major Nelson

Armored Core 4: 360 vs PS3 comparison

With this Tuesday's release of Armored Core 4 on both the Xbox 360 and PS3, GameTrailers decided to put together a visually informative graphics comparison video. After watching their comparison, one thing that is noticeably different between the 360 and PS3 versions is that the 360 version is much darker where as the PS3 version is more white washed. Sometimes the 360 version is way too dark, but sometimes the PS3 version looks like a snow storm ... it's a give and take. Though, we feel the two versions are nearly identical in some respect, we fully expect someone to pick apart each frame to see which version does better lighting, textures, and anti-aliasing. Watch the video above and tell us which version you think looks better. Don't worry, if you like the PS3 version better we won't ban you from our site ... yet.
Armored Core 4: 360 vs PS3 comparison - Xbox 360 Fanboy

4 images of Mercenaries 2

Pandemic unveils four new screenshots of Mercenaries 2 via its official website. Screenshots are a bit dirty, but the game still looks pretty. Mercenaries 2 is still planned to be released somewhere this year on Xbox 360 and PS3
4 images of Mercenaries 2 - Xboxyde