Mon.Jul 11, 2011

Kapp Notes

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Staying Sharp with Video Games

Kapp Notes

In an interesting study, a slightly older group of 40 non-gamer adults in the Forty Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, community, with an average age of 69, was randomly divided into two groups. The lucky group was asked to play the real-time strategy game, Rise of Nations Gold Edition (RON). RON combines the speed of real-time gaming and the complexity of turnbased strategy games.

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