Picture a gamer, someone who spends countless hours immersed in one of those online role-playing alternate realities. And what do you see? Is it a physically fit female closer to 40 than 14? If not, you may need to rethink your assumptions about geek

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(86) / 评论(0) 分类 Scientific American(十二)月

Online gamers control characters in a virtual world UK online gamers are on red alert as they prepare for the arrival of the Cyberathlete Professional League World Tour. The tour, which takes in nine countries on four continents, is the first of its

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Most Americans would never put an activity like video gaming in the same group with a physically demanding sport like football or basketball. But gaming has reached such a high level of competition that some schools are now offering what are being ca

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Pack your skis to Torino for the Olympics, your cleats to Germany for the World Cup, and don't forget your joystick to Monza Italy for the World Cyber Games. In October 2006 the world will take part i

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Scientists can now include online gaming in their problem-solving arsenal. Because game players seem to have provided an answer to a scientific questio

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. In 2005, Steven Johnson wrote a book called Everything Bad is Good For You. He proposed that popular culture is actually making us smarter. Because thing

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今天我们要学的词是old school。 Old school, 可不是老学校的意思,而是指老派的,守旧的。 He opened an old-school barbershop amid all the modern hair salons, 在现代发廊随处可见的今天,他却开了一家传统的理

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Online gamers enjoy a concert on the BBC's virtual island The line between the real world and online virtual worlds is becoming increasingly blurred with gamers spending real money to buy virtual commodities and even real estate in digital worlds. W

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Gal Gamers Geekier Than Guys A study in the Journal of Communication found that women who engage in a role-playing game online actually spend more time in the alternate reality than the guy players do. Karen Hopkin reports Picture a gamer, someone wh

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There's no solid evidence that video games are bad for people, and they may be positively good 没有任何可靠证据证明电玩游戏有损于人们的身心健康,相反他们或许还能发挥一

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AS IT IS 2016-07-13 Pokemon Go Craze Sweeps US Pokemon Go热潮席卷美国 This is Whats Trending Today. Pikachu, where are you? That is on the minds of millions of people in the U.S. who downloaded the Pokemon Go smartphone app after it launched Ju

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Gamers love to be attached to awe-inspiring missions to human planetary-scale stories. 游戏玩家喜欢依附在那些关乎人类星际故事的威严任务里面。 So, just one bit of trivia that helps put that into perspective: 你所做的任何

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The game industry is developing consoles that are low energy and that work with the wireless phone networks instead of broadband Internet so that gamers all over the world,particularly in India, China, Brazil, can get online. 游戏产业一直在不停

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The average young person today in a country with a strong gamer culture will have spent 10,000 hours playing online games by the age of 21. 在一个玩游戏氛围很强的国家,当今的年轻人在其21岁前,平均每人花费在网络游戏上

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I'm Jane McGonigal. I'm a game designer. I've been making games online now for 10 years, and my goal for the next decade is to try to make it as easy to save the world in real life as it is to save the world in online games. Now, I have a plan for th

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The line between the real world and online virtual worlds is becoming increasingly blurred with gamers spending real money to buy virtual commodities and even real estate in digital worlds. Welcome to the world of MMOGs, Massive Multiplayer Online Ga

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Lindsay: So if you buy a game, how long does it take you to beat the game? One year or fifteen hours or what? Jake: Well, maybe the shortest ones are only about six hours but it all depends on how much you're playing it. If it's something I really li

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大家有没有玩过最近很火的游戏旅行青蛙?连《纽约时报》都报道了这款游戏在中国的盛况。今天Jenny和Adam要和大家一起来读一读旅行青蛙的报道。 A few short weeks after its release, a Japanese mobile

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Some of the highlights were things like The Terminator, 其中有一些让我引以为荣的,像《终结者》 Aladdin, the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles. 《阿拉丁》还有《英雄神龟》(《忍者神龟》的英版名字) Because I was f

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Lindsay: So if you buy a game, how long does it take you to beat the game? One year or fifteen hours or what? Jake: Well, maybe the shortest one are only about six hours but it all depends on how much you're playing it. If it's something I really lik

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