Archive for May, 2008
Age of Conan: First impressions
The highly anticipated MMORPG from FunCom, Age of Conan has finally released this week. I bought a box this week-end and have been able to test it. Here I deliver my first impressions.
First impression about graphics: they are absolutely stunning. The world is amazingly beautiful and provide a great sense of immersion. The dark spirit [...]
Blood and Agression in Violent Video Games
In a recent paper Barletta, Harris and Bruey reported 2 experimental studies (in the experimental social psychology tradition) exploring the effect of amount of blood on agression, feeling of agressivity and physiological arousal (heart-beat rates). Following the General Agression Model (GAM), they hypothesized that the amount of blood present in a video game should [...]
