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Visceral comes through for disabled Dead Space 2 players

Visceral Games is on a bit of a roll when it comes to helping out its gaming community. Last week, a girl named Ashley received an autographed copy of Dead Space 2 and a custom drawing from Visceral after her dog broke her Dead Space 2 disc. Now Visceral Games is hard at work to implement a patch for the PC version of Dead Space 2 in order to assist disabled gamers.

Killzone 3 won’t have clunky controls

A chief complaint about Killzone 2 was its controls. Guerrilla Games implemented a control scheme that was very foreign to just about everyone. The game also had a very weighty and floaty feel to it. Some say the game felt like it had an inherent lag that hindered the single and multiplayer experience. Guerrilla listened to the complaints of fans and completely changed the feel of Killzone 3‘s controls.

Study debunks belief that playing with your Wii can lead to aggression

Confirming something most of us already know, a new study coming out of Villanova University indicates that motion controls do not increase aggression in people who play violent video games.

Certainly inspired by the controversy controversy surrounding the Wii release of Manhunt 2, a study titled “An examination of psychoticism and motion capture controls as moderators of the effects of violent video games” (Patrick M. Markey and Kelly Scherera, 2008, Department of Psychology, Villanova University) examined the “hostility and aggressive thoughts” in individuals while they played Manhunt 2 as well as Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08