So you’ve exhausted Portal 2‘s single player mode, listened to all the commentary nodes and completed the co-op campaign. There’s nothing left for you to do unless you wait to see what the community cooks up. But why should we have to wait? You know what won’t wait? Science. Science is always moving. If science stopped moving, do you know where we’d be? Dead. That’s where.

Another study has been released claiming children who are classified as being “addicted” to videogames are at higher risk of development some sort of mental illness in their lifetime. This study was conducted on 3,000 school children in Singapore over the past two years.

As time passes and computer power increases, more and more tasks are performed by machines. A computer’s ability to do huge calculations in no time and also to perform with precision time and time again make them ideal for a number of areas where humans wouldn’t be up to the task. Even though we are clearly surpassed in certain situations, the human mind is still an awesome tool which can perform with amazing results in certain situations

One of these situations has been adapted into a game and is already proving a huge success.

The game is called Foldit and it deals with the internal structure of proteins, some of the most important building blocks of life. The game was developed at the University of Washington (US) and in it, players try to solve different puzzles that represent how a real protein molecule would behave. By manipulating the structure of these molecules, players earn points for discovering stable configurations.

During Comic Con 2008, many games and comics were featured. And who wouldn’t want to attend a special preview of today’s most talented directors and animators create independent film masterpieces. The Comic-Con International Independent Film Festival consisted of movies that fell into seven categories: action/adventure, animation, comics-oriented, documentary, humor/parody, horror and science fiction/fantasy. On July 27, 2008, the top films in each category were announced and awarded.

This year’s Comic-Con International: Independent Film Festival are…

ScienceDaily reports that men are more liable to get rewarding feelings from videogames than women, according to an imaging study conducted by the Stanford University School of Medicine. This supposedly may help explain why males are more likely to become hooked on videogames than females.

Analysis of the data showed significant activity in the mesocorticolimbic centers (associated with reward and addiction) of all the subjects’ brains. But the men’s mesocorticolimbic centers were more…