...Like comic books of the yesteryears, video games today have become the most popular mode of entertainment among children. With the launch of gaming systems like Playstation, Xbox, Game Cube and Nintendo, more and more children are getting absorbed in the addictive world of video games. The advent of the Internet has brought to the fore online games, creating gaming communities that span over barriers of distance and time.

A recent report has shown that almost 45% of heavy video game players belong to the 6 to 17 year old age group. With an increasing number of video games depicting death and destruction, this has become an area of concern, since young minds are more susceptible to violence. Games like Mortal Combat, Doom, painkiller, Unreal Tournament and Half Life have gory scenes of bloodshed and violence, and are likely to have adverse effects on children. Many studies have related video games to abnormal behavior in children, such as aggression, depression and games addiction.

Perhaps the single most memorable incident that linked video games to violence was the Columbine High Sc...more

Xbox 360 Repair Guide

...Trusting the free information out there on the internet about how to fix your broken Xbox 360 is like trusting random strangers to guide you through a minefield.

When my xbox died a miserable death in the form of the three red light error I took it upon myself to learn everything I could about how to prevent and repair broken xbox 360s.

The short answer on how to avoid getting the three red light error in the first place is to play your xbox in moderation. That's right, actua...more

PS3 Xbox 360 Or Wii

... good thing for the Xbox 360 community with its ability to connect the console to Windows media edition to share your movie , music and picture files also brings the Xbox 360 into the media centre for the home domain. I do feel that this is a good console but there have been many reports of the red ring of death and that they do suffer greatly from overheating problems.

Up to now, we have not mentioned the Wii, now this is a completely new breed of games machine, not focused on great graphics but on superb game play instead. Having owned a Game cube in the past, which was designed to be just a games console and nothing more Nintendo lost out in the first gen race. Now we have a new runner in the race called the Wii and boy its storming a head in the sales race. This little gem came from nowhere to be the top seller out of the next gen consoles but what has made in so popular?

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A Look at the Xbox 360

...at deal of its success to the hugely successful online capabilities. The new Xbox 360 will continue with the online feature and develop it even further. Xbox 360 will offer two tiers of online function, silver and gold. With silver being a basic package for users to connect and play online, and gold offering other services such as additional downloads and content.

Microsoft has also provided additional resources for their new gaming console. The Xbox 360 will have the ability to operate as a general media centre, with the ability to stream media directory from a PC running Windows Media Player, as well as other portable devices which are supported by Microsoft.

Below is a full Spec Breakdown of the New Xbox 360

Custom IBM PowerPC-based CPU:
3 symmetrical cores running at 3.2 GHz each
2 hardware threads per core 6 hardware threads total
1 VMX-128 vector unit per core 3 total
128 VMX-128 registers per hardware thread
3 symmetrical cores running at 3.2 GHz each
1 MB L2 cache

CPU Game Math Performance:
9 billion dot product operations per second

Custom ATI Graphics Processor:
500 MHz
10 MB embedded DRAM
48-way parallel floating-point dynamically-scheduled shader pipelines
Unified shader architecture

Polygon Performance:
500 million triangles per second

Pixel Fill Rate:
16 gigasamples per second fillrate using 4X MSAA

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