Gaming, Health & Wellness, Mental Health, Physical Health
It wasn’t so long ago that gaming was a fringe hobby with a negative reputation. In ye olden days, many people thought of gamers as scruffy, unsocialized nerds who lived in their parents’ basements and spent their hours in pursuit of “useless” achievements like high scores. While gaming and those…
Gaming, Health & Wellness, Mental Health
A few weeks ago, we talked about the substantial mental health benefits of journaling and how they can be applied to gaming. Journaling about your gaming experiences can keep you moving forward, remind you of your goals (and help you set some if you don’t have any), and reduce anger…
Have you ever wanted to get a little bit more from your gaming experiences? Maybe you want to track everything you’ve achieved in your favorite games in one place, or maybe you want to see how your rank in a competitive game has progressed over time. Maybe you even struggle…
During the Pokémon Presents video premiere on February 27, fans were treated to the surprise reveal of Pokémon Violet and Pokémon Scarlet, the next generation of main-series Pokémon games. The trailer was brief, but it did show off the three new starter Pokémon and views of a region that many…
Earlier this month, Nintendo announced the return of previous Mario Kart courses in the form of the Booster Course Pass, an optional DLC that will add 48 additional courses to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe over the next two years. The move came as an initial shock to fans, many of…
A few weeks ago, Apex Legends released Mad Maggie, its latest playable character, alongside season 12. Like with all new characters, Maggie has been extremely popular since her launch, with her pick rate sitting at 7.8% across all players as of this writing. While I haven’t tried playing as this hard-talking Salvonian…
It’s hard to believe that Valentine’s Day is already almost here. Stores have had their pink hearts and candy out since New Years, but if you’re like me, you just kind of ignored it until you realized Hey, Valentine’s Day is actually here. People may complain that the holiday has been…
Career & Industry, Exercise, Physical Health
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Remember when everyone was playing Wii Sports? It wasn’t just gaming’s usual audience: parents, grandparents, and all sorts of people who had never been interested in games were able to get into swinging the Wii Remote like a golf club or tennis racket. The Wii was designed to be family-friendly and to…
Career & Industry, Physical Health
Like many gamers, I’ve had a lot of thumb and wrist pain over the course of my life. When I played console games for hours at a time as a kid, particularly control stick-intensive ones like Smash Bros. and Mario Kart, my fingers would often be sore afterwards. The cycle…
