Daily Viz from Visual Loop – 05/06/2012

For a huge part of the Gaming community, spending hours facing impossible challenges in front of a computer or TV has nothing to do with ‘just fun’. Science tries to uncover the true measure of impact gaming has in our brains, but even without that full knowledge, it’s obvious that playing video games is something far from being ‘bad’. Today’s selection, courtesy of Gamehouse, Lumosity, Frugal Dad, Online Universities and OnlineUniversity.net, shows a few  different dimensions of the impact Games cause in our lifes – and many might be surprised with some of the information presented here today.

Women Who Game

Game Over For 5 Video Game Stereotypes

Gaming is Good for You

The Neurology of Gaming

Gamers Get Girls

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Incandescent Sun

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This story written by Tiago Veloso

Tiago Veloso works as an Independent Content Curator and Marketing/Branding Consultant, with a confessed addiction for everything web 2.0, besides design, photography, arts and green politics, with which he fills his Twitter stream (@TSSVeloso). He lives in Brazil, and started the Visual Loop project as a way of collecting and sharing the immensity of infographics and other forms of data-visualization spread throughout the internet.