Posts tagged stress

The DS Lite gets repeatedly busted for 'science'

by JC Fletcher (Mar 18th 2008 2:15PM)

Well, maybe about 40 "haha, awesome." A new website called Broken Review puts electronics through a battery of tests (or, rather, the tests are battery) to determine their durability. The first item they experiment on? A poor DS Lite. In the beginning, the tests are simple, everyday situations: how ...

NPD says games help reduce stress, we say Animal Crossing soothes us

by David Hinkle (Dec 12th 2007 5:00PM)

NPD doesn't see fit to provide us just with monthly sales figures, apparently, as they also conduct research in their secret underground bunker. There, beakers full of bright, colorful liquid of an indiscernible nature and men and women in long white coats conduct experiments. Tirelessly ...

We destroy a Blu-ray Disc

by Kyle Orland (Jan 19th 2007 7:05PM)

When we saw via Game|Life that some IGN forums goers had taken steel wool to a Blu-ray disc with no apparent damage, we thought, "we can do better than that." So we gathered up some convenient implements of destruction and saw how our free copy of Talladega Nights would stand up to a ballpoint pen, ...