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Franklin Perry, a 51-year-old, who had a stroke about three weeks ago, is enjoying the interactive possibilities of the wii Nintendo game platform, while regaining his strength after the stroke.

Robbie Winget, an occupational therapist at Ohio State University Medical Center’s Dodd Hall Rehabilitation Hospital in Columbus, believed in the Wii as therapy after playing a game to a friend’s house, and recognized that it could help patients build balance, coordination, endurance and upper and lower body strength.

The hospital has been using the Wii for about four months to help people recovering from strokes and spinal cord or traumatic brain injuries, according to Winget.

But Winget said the Wii will not replace conventional therapy. “It’s one more way to meet specific goals associated with therapy,” he explained.

Meanwhile the Wii is conquering the U.S.A’s hospitals, the Sony Corp’s PlayStation 3 outsold Nintendo Co Ltd’s Wii game console in Japan in November for the first time.

Sony, which launched the consoles a year ago, sold 183,217 PS3 in Japan in the four weeks to November 25, while Wii consoles reached 159,193 .

via Reuters

Festival In Rome

Rethinking Wargames is a participative net art project promoted by Ruth Catlow of which calls for ‘pawns to join forces to defend world peace’. It uses the game of chess to find strategies that challenge existing power structures and their concomitant war machineries.

The website documents and illustrates the technical responses of chess pundits alongside more philosophical and political replies from amateur players. It illustrates alternative games with rules suggested by participants as well as documenting the creation of the online multiplayer game, Activate:3 Player Chess, commissioned by , developed by Ruth with programmer Adrian Eaton.

Ruth Catlow – is an artist who works with networked media. She initiated Furtherfield with Marc Garrett in 1996 and works with him and the Furtherfield community to devise platforms that facilitate artistic collaboration across networks and to initiate and manage projects online and for physical and social spaces including HTTP Gallery. : http://www.furtherfield.org/about.php

Further Critical Approaches to War in Videogame Art

Little green Bag

22 aprile 2007 alle 18:59 — Fonte: repubblica.it

HOME is a 3D environment directly accessible from the playstation menu. Is there a way that a up-bottom platform as Sony is can become a “imagined, created & owned by its residents” world as Second Life is?