Did you remember your first games like Mario and Sonic ?

For the fisrt time, after Alien vs Predator, 2 hits will challenge themselves in Mario and Sonic at the Olympics Games according to the sega press release.

Old Fashion ? Those battle will be available with the Wii remote. Those events are list here :

• Fencing - Individual epée

• Archery

• Shooting - Skeet

• Gymnastics - Trampoline

• Gymnastics - Vault

• Field - High Jump

• Field - Pole Vault

• Field - Long Jump

• Field - Triple Jump

• Field - Javelin Throw

• Field - Hammer Throw

• Rowing - Single Sculls

• Table Tennis - Singles

• Aquatics - 100m Freestyle

• Aquatics - 4x100m Freestyle

• Track - 110m and 400m Hurdles

• Track - 4x100m Relay

• Track -100m and 400m

You will also find Olympic Trivia, quizzes, mini-games and facts and figures from the Olympics history.

The guardian reports that recently scientists build a new lab where Pac Man is the Hero :

In fact, the scientist create a version of Pac Man in which you can receive electric shock to the hand. This experience is made to study the brain reactions to an iniment danger.

The players need to escape virtual monsters in a close environement. Everytime they get caught by a monster they receive a small electric shock.

The study has been done at the Wellcome Trust centre for neuroimaging at University College London. The report told us that the threat did not activate the prefontal cortex region of the brain which is for complex planning tasks.

But as soon as the virtual predator gets closer, the most primitive part of the brain is activated. This is the periaqueductal gray which is responsible for quick-response survival mechanisms. (fight, flight, freeze reaction)

Deam Mobbs, who leads this study, conclude that the closest the threat is the fatest our primitiv mecanism respond. For him, it gives us less freedom.

Chris Frith, co-autor of the article, said that these observations will help them to understand better related anxiety trouble disorder.

Thanks who ? Thanks to Pac Man ! Now we can understand better what is happening to this gamer :

According to the Yankee Group, the ad market should overome 700 millions dollars in 2010. Nowadays, the advertiser's expanses are about 183 millions dollars. Others forecast are around a billion in 2011. What is not so big in comparaison with the global 45 billion of the video game market.

Some of the media house specialized in video game like Massive Inc. (sold to Microsoft for 200 million dollars), IGA Worlwide and Adscape, have promised an added dollars by sold video games.

We will see if this business model will work...and if the expected benefits will be used in the game quality production or to low their retail prices.

South Town is a new Japanese Room Escape game, all written in Japanese.

Found at Nordinho, via Ragtolin: “the aim of this game is to get a safe’s key. You came to the hotel in a trip with a girl friend. You must hide a work tool in a safe because you didn’t tell her that the purpose of the trip is business…”

Even though the language barrier is here, I’m sure you won’t stay trapped in this hotel room for long!

Enjoy !