Eight Ways to Hurt Yourself Playing Video Games [Gaming]

+ 0
expand close

Summary: When I was talking with the SteelSeries guys about their gear , one thing they were serious about was that gaming is a sport. I scoffed. But, we've shown you how to work out with nothing gaming gear and now PC Mag catalogs eight ways to hurt...  Click to expand...

wiimotechest.jpgWhen I was talking with the SteelSeries guys about their gear, one thing they were serious about was that gaming is a sport. I scoffed. But, we've shown you how to work out with nothing gaming gear and now PC Mag catalogs eight ways to hurt yourself gaming—like any other athletic activity. Besides sore limbs via Wiitis, there's Rock Band Hand from too much drumming/strumming, WASD wrist for hardcore PC gamers (and bloggers), Burning Bladder for WoWites, and um, something that vaguely resembles epilepsy for puzzle gamers. Not featured, however, is the most notorious of Wiinjuries:

Getting the shit beat out of you by your uncoordinated friend. Do you guys have any crazier gaming-induced injuries? [PC Mag]


 
close

This Week in Rojo [The best of the blogosphere every week.]

Rojo: Digg Stars; Google Matrix; ObamaSpace

 Diggbait anyone? The Wall Street Journal surveyed who’s who when it comes to influencing social-networking sites like digg and Reddit, and finds just 30 of 900,000 registered digg users are responsible for a third of stories on its home page, blogs Business 2.0.

» Subscribe to the This Week in Rojo newsletter