SXSWeek 2009: March 13-22
Interactive: March 13-17
Film: March 13-21
Music: March 18-22

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Game System May Help End Trauma Flashbacks (Even from the BCS)

NES_Tetris_Box_Front.jpgA number of health journals have started reporting on a study out of Oxford where subjects suffered less flashbacks the week after watching a terrifying movie if they played Tetris immediately after the viewing. That's right, Tetris is a potential cure for post-traumatic stress disorder.

For those who entered the casual gaming aspect of the
ScreenBurn at SXSW Game Design Challenge, this article should help you hold your head up high against all those story-hyped console games. I wonder what Dr. Julie Ratner's panel on
Funologists would to say about that?