The Mysterious Case of Michelle Casey’s Vanishing Weekend

By Michelle Casey on September 5th, 2010

I love casual PC games (surprise surprise) so I often find myself using gaming lingo in my day to day banter, even when conversing with friends and family who most likely don’t understand the references at all and probably just think that I “talk funny”.

Nevertheless, if you’re reading this blog post then I’m guessing that it’s with a sympathetic gamer’s eye, and that if I say that sometimes, come Saturday or Sunday, I seem to encounter “The Mysterious Case of Michelle Casey’s Vanishing Weekend”, you  know I’m not talking about the latest Hidden Object release, but about my actual weekend.

Some weeks are such a drag. You’re so busy with work, obliging a neighbor, colleague or friend with precious chunks of your time listening to whatever it is they need you to listen to, grocery shopping, cooking, cleaning, doing the family thing, calling tradesmen, phone companies and other pesky people whom you occasionally rely on to fix this and that, etc.

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Playing casual games makes you smarter!

By Michelle Casey on July 29th, 2010

Good news for casual game lovers:  Now there’s scientific proof that playing casual games is more than just a fun pastime – turns out it’s actually good for us!

According to a recent study, Casual Games Make You Smarter, conducted by East Carolina University’s Psycho physiology Lab, playing certain types of casual games – such as sophisticated Match Three games, certain types of Puzzle and Arcade games and even Word games – may have a positive effect on cognition.

What is cognition?
Cognitive function refers to a person’s ability to process thoughts. Cognition primarily refers to things like memory, the ability to learn new information, speech, and reading comprehension.

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