Boy gamers are different to girls
PLAYING VIDEO GAMES brings out the territorial beast in men, according to a new study, which claims that this is the reason men love gaming.
Boffins at Stanford University hooked 11 young men and 11 young women up to magnetic resonance machines and made them play a game in which a successful action resulted in gaining territory. The men's brains apparently went berserker with joy whenever they captured any territory, whereas women were noticeably under-whelmed by the experience.
Scientists have put this down to male brains pumping reward feelings through men's bodies whenever they feel they have done something noteworthy (like capturing virtual computer territory apparently).
The part of the brain pegged by researchers as the region linked to reward and addiction, the mesocorticolimbic centre, is apparently to blame for the phenomenon. Three structures in particular, the nucleus accumbens, amygdala and orbitofrontal cortex, are purportedly the main cause for all the bizarre grunting and frantic finger flexing emanating from living rooms the world over.
Allan Reiss, who headed the study explained "I think it is fair to say that males tend to be more intrinsically territorial," perhaps sexistly adding "It does not take a genius to figure out who historically are the conquerors and tyrants of our species. They are the males." Try telling your wife that, we dare you.
But not to worry, men can always defend themselves with the fact that another study, conducted in Penn State university, reckons that gaming can actually improve a player's mood and enhance creativity, so it can't be that bad after all. µ
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How about gaming for shopping? Or how about nest building? This is just toooo easy................the places I could go with this!
If this article is saying that women don't care about dominate and ownings things(namely us men), clearly the blokes who conducted this test aren't married.
Great...more posts lending to Psychiatry....

So if a guy exists who is not happy with capturing territory, they are classified as a girl and must take some drug to "undo the damage?"

There are two types of "enjoyment" people have in games...

Either a person has fun from playing the game and accomplishing the purpose of the game itself.......which is more in tune with many people....as well as people being happy they can play with other players....

Then comes "technical enjoyment" which I fall into....This being that I am happy and have fun when I see everyone in a server having low ping...All the textures and graphics aligned properly..Great server response time and configuration. Not to mention when anti-cheat works propertly and everything is patched correctly. I feel accomplished when people can enjoy a game and I walk around a server shooting the breeze and checking that people are OK...

Both types of people are very important in a game. People like me go on Bug hunts in Online games and report the most to companies.......and although playing the game itself is fun, its more fun when we find a bug and help out a situation.

I love how people have no life, so they target gamers since if they target anything real out there like education, the government or medicine...those groups will get on their cases and destroy their pensions or get them fired...or sued.....so psychiatrists can ONLY TARGET those groups that have no defense, while they take bribes and are scared of analizing the real groups that impact our lives...who have the greatest problems...

"Let analize children and DISCOVER THINGS and ignore the fact that we aren't analizing any soldiers in IRAQ or the government that sent them there, but we care more about how a bunch of kids react to a video game than the psychological mind and profile of those leading us"
they should have also tested a popular lifestyle and relationships simulator - they would have got acute boredom from males and pointless satisfaction from females!

...but then, when did statistics ever reflect the truth??
That's why they looked for responses to "capturing territory". My wife plays CRPGs as much as I do. When we play together online, we have equal fulfillment in finishing quests, helping other players, defeating tough mobs and wish that computing power allowed the world to be less static such that we'd see the impact of our quest results, whereas players who had not done the quest would see no impact.

Maybe I take a bit more glee at taking out the elite mob, while she's just happy she survived, but overall this isn't about territory, but exploring a world and interacting with people. The reason we do it in LOTRO instead of Second Life is that we prefer high fantasy to mundane reality.

I think the Stanford researchers just prefer mundane bias when setting up their experiments.
They tried to make me to go to the mesocorticolimbic centre, and I said: 
"You won't know, know, know.
I won't go, go, go."
Lurve Is a Losing Game
I told ya I gon’ change the game
Where my party, pa’ party party pa’ party people at?

Note from my inner parrot:
Please excuse Evils' nucleus accumben - he's stuffy from the weather, and is runneth overed.
His whole Emo-core has been picked apart by the raven Daily Wail! He never threw a karmic Stone, or carried a knife. He can't impress his mates with a helicopter or yacht ride. But crikey, he can be a huge benefit to street-corner culture! As soon as he learns how to play an Amygdala, he could be busking down front of the Orbitofrontal Cortex just in time for the S.W.A.T. wildlive to arrive.

The Inquirer is a game, right?