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Random: Gamers Can Be Pigs, According To Science Share: We know that you spent hours on Wind Waker's Outset Island terrorising the little piggies that roamed freely around the place. We know that you chucked them in the ocean, and off cliffs. We saw everything. Well, the pigs are about to get their revenge, because scientists taught them how to play video games. Scientist researchers at Pennsylvania State University just completed a study in which they wanted to figure out if pigs could be successfully taught to play games, through reward-oriented tasks. Don't worry, the pigs aren't coming f...

Header photo credit: Candace Croney, PSU As some humans still struggle to play video games well, the competition in the gaming sphere has suddenly gotten a little more fierce. Scientists have successfully taught pigs to work arcade-style joysticks in such a way that they can now steer on-screen cursors into walls. Yes, pigs have begun learning basic arcade gaming. Photo credit: Eston Martz, PSU The news comes from a published study in Frontiers in Psychology. Here's a summary of their report: The ability of two Panepinto micro pigs and two Yorkshire pigs (Sus scrofa) to acquire a joystick-ope...