Visual tricks can play with your expectations just as cleverly as verbal ones.

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It is here, in the visual cortex, that artists play their games.

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When she was 15, Fu founded a non-profit group, Visual Arts and Music for Society, that organizes high school volunteers to play music, do art projects and perform in homeless shelters, hospitals, orphanages and senior residences.

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People who play video games, for example, have been found to process complex visual information more quickly.

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It doesn't let you play three sides with distinct strategic advantages, like StarCraft, and it lacks the visual punch of Myth II.

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Available to download for free from Google Play, Libon will now offer Android users free calls, smart messaging and personalized visual voicemail on Android as well as iOS. Libon also announced version 2.2 of its iOS Libon app.

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