Social connection Only 3% of gamers are loners and never play with others, according to the latest Interactive Australia report by Bond University. Many games involve multi-person play, with players either in the same room or connected online. And, says Dr Lawrence Kutner, director of the Harvard Medical Schools Centre for Mental Health and Media and co-author of Grand Theft Childhood: The Surprising Truth About Violent Video Games and What Parents Can Do, games are a topic of conversation that allow kids to build relationships with their peers. "Boys and girls view game playing as a social activity, not an isolating one. For boys, game strategy is a topic of conversation. If you dont play, youre left out of that ubiquitous conversation."
Better vision Video games can give you an eye for detail. Researchers from the University of Rochester found people who spent 30 hours training on action games over a month spotted targets on a cluttered screen 80% of the time; non-gamers managed this only 30% of the time. Allstate, a US insurer currently trialing video games for older drivers, has found that game software can improve visual skills important for safe driving. National Institutes of Health studies have shown the software reduces crash risk by up to 50%.
Brain booster No longer labelled simply as evil time-wasters, video games are now considered a fast-track to a sharper mind. When researchers from Iowa State University studied a group of laparoscopic surgeons, they found those who played video games three or more hours a week were 27% faster and made 37% fewer errors. The surgeons were not playing games specifically designed for them, according to Dr Douglas Gentile, one of the studys authors. "They were whatever off-the-shelf games they had played in the past."
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2. Video games can give you an eye detail.
3. National Institutes of Health studies have shown the software reduces crash risk by 50%.
4. Video games are now considered a fast-track a sharper mind.
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1. Who is a gamer?
2. What is a multi-person play?
3. Game strategy is very important for video games, isnt it?
4. What does the phrase off-the-shelf game mean?
5. How can computer game influence players weight?
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