Playing games may keep your mind agile

It's about time someone did a study like this!

Making games is probably quite good on that noggin too. do an article about that? god knows where the research is. but making games myself has taught me loads about problem solving and that sort of crap.

a better study would be to compare it to other activities like reading a book or working a register for 8 hours a day, or watching the Discovery Channel versus Spike, or painting, or gardening. I think a study like that would have more merit.

I quoted Newton in my Physics A-level... and failed.

I quoted simple harmonic motion in my Maths A-level... and failed. (Dead Or Alive wasn't released back in 1991; might have had a chance if it had been.)

I quoted from Japanese video game titles in my GCSE Japanese Oral, and mentioned Piro and Largo from MegaTokyo in the written sections... and got an A*/A.

I'm also learning Swedish as I have friends over there, and want to understand the lyrics of Gyllene Tider.

Suck on that, Thumper.

I'm glad they added that last line

"Of course, the excuse that you're investing in your future might not hold much weight when you're trying to justify a mammoth World of Warcraft session, but it's nice to see new research bringing out the good in games."

April 17, Brain Age.
May 30, Big Brain Academy.


That's some mind sharpening!

maybe video games just appeal to smarter people!

maybe video games just appeal to smarter people!

do you honestly believe that #7............. because if i hear the mindless rabble of a madden induced child talk about what makes a game good i might go crazy.

at#3 that's a much better study, and discovory channel sucks now ever since "monster garage" ruined the channel and caused 28 other things based on crude analysis made too appeal to the brain dead.........

i dont like tv no more except for PBS.

studies like this have been done before. remember reading about one in time magazine. i always pointed to that study to my family when they criticized me for always playing games...

and why do we need studies to tell us this sort of thing? isn't any problem solving beneficial to you?

I'm bilingual and play games! Am I super intelligent?

Response to #9:
Get your fill of PBS now FLCLjazz (cool name: that is a great show with a great soundtrack), it looks like the next part of the neo-con agenda is to squelch it completely now that they learned that they can't bully it into being another propaganda machine for them. The 2007 budget is going to flush PBS down the tubes.

Response to article:
Yes it's about time. Reps from both political parties have been complete d-bags; trying to censor games and convince people that there are no edifying properties to them. As if teens need less outlets, when the real problem is that they don't have enough. These politicians (and I'm talking about the jerks on the left and the right) are so full of it that it's hard to tell if they really stupid enough to believe that there wont be any deviant behavior from teens if the only violent images they were exposed to were from the news.