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Video game playing found beneficial for the brain

Playing the Super Mario 64 video game causes increased size in brain regions responsible for spatial orientation, memory formation and strategic planning as well as fine motor skills, a new study conducted at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Charité University Medicine St. Hedwig-Krankenhaus has found.

The positive effects of video gaming may also be useful in therapeutic interventions targeting psychiatric disorders.

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DestinyHeroDoomlord3822d ago

No doubt, but physically I see no benefit

FlyingFoxy3822d ago

There was another article saying it's good for better controlling your dreams (supposedly) as well as increasing reaction times in the real world. So physically it would help then, even if only a little bit.

Thehyph3822d ago

I read a good study about this back in 2006 or so.

Competitive gameplay has been found to increase alpha waves in the brain just like in competitive sports.

I thoroughly believed it at the time because I was doing league play for cs1.6 then. If you didn't get psyched and bring your A-game then the whole team suffers.

DestinyHeroDoomlord3822d ago

I can see hand eye co-ordination, but like you said only a little. Since it doesn't actually build your muscles (could be wrong).

Stoppokingme3822d ago

It's called lucid dreaming, and it's awesome.

Thehyph3822d ago

@Destiny

You do retain muscle memory though. The more you practice at something specific, the faster you can react to it. Whether or not that translates into a quicker coordination versus random events: I don't know.

hay3822d ago

Strongly improves hand-eye coordination, which improves your physical self-awareness, precision, reflexes, creates new synaptic links with each new game played, world visited, story lived. Makes brain pretty much used to creating new neural paths. It allows you to simulate alternatives, therefore be more aware of the future, interactions and so on.
Real life physical benefits are pretty impressive.

ninjahunter3821d ago

I read something in regards to high teir Strategic, and fighting game players having reaction times 1/5th the length of the standard person.

However, it seems that it takes a lot of training to get there, and the standard butt sitter wont see similar gains.

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NarooN3822d ago

Play DDR. You'll see a nice physical benefit then, lol.

DestinyHeroDoomlord3822d ago

Me and my one friend played it religiously when I was a bit younger, after the first weeks pain we definitely saw the benefit haha

DestinyHeroDoomlord3822d ago

When I'm talking about no physical benefits, I'm referring to the standard 'sit and play'

ElementX3822d ago

Next week video games will be found to cause cancer. Seriously there are conflicting reports every other week

rezzah3822d ago

I assume because the effects are not singular, meaning some changes will be bad while others good.

ElementX3822d ago

How about the back and forth arguing about violence and video games?

rezzah3822d ago

That is perception of individuals. Regardless of something being stated good or bad there will always be people who argue the opposite.

Imonaboat13822d ago (Edited 3822d ago )

I made an informative speech about benefit of video games once. Got an A and the professor said it was one of the best speeches.

And yes video games can have both physical and mental benefits.

TheEnigma3133822d ago

Games are good for the brain. Try playing a game like Braid. Your problem solving skill will be greatly increased after beating that one.

Ares84HU3822d ago

You won't see this on FOX news.

OC_MurphysLaw3822d ago

Sadly I doubt many news stations will do anything with this...

obelix013822d ago

But you would see a news special by a stupid blonde telling everyone how video games are destroying Americas youth.

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Razer Kishi Ultra Review - Full Size Fun

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Ranking the Devil May Cry Series

VGChartz's Mark Nielsen: "Upon finally finishing Devil May Cry 5 recently - after it spent several years on my “I’ll play that soon” list - I considered giving it a fittingly-named Late Look article. However, considering that this was indeed the final piece I was missing in the DMC puzzle, I decided to instead take this opportunity to take a look back at the entirety of this genre-defining series and rank the entries. What also made this a particularly tempting notion was that while most high-profile series have developed fairly evenly over time, with a few bumps on the road, the history of Devil May Cry has, at least in my eyes, been an absolute roller coaster, with everything from total disasters to action game gold."

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VersusDMC38m ago

First to last for me...3,4,5,1,2.

Friendlygamer16m ago

3,1,4,5 to me, never played 2. 5 gameplay is amazing but level design was really disappointing to me, just a bunch of plain arenas, the story felt like a worse written rehash of the 3rd and the charater models looked weird ( specially the ladies ). Another problem with 5 was that there was not enough content for 3 charaters so I could never really familiarize with any of them

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Unicorn Overlord is a tactical RPG masterpiece

Vanillaware's tactical role-playing game Unicorn Overlord is a beautiful mix of old mechanics and new-age graphics, with over 65 unique recruitable characters and a rich storyline.

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