Gaming's NOT Bad for You

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Here's some more proof that "you can use facts to prove anything that's remotely true." This story at ZDNet reports that people around the world are refuting the Tohoku University study that alleged that video games actually damaged brain development. In countering the argument, one researcher even compared playing games to playing sports, while the European Leisure Software Publishers Association emphasized gaming's social aspects:

Academics at the University of Central Lancashire and at Manchester University recently found that gamers experience the same high levels of concentration and involvement as athletes do. "Through the study, gaming emerges as an increasingly social activity, and gamers spend comparable amounts of time socializing with friends and family," the software association said. "The researchers concluded that 'the stereotype of the computer gamer as someone who spends a large amount of leisure time interacting with technology rather than other people is questionable.'"

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