Benefits of Gaming
Benefits of Gaming #014 – They make old people happy
I’m always a sucker for old people studies. Some clever folks at North Carolina State Uni suggest that older adults who play video games report greater emotional functioning than those who don’t play. The team studied a bunch of 63-year-old-and-beyond people, looked at how often they played video games, and compared that to various aspects of [...]
Benefits of Gaming #013 – They can handle menial tasks
Video games can be very repetitive. Even some of the best games are made up of the same few elements, perhaps just presented in different combinations. It could be endless amounts of running, shooting, jumping, collecting coins, speaking to friendly forest people you encounter on your journey, etc. Just over and over again. There can be [...]
Benefits of Gaming #012 – Games can improve your vision. Eye know, right?
Pffft, and here our parents were worried that staring at the television would give us square eyes, while all this time we should have been staring even more to improve our vision! Okay, maybe those are not the exact facts, but bear with me. There have been numerous studies suggesting that playing video games can [...]
Benefits of Gaming #011 – They’re happy with less than “a la carte”
Gamers are extremely easy to satisfy when it comes to food. I came across this delightfully 90s-looking site called Gamer Chow that asks visitors to vote between different types of food in order to “pick the best and most popular food for gamers”. According to the site, delivered pizza is the hot favourite. Well, considering that every time [...]
Benefits of Gaming #010 – They’ll always try to save the princess
Chilvary is not dead. Not while we have gamers, anyway. So many video games are built around being the hero and saving the princess from the baddies. We have Mario and Princess Peach, Link and Princess Zelda, and heck, even Sir Cucumber and Princess Tomato. Having grown up around video games like this, chivalry comes as [...]
Benefits of Gaming #009 – It’s an escape from reality
This hilarious comparison of video games vs. real life from Dorkly, below, actually highlights one of the very reasons why people play video games: to escape from the difficulties of the real world. When playing video games, you get to choose what you look like, what your strengths are… in these virtual worlds, you are in control. [...]
Benefits of Gaming #008 – They’re team players
Video games have long encouraged collaboration and cooperation. Even from my early days of playing on the SNES, I much preferred the multiplayer games where you got to work together with someone else to fight the big bad bosses. I would always volunteer to play the helper role in Kirby (partly for the teamwork aspect, [...]
Benefits of Gaming #007: You can take as long as you like to get ready
(Image Source: unrealitymag) It has long been identified that females take a long time to get ready. Apologies to those out there who don’t agree with that statement, but I know at least in my case, I often end up with the entire contents of my wardrobe scattered throughout the bedroom in an attempt to [...]
Benefits of Gaming #006 – It’s actually quite social
(Image Source: Fly Girl Gamers) Gamers have long been portrayed as antisocial beings, but this stereotype isn’t all that accurate… at least in some cases, anyway. A study from Nottingham Trent University looked at the social interactions of over 900 MMORPG players, and had some interesting results that could help debunk the current gamer image. [...]
Benefits of Gaming #005 – Gaming may make him more creative
That’s right. And I don’t just mean in thinking of creative excuses for why he needs to play for another hour… teeheehee… A recent study from Michigan State University studied the gaming habits of nearly 500 12 year olds and the relationship this had with their creativity. The study found that of the sample, the [...]
