Anyone with a car and passengers has had that conversation where the back seat (or front passenger seat) driver insists you pull over and ask someone for directions. It always happens.

Well apparently video games, namely shooters, improve decion making and ultimately make you a better driver who is less likely to get lost with that irritating cargo.

CoD fans with partners rejoice! Oh wai...

Researchers at New York's University of Rochester took a group of 18 to 25-year-old non game players and split them into two groups.

Half played 50 hours of shooting games such as Call Of Duty 2 and Unreal Tournament and the other half played 50 hours of slow-moving strategy game The Sims 2.

They were then given various tests, such as deciding whether a group of dots on a screen was moving right or left.

The research team found the first group was 25 per cent better at decision-making.

Euphoric via news.com.au »