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  Jai Poke Manic | October 22, 2007
  Wow Iam touched
  
  Thats petty cool
  Even though you can hurt your eyes from to many hours but yeah that is an amazing discovery for kids to learn.
  Maybe we should hold a Protest against the limit of our time on computer games.Marc Prensky should be the leader of the protest
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  Final Blade | October 22, 2007
  I known about this since i was 6 years old, playing Jurassic park and Doom on my Sega genesis and 32 bit add on, Oh those were the days. My first system ever for Christmas i was so innocent then...pretty much all of us were.
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  Catboy14 | October 22, 2007
  I remember the Jurassic park game... I never could beat it. But yeah this is old news. I have a LOT of strategy and adventure games and I think I have benefited greatly from them.
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  Play ISDF | October 22, 2007
  Yay for a smart guy who gets attention saying that video games are good!
  
  Boo for the Bushman guy saying that video games just increase a persons anger and all.
  
  Prensky brings up a good point though. A lot of people that say that games are just violent tools that get kids and all to increase violent behavior and that games also reduce a kids grades ect ect, haven't played games themselves. It brings up something that I just can't help but to think about...how do those people make a decent argument when they have no bloody clue of what their going on about?
  
  Hopefully some more articles such as this will emerge soon and encourage people to stop being asses, try a bloody game or 5, then make an opinion instead of just randomly saying crap they know nothing about.
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  DEZVOUS | October 22, 2007
  Like anything gaming is just fine and definitely beneficial in many ways, like this article points out (although *bleep* fox news as a source), but you have to balance that out with social interaction as well.
  
  I mean gaming teaches you some things but if you're in front of that TV or computer screen all day you're never going to learn those things that actual human social interaction teach you also. Very different environments.
  
  Anyone that would try to argue otherwise, as if gaming put an entirely negative handicap on someones life is simply ignornat and thus should be ignored.
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    Final Blade | October 22, 2007
    Fox News is awesome just not for certain things, like games
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      DEZVOUS | October 22, 2007
      What do you work for Fox news? They're *bleep*ing terrible.
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        Final Blade | October 23, 2007
        Maybe for games, everything else there awesome. Its more reliable than any other new station.
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  Alvaroduck | October 22, 2007
  Take that, Jack Thompson.
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  Mishtram | October 23, 2007
  This is something that people have been looking at for a long time. A lot of people who play video games, even if they aren't "learning", still show increased multi-tasking, planning and analytical abilities as well as, in some cases, learning life skills employers look into.
  
  There are numerous cases out there where men and women write mods or give games out to their students in some form so that they can play the game and learn at the same time. For example, there is everything from mods for Neverwinter Nights which help with people to learn a new language (reminder, what I said before is about the average video game), to others which help people overcome the fear of heights or spiders.
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  Unity | October 26, 2007
  Like sticking a frag in JT's cereal.
  
  It was kind of bluntly obvious when BrainAge came out that Video Games aren't entirely for entertainment, and many many games are focused more on learning. Making more complex games, with history, puzzles, riddles, and other brain-benders may effect kids more than anyone ever thought.
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  KingX2 | November 02, 2007
  I don't doubt it one bit.