A Game A Day Luke A.
Video games as they are defined are electronic interfaces that we can interact with. While they get a lot of bad press they have good things too.
Benefits of Video games Video games have many bad effects but they also have some good ones. One of the good effects is that you can help with traumatic events. Tetris therapy is a new method that is being prescribed to trauma patients. It helps with flashbacks to traumatic events through the shapes competing with the space of the event in your brain. Gaming can also help with dyslexia. Action games make you pay attention to a lot of things at once. This can help with dyslexia because Oxford university says that dyslexia is more of an attention disorder. Because games make us shift attention then it can strengthen attention in people with dyslexia. Along with shifting your attention you also have to shift your vision this can strengthen your eyesight. They can also help you deal with pain. people who played video games reported pain being more bearable or they forgot about the pain altogether.
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games are viewed as addictive and lazy. Many studies show that games do produce traits like aggressiveness. Many people believe that videogames are bad and should not be played by children because they may produce those traits. This makes gaming stereotypes of angry and socially isolated people. This can scare people away from games because they are worried about that happening to the player. This can create a stereotype of a socially isolated gamer. Now many gamers are playing games on their phones. In the game Clash Of clans you can create small clans of people. You lead the clan deciding who to trust and what to do. They play this game with thousands of people. This can challenge the idea of the socially isolated gamer. Games used to be very useless to education this idea is still around but video games have evolved. many games can be educational and can get kids interested in history.