Video games are always getting a bad rap. They’re too violent. They make you lazy. They make you stupid. Staring at screens is bad for your eyes. You’ll never get a girlfriend.
But those are lies. Video games are none of those things well, maybe some of them are and they can actually help improve your life, if you’re willing to sit down and play them. In fact, video games are particularly useful as learning tools. “They offer high-intensity elements that your brain likes. They get your endorphins going and are like sugar, energizing your brain and keeping you engaged. Plus, well-designed games feature dynamic difficulty adjustment, which means that they get harder as your skills improve.
3. Super Monkey Ball makes you a better surgeon
Laparoscopic surgery also known as minimally invasive surgery is not your average surgery. It requires extreme precision, as all operations are made through a tiny incision, and surgeons have to use monitors to magnify the operating tools. Specifically Super Monkey Ball, Silent Scope, and Star Wars Racer Revenge increases joint lubrication in hands, clears neuron paths, and increases dopamine levels, which improves motor control.
While you’re probably not going to be performing laparoscopic surgery any time soon, these games may help you with tasks that require motor skills and hand-eye coordination, such as playing sports. And if you’re a lifelong gamer, you may want to consider becoming a surgeon.
2. Call of Duty 2 makes you a faster, smarter decision-maker
Take a look around the web, and you’ll find tons of “brain-training” games such as Lumosity lumosity.com,and Cogmed, cogmed.com which purport to improve memory and brain power. But whether these brain-training games actually make you smarter is up for debate. So if you’re a die-hard Lumosity fan, you may or may not be getting smarter and you may or may not be able to retain that intelligence after you stop playing the games. But if you’re playing action video games, you’re probably improving a different part of your brain the part that makes quick, accurate decisions. Who needs to make quick, accurate decisions? CEOs, coaches, captains, surgeons, generals, and managers.
Below, four reasons you should be spending more time playing video games. As if you needed an excuse … Lets countdown..
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| Medal Of Honour |
4. Medal of Honor improves your eyesight
First-person shooters think Counter-Strike, GoldenEye 007, and Call of Duty are often disparaged as overly violent (and even as promoting violence). But ignore the exploding limbs and you’ll find a benefit, Improved visual acuity. Specifically, they had them play Medal of Honor: Airborne for 40 hours over the course of a month. According to the researchers, Like other forms of perceptual training, Medal of Honor requires the detection of objects of varying size and contrast under highly motivating conditions.
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| Super Monkey Ball |
3. Super Monkey Ball makes you a better surgeon
Laparoscopic surgery also known as minimally invasive surgery is not your average surgery. It requires extreme precision, as all operations are made through a tiny incision, and surgeons have to use monitors to magnify the operating tools. Specifically Super Monkey Ball, Silent Scope, and Star Wars Racer Revenge increases joint lubrication in hands, clears neuron paths, and increases dopamine levels, which improves motor control.
While you’re probably not going to be performing laparoscopic surgery any time soon, these games may help you with tasks that require motor skills and hand-eye coordination, such as playing sports. And if you’re a lifelong gamer, you may want to consider becoming a surgeon.
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| Call Of Duty 2 |
Take a look around the web, and you’ll find tons of “brain-training” games such as Lumosity lumosity.com,and Cogmed, cogmed.com which purport to improve memory and brain power. But whether these brain-training games actually make you smarter is up for debate. So if you’re a die-hard Lumosity fan, you may or may not be getting smarter and you may or may not be able to retain that intelligence after you stop playing the games. But if you’re playing action video games, you’re probably improving a different part of your brain the part that makes quick, accurate decisions. Who needs to make quick, accurate decisions? CEOs, coaches, captains, surgeons, generals, and managers.
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| Words with Friend |
1. Words With Friends boosts your social life
Is it possible that the days of gamers being seen as nerdy basement-dwellers who can’t get girlfriends are behind us? We’ll see, but thanks to the casual gaming boom helped along by mobile games and social networking video games now boost your happiness and your social life. People like the challenge of a competitive game, such as Scramble With Friends. But the reward from collaborative games, such as FarmVille 2, where you help people with their farms, also increases happiness levels and creates a connection.
Is it possible that the days of gamers being seen as nerdy basement-dwellers who can’t get girlfriends are behind us? We’ll see, but thanks to the casual gaming boom helped along by mobile games and social networking video games now boost your happiness and your social life. People like the challenge of a competitive game, such as Scramble With Friends. But the reward from collaborative games, such as FarmVille 2, where you help people with their farms, also increases happiness levels and creates a connection.
Although Zynga’s games connect to social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, they’re really mini-social networks in themselves. The Zynga With Friends franchise (which includes Words With Friends, Scramble With Friends, Hanging With Friends, and others) feature chat rooms where you can talk with your opponent—and some users are doing more than just talking. According to a Zynga survey of 100,000 Words With Friends players, 47 percent say they have a crush on someone they’re currently playing the game with, and one out of ten say that the game’s chat room has led directly to a hookup.
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