Hasn't anybody told Fox News that all video games aer the spawn of the debil and that if you ever even heard of Doom your going to shoot up your neighborhood, and eat the brains of your victems?
It's nice to see someone write up an article that's not bad mouthing my favroite pastime.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,72274,00.html
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With the furor over violent games like the wildly successful "Grand Theft Auto" series, the popular answer is the former. However, a handful of researchers are arguing that video games are, in fact, helping kids become smarter and faster than their forebears.
"Video games can enhance certain skills in a child," Texas A&M University professor Steve Dorman told The Aggie Daily. "Students with a high degree of spatial visualization are usually high achievers in math and science."
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