games are good for you

no, really.

the latest piece of evidence comes the Department of Psychology at the University of Rochester in the US, and concerns eyesight, specifically visual acuity and first-person shooters. Two researchers examined a group of non-gamers; gave half of the group Tetris, and the other half Unreal Tournament, and thested their visual acuity at the beginning and end of the project.

The study found that those playing Unreal Tournament had a 20% improvement in their visual acuity scores at the end of the one month study; the Tetris players had no significant increase.

So in fact, the title of this post is misleading: not all games are good for you; it's violent video games that are good for you. How about them apples?