IIRC there is a 20 or 25 year study on video games and how they improve brain development~ I read it about a year ago I think and it was saying how even letting your child have just 5 more minutes of playing his or her game can make wonders of improvements~
/me goes back to Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai!~
I've read some stuff about that too~ thoo there are some games that are completely unnecessary XD
don't have much to say about it atm~ unless there's another argument against certain kinds i might~
[MENTION=17020]~SnowAngel~[/MENTION]; Agreed~ I pretty sure not every game is worthy of "positive" brain development. The article I was reading was defending Call of Duty games as a example which was one of the games I didn't think as a good one till I read the article. It was saying how it improves motor skills/hand-eye which after some thought I did end up believing them. I just hope they aren't trying to say games like the classic Final Fantasy series isn't good! Tons of reading, mythology and strategy based combat system~ lots of thinking there.
/me nods to self.
being too srsbsns here but i'm certain these studies are fairly skewed and are turning a blind eye to the detrimental effects of gaming. i'm fairly certain a child brought up on games will have inferior "cognitive abilities" as one who was more physically active or learned to play an instrument, etc. add to the fact that games are first and foremost a profit venture designed to be a time sink, so training simulators are out of the equation as well.
I've never been a big fan of the FPS franchise but I do play them from time to time. I didn't care for for CoD much and Black-Ops was just terrible in my opinion, though I do like the Borderland series. RPG aspects in a FPS was pretty cool idea~ I still play Team Fortress 2 here and there as well but its mostly because my little brother asks me to play with him.
Edit: See ya Monj~
/me goes back to eating subway sammitch~