Video games may improve eyesight.

Darkfrog submitted, created time 11 months 2 weeks (sciencenow.sciencemag.org)

I played a lot of video games as a youngling and my contact lenses barely fit under my eyelids, but according to this article in Science magazine, that may be because I preferred story-based games to first-person-shooters.

Games that require the player to detect enemies and react quickly seem to be linked with improved contrast sensitivity--the ability to discern objects in low lighting.

This study was performed in male gamers and non-gamers in their late teens and early twenties, so these boys would have started out on DOOM and Quake

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Computer game "Spore" has Darwin doing stupid creature befriending dance in his grave!

Darkfrog submitted, created time 1 year 4 months (www.sciencemag.org)

The makers of the computer game "Spore" promise a real evolutionary experience: Start out the game as a microbe just trying to survive and travel all the way through the history of evolution into a species capable of a modern, civilized society! Depending on the choices the player makes early on in the game, the later species can have a seemingly limitless range of fascinating, monstrous forms

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