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Written by Michael Betts
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Editor's Note: If only EA would include some Command & Conquer in EA Sports Active, I think we could all live forever. -Shoe
An interesting article popped up on Scientific American today. Its title: "Nintendo Oui: Active Video Games May Be as Healthy for Kids as Conventional Play Time." Naturally, I gave it a read.
It doesn't actually say much new. We've known Dance Dance Revolution has been a pro-weight-loss game for awhile now. Nevertheless, it was pretty exciting to see scientists come out and admit that, yes, gaming can be good for you. "Just last December, a study in Psychology and Aging found that playing strategy-type videogames can help older people retain certain cognitive skills that tend to decline with age, such as reasoning and switching between tasks," author Fran Hawthorne noted.
This is especially interesting to hear after the President, among other people, recently went on record to bemoan gaming's effect on childhood obesity.
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