Airdate: Are Video Games Really That Bad?
This doco delves into science to find out what impact playing video games is having on our brains.
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Yes!
Especially when the damn things keep you hooked for hours on end and leave you drained and walking like a zombie out in the daylight….
SBS 2 continues its video game docos this Thursday night with Are Video Games Really That Bad?
This delves into science and meets passionate gamers, journalists, programmers, psychologists and neuroscientists to find out what impact playing video games is having on our brains.
It finds out how developers engineer their games to make sure they reach the sweet spot between frustration and boredom for the gamer, and looks at some of the scientific tests being carried out around the world to understand the impact of gaming on behaviour, physiology and neurobiology.
Do gamers who play the most violent games show more violent behaviour? Are gamers better at spatial navigation? Do they have faster response times than non-gamers? Just how addictive are video games – and could there be any positive effects to playing games?
Featuring the very latest science from across the world and full of surprises, this documentary reveals the true impact of video games.
Thursday, 26 November at 9.30pm on SBS 2.
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2 Responses
Of course they’re not.
The idea that video games are somehow bad is from an outdated notion from the 1980’s pushed by sensationalist outlets such as Fox News.
Sitting down to play one or two hours of video games is no different from sitting down to watch one or two hours of TV, apart from your brain being more mentally active during games while its more passive during TV.
Video Games making someone violent is just ludicrous as the idea of watching a violent TV show making someone violent.
Games have been part of our culture for over 30 years now, naturally as younger people become adults this attitude is changing as the older, less tech-savy peoples opinion’s are becoming less overall important to the mainstream message.
Fact is, most television producers are scared of new media like Video Games, when games are able to make millions of dollars within a day, while TV shows…
No! As long as you can practice what us big boys refer to as ‘self control’. There are plenty of things that can keep you hooked for hours, video games aren’t any different from those