games: May 2005 Archives

There is no shortage of news reports, articles, or journals contending that gaming is bad for you. So much so that I am not even going to try to find links to them in an effort to make this blog even-sided.

However, lately there have been quite a few findings that suggest gaming may be quite good for you. By good this means it may improve your health, visual skills, intelligence and be quite an effective training tool.

Go here to read the original report at Techdirt. Now I won't feel quite so guilty when I play Halo 2.

Wired Magazine is running a story about the Electronic Entertainment Expo that will hit Los Angeles in the upcoming week. Although the article doesn't provide a lot of info about the new consoles coming out, it does re-invigorate a discussion I had with my son recently.

The two of us went to a local book/video/music store. He was looking at the Nintendo DS. I had recently seen a PSP and I must admit that I was pretty impressed with it. He would like to have a Nintendo DS. He already has a Game Boy and a Game Boy Color, but of course, he needs a Nintendo DS too. I asked him what he thought of the PSP. I remarked that I thought it was a better machine given the things it can do ( at a considerable cost over the Nintendo DS ). He disagreed. But I think his opinion is a bit biased because many of his friends have a Nintendo DS and if he had one he could join in their games.