5 Essential Things Video Games Can Teach Us
The bane of any parents life is to watch their offspring playing endless hours of video games, as opposed to reading a good book, or even watching a fine movie. It seems that the medium retains the casual past-time image in many minds, and is the subject of scorn from journalists in the media who claim it is doing everything from making us less intelligent to causing cancer (both of which are unsubstantiated). However, despite a poor public image, the medium of video games is a stimulating, worthwhile engagement and I believe that the ire directed towards it is misguided and critics of the genre to be misinformed. Throughout my travels through dungeons, across planets and to the depths of history, there are things that I genuinely feel I have learnt better than I would have sat in any classroom. Here are five areas from which I have managed to gather useful data and life skills from their story, themes or design...