2011年4月13日星期三

Get Your Mind and Body Perfect with Video Games

Video games tend to be associated wow gold with preteens, laziness and isolation. Rarely do adults factor into the dialogue. But as it turns out, video games may improve communication and mobility for women who are 50-years-old and more. If you cast your mind back to before the Dawn of War series, most of the older video games based on the Warhammer franchise are, in a word, terrible. Why is that? With a background that is so utterly rich and full of evocative artwork and stories, you’d have thought games developers would have a hell of a head start, allowing them to create games with well crafted stories and truly epic combat.

Researchers say the video games can improve motor and cognitive skills. The games also improve upper arm strength. Experts say they also www.bostontours.us/flywowgold.com are good for the brain because they require players to carry out many different tasks at once. Even if you’ve never seen or played a table-top wargame from the vast entity that it Games Workshop, you’ve probably at least heard of one of their efforts to bring the Warhammer franchise to the PC and gaming consoles. A recent study through La Trobe University’s School of Public Health found that the Nintendo Wii may benefit the social and emotional well-being of older women.

Study results showed no physical effects from Wii play, but participants reported an improved sense of social, psychological and physical well being. The Warhammer universe is an incredibly rich and diverse one, which has spawned countless versions of the main gaming themes, all supported by detailed lore, graphic novels, fan-fiction and even card games. It was natural that Games Workshop would want to try and bring that living world into the realm of computer gaming.  This study is among the first to measure the effects of physical exertion among elderly gamers, but numerous studies have measured video games’ effects on cognitive ability.

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