An article over on the bbci site has come to the conclusion that gaming may infact be good for you, obviously this flies in the face of many other reports that says gaming is infact bad for you?

Well good or bad at the end of the day it depends on the person but this article that I found on a wet miserable Saturday did manage to put a smile on my face.

The importance of the social side of Counter-Strike was revealed in the constant banter, in-jokes and insults that people exchanged during play, said Prof Wright.To outsiders this game talk can be impenetrable and lead people to misinterpret what is going on.

Players tended to bring their offline culture with them when they play, said Prof Wright. It was often obvious when teenage boys were playing, he said, because there was much more trashtalk and sexist or homophobic insults flying around. But, said Prof Wright, it was a mistake to think that this meant that gamers were misanthropists

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