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Playing action games may improve eye sight by 20%

by XXBrice Petruzzelli on Feb 7, 2007 at 07:43 AM

Unreal TournamentA report was released today that’ll be good news for all the gamers out there that have significant others telling them to stop gaming. Besides past studies that have proven that gaming improves hand-eye coordination, a new study has come out saying that playing video games helps improve vision by up to 20%. More specifically, the study lists action games, such as Unreal Tournament, Battlefield 2142, and Counter-Strike as the games most likely to improve a person’s vision.

The study tested two different games, the classic Tetris game, along with Unreal Tournament. Tetris had almost no effect on the eye sight of its players, while Unreal Tournament gave its players a 20% boost in eye sight. The test was conducted at the University of Rochester.


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  • David said:

    I love the blog that you have. I was wondering if you would link my blog to yours and in return I would do the same for your blog. If you want to, my site name is American Legends and the URL is:

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  • I tend to not fully agree with your post, I think you need to relax your eyes in order to create better eyesight. Doing a game is not exactly relaxing for your eyes.

    Yet I’m not saying it’s bad. I’m the author of http://www.seeingwithoutglasses.com

  • health said:

    So, I have to play action games everyday hehe :)

  • Hah, thats a pretty interesting post, who would have thought that playing video games would better your eyesight?
    Good news for me a 30 year old gamer. :)

    Speaking of games, here is some new information regarding the new action game from zipper interactive.

    <a href = “http://skateass.com/wordpress/mag-massive-action-game-information-and-things-known">MAG: Massive Action Game Information</a>

  • oops, i guess html isn’t allowed.

    the link is.

    http://skateass.com/wordpress/mag-massive-action-game-information-and-things-known

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