Games Take Away the Pain

Gamasutra reports on a Wheeling Jesuit University study that indicates gameplaying can allow those with great pain to live more fulfilling lives. From the article: "The Wheeling study compared several different genres of games in their effects on pain. Six types of games were used: action, puzzle, arcade, fighting, sports, and boxing, all varieties that encourage high attention and stimulus. (Games such as RPGs and graphical adventures were likely left out of the survey for their low-impact nature.) The game types most effective in distracting from pain, meted out by cold pressor tests after 10 minutes of each subject playing a particular game type, were the sports and fighting games."

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I disagree..

[kurt_ram]

Sometimes, playing those multiplayer games online with a ping of 300, getting owned by n00bs, just because your asshole room-mate is downloading pr0n over the network could be pretty painful (sometimes for the room-mate too).