{"id":419,"date":"2005-06-24T12:59:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-24T12:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/?p=419"},"modified":"2005-06-24T12:59:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-24T12:59:00","slug":"are-games-bad-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/06\/24\/are-games-bad-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Are games bad for you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/article.php?article_id=59770\">This article<\/a> over at Eurogamer reports on a study by Klaus Mathiak who concluded that &#8220;therefore games train our brains not to distinguish between what&#8217;s real and what&#8217;s pretend.&#8221;  However, to me, all he has proved, at best, is that this conclusion can be drawn from gamers playing FPS games.  It seems like he&#8217;s got an awful long way to go before he can prove that games in general are bad for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article over at Eurogamer reports on a study by Klaus Mathiak who concluded that &#8220;therefore games train our brains not to distinguish between what&#8217;s real and what&#8217;s pretend.&#8221; However, to me, all he has proved, at best, is that this conclusion can be drawn from gamers playing FPS games. It seems like he&#8217;s got &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/06\/24\/are-games-bad-for-you\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Are games bad for you?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}