The drift towards video games is continuously increasing as the new creative video gaming consoles are showing their entries into the gaming world. The Video games are kissing new heights by selling more than expected hardware as well as software. The researchers are also showing great interests in digging out new fact concerning video games; a good example is a recent study made by Australian National University based on the skills of the left handers on the video games. The study reveals the fact that the right handers lag the video game playing finesse a bit as compared to the left handers. Also a groundbreaking research shows the innovative consoles like SP3 are helping out medical researchers in finding the panacea to the fatal diseases like cancer.
Meanwhile the research uncovers nostalgic information regarding the video gamers that says playing video games are repressing the talent of gab of the gamers. The study further reveals that the video games are turning the teen gamers into poor verbal skilled entity. The research carried out by Lancaster University’s Professor Tony McEnery says that the top twenty words that the gamers use abundantly are yeah, no, but and like that they use them around a third of all words.
One more astonishing remark that study reveals is the teen gamers possess half the vocabulary (12600 Vs 21400) as compare to that of individuals aged between 25-34.
Pro. McEnery says that the cases concerning deficiency of communication skills have also been observed in the employees in various organizations and similar dearth they are detecting in teenagers that could turnout to be a big barrier in classrooms and hence later in their lives.
“Kids need to get talking and develop their vocabulary,” says Pro. McEnery.
It seems the study is hailing upon videogames for no reason because video games are showing its association with above said facts. The research is indirectly trying to say that the games are making gamers introvert by nature; let suppose it for a moment that the video games are playing vital role in repressing the talent of teen gamers but greater than that schools are responsible for the malfunctioning as the special classed should be invited to cultivate the communication skills in youngsters and all the skills take time to appear.
Via: joystiq
