Are Video Games a Waste of Time?

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One of the members of the Games Research Network, Tom Brock, was recently interviewed by the BBC World Service for their flagship investigative program 'The Inquiry.' You can check it out here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csv1bv

Tom appears at about 17:30 in, where he extols the wonders of Dark Souls, compares video gamers to piano players, discusses the useful skills that are developed by gamers, and reveals the joys of "punishing himself with puzzles."

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