Videogames are bad for you and will warp your fragile little minds! They are the apocalypse! Run away, run away! Oh, but it looks like action games may help improve your vision problems. So apparently the apocalypse caused by gaming won't be too bad in the end. At least you'll see it coming from a mile away.

From the article:

Those who played the first-person shooter Unreal Tournament (the paper did not say which version of Unreal Tournament was played) experienced greater improvements to visual acuity and peripheral vision than subjects who had played Tetris.

Professor Daphne Bavelier, who ran the study, said the research gives hope to those who feared the part of the brain that manages visual acuity could not improve after adulthood. She also said that gaming, because of participation by subjects, likely has a greater affect on eyesight than passive media, such as movies or television shows.

Read the full article over at gamespot.com