You kids is reading video games?

Perhaps the tide is turning; video game bashing seems to have been all the rage in the early naughties, but it seems that others are joining me in starting to acknowledge the place of gaming, as just another childhood thing. In the Guardian, Steven Poole writes:

Imagine the headline 100 years ago: “Children spending too much time playing outdoors with hoops and sticks, says minister; should be forcibly enclosed to study improving literature.” There’s always some apparently pointless youth activity to scapegoat.

So if English children are not so much interested in picking up a paperback, maybe that says more about the quality of books currently being foisted upon them than it does about the evils of digital entertainment. Children are, after all, quite discriminating. If someone writes a new Harry Potter, they’ll curl up with it for days. If not, there’s always the games console.

Kids and games, it’s just another way to play.  Nice to see the world starting to agree with me for a change.

(via Kotaku)

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