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Multiplayer online games may not just be for young geeks - research finds benefits in cognitive functioning of elderly

When a couple plays online games together, they say they are happier in their marriage than couples in which only one spouse games (Credit: Elvis untot, Wikimedia Commons) If someone asked you to sketch a portrait of a gamer who spends countless hours each week inhabiting an avatar say, an elf or a warlock in a virtual fantasy world, what kind of person would you draw? A teenage boy whose pimply forehead hovers mere centimeters from the computer screen? [More]