![]() If you already have a smartphone or tablet, then great, you’ve got a games machine. Photograph: UPI / Landov / Barcroft Media What you need to play video games Not wasting his life … Avid gamer Snoop Dogg. ![]() Basically, if you’re happy to watch TV for three hours a day or continually peruse celebrity gossip websites and social media streams, you cannot – with any degree of self-awareness – call video games a waste of time. Despite popular stereotypes, games are sociable and inclusive, with large, supportive communities and some brilliant events. ![]() Games have been shown to improve hand-eye coordination, cognitive flexibility, decision making, even vision. ![]() Games are respected enough for Bafta to accept them into its remit, enough for Moma to put a range of titles into its permanent collection, and enough for major art spaces like the Barbican and the Grand Palais museum in Paris to run exhibitions. ![]() Yes! The medium has matured hugely over the last five years, and there is a vast range of experiences available, from big blockbusting open-world adventures about marauding gangsters, to teeny, highly personal indie games about coming out. So for all the potential gamers out there who are thinking about taking up a joypad but don’t know where to start, or which games to try, or what a joypad looks like, here is a quick guide: ![]()
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