Video Games are Good for Children?!

The media is often full of stories about the detrimental effect of video games on children's development, so it's interesting to hear about a new report which takes the opposite view. The European Parliament Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection has just published a new report which claims that computer games are good for children and teach them essential life skills. The full document doesn't appear to be online, though you can read the official press release summarising its findings by clicking here.