That's right, according to the Australian news site news.com.au, video games improve your vision. But not just any games. The study by Nature Neuroscience focuses on games where "players typically target and shoot figures that pop up suddenly on a computer screen". So tell your parents kids. If they don't let you cut people's heads off in Gears of War, soon you might not even be able to see the TV.

This stands in sharp contrast to the general perception of video games as an unhealthy strain on the eyes, but recent studies including this one from National Geographic have found that FPSs such as Medal of Honor, Unreal and Call of Duty improve the ability to track objects on the periphery of the player's vision, such as a child running into the road while the player is driving, or, I kid you not, helping people "like ground troops going through uncharted territory" detect thing in their "visual environment". Is their anything video games can't do?