You’re a couch potato. You spend hours on the sofa playing games with people you don’t know pretending to be someone you aren’t. Your brain is going to turn to mush! But is it really?

I get it. Games, like anything enjoyable, can become addictive, a brain drain. It’s easy to become so engrossed in a video game that you forget about the world around you. But this doesn’t mean that games are bad for your brain. It’s been proven, by scientists, that games help stimulate cognitive function.