🎮🧠 Can Gaming Give You These Life Skills? 🧠🎮

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Gaming is an adventure, a way to relax and to catch up with friends.

But have you ever stopped to think it could be teaching you valuable skills?

Yep, it turns out that all the times your parents yelled at you for spending hours hammering away at your controller in your games room, they might have been wrong about it being a waste of time - because you were actually developing a whole host of useful attributes.

Of course, there is no denying that there can be a dark side to excessive gaming - the media is rife with stories of addiction and anti-social behaviour -, but there's also an underreported good side.

🖳 Loading Screen Games 🖳 #Retrogaming

Who remembers a time when you would sit and wait for your computer games to load?

Anyone who owned a Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC or an Atari 800 will remember it very well!

🔎 Review: Observer 'A great way to spend a few ‘Hauers’ 🔎 @BlooberTeam @BrittRecluseuk #GameDev

Game Title: Observer

Developer: Bloober team

Platform Reviewed: PS4

Rating: Ice Cool

Everything is improved by adding Rutger Hauer, the movie veteran of classics such as Blade Runner (most applicable here), Salute of the Jugger, The Hitcher, Surviving the Game and dozens more besides (yes, even Armageddon with Mark Dacascos, a better film than the 1998 Michael Bay one) provides the physical basis and voices the protagonist of Observer, Daniel Lazarski.

A cop for the KPD (Krakow Police Department), his speciality is hacking into neural implants and ‘observing’ memories to piece together crime scenes. Set almost exclusively in a rundown tenement building in a dystopian Poland, Observer manages to convey a rich world full of dubious history in a relatively claustrophobic setting. Good.

🕹️ Games Room Tour 2019 - "Britt & Faye's Games Room(s)" 🕹️ @BrittRecluseuk @kingdomofcarts #Retrogaming

"Join Britt as he shows us around the awesome games room that he and Faye have built up. Keep your eyes open for some pure retrogaming gold in them there rooms!"

@BrittRecluseuk 🕹️

@kingdomofcarts 🕹️

🌵 Ten Minute Taster: Brawlout - PS4 "My First Go At A Platform Fighter Game!" 🌵 #Brawlout