Playing Halo Makes You Like a Girl
This new study shows that people who play first-person shooters develop a better ability to discriminate small objects in cluttered spaces. Women are naturally good at this, which explains why they don’t need to play Halo 2. On the other hand, ability to remember where caches are (like caches of nuts or weapons) is a male evolutionary advantage. Most FPSs rely on this skill as well.
I also expect that games like Halo 2 (perhaps with slight tweaks) will be found to improve mood for classes of clinical depression. Anecdotally, I can feel my own hippocampus straining to burst out of my skull ever since I started playing these games. I’m pretty sure it’s not a tumor. Crackdown is the perfect game for this. The map is complicated enough that it should result in months of good hippocampus development even for an experienced gamer.