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Two psychiatrists suggest playing video games with your children.

Social/Emotional benefits of gaming

Rating guides for parents/teachers

Great read about the Touch Screen Generation & technology. Challenges the status quo in a well articulated way.

Nice article on balancing being a fun parent while maintaining control.

European game information/rating site. Similar to ESRB. A good place to go to get information on games you are considering purchasing.

Study showing multitasking improved by playing first person shooter games

Interesting perspective on the benefits of playing video games. 

Today, worldwide, hundreds of millions of people play video games. The vast majority of those players are perfectly normal people, meaning that nothing newsworthy ever happens to them, but some small percentage of them are killers, some are extraordinarily depressed, some are suicidal; and every day some video gamer somewhere does something terrible or experiences something terrible. All this is also true of the hundreds of millions of people who don't play video games. 

Article from Psychology Today about whether video game addition occurs.

Based on research not just opinion. What is it about games that is transcendent? Perhaps it's the fact that games are optional, they are obstacles that we volunteer to overcome. Games are what we choose to do. They are what we are drawn to when we have a choice about how to spend our time and energy.  Games are freedom.

Article with lots of links to research around the subject of games being good for us.