actually theyve helped me on alot of history tests, and i can speedread fricken fast now because of RPGs, Also they improve hand-eye coordination, they improve your general awareness, and they improve reactions times, and that are also proven to improve your throught process by making you think faster/more efficiently/better which is probably why i have so many spelling errors, i play games ALOT heh, and i think up my entire response in like 2 seconds, but i just want to type it and get it over with so i type it all really fast to get it done, Thanks to my ub3r 140 words per minute, which i have The Typing Of The Dead to thank for!! Video games DO help, its proven, its just the idiots where they play games seriously ALL day and do NOTHING else that are the ones that make it seem like they dont, im in school right now in fact, and one of them is aross the room driving me crazy right now, and im going to strangle him right now hes so retarded i swear to god....