As George Bush nearly asked: "Is our children reading?" The answer appears to be no, according to the 2006 report of the International Literacy Study. As the Guardian summarises its findings: "England has plummeted from third to 19th in an international league table of children's literacy levels as pupils replace books with computer games."
Imagine the headline 100 years ago: "Children spending too much time playing outdoors with hoops and sticks, says minister; should be forcibly enclosed to study improving literature." There's always some apparently pointless youth activity to scapegoat.
As has always been the case, though, the adult paranoia expressed here about the supposedly harmful influence of videogames depends on a sublime ignorance of the form. In fact, you're not going to get far in most modern videogames if you can't read. And some of them make you read an awful lot.
It's important in life to maintain a broad palette when it comes to culture and the arts. Hideo Kojima agrees, as he continues to use video games like Death Stranding to introduce people to music and other elements they might not otherwise discover.
Mojang has partnered with Merlin Entertainments to build the world's first Minecraft theme park in the UK.
A three-episode live-action adaptation of the first two Yakuza video games will debut Tuesday, March 17 exclusively IGN. Each episode is about an hour long and will stream on IGN.com and IGN’s YouTube channel.
concidering the question should be phrased "ARE our children reading?" not is
congradulations president bush, you're a moron
I just got done with a really great book called
"All creatures great and small"