For gamers of a particular age, there’s a certain comment you were sure to have heard, usually from an older relative, as they watched you strumming away at Guitar Hero or Rock Band: “Why don’t you just learn to play guitar for real and learn an actual skill instead of wasting time on some video game?” While nobody (well, very few bodies) truly felt that mastering “Through the Fire and Flames” suddenly meant they could headline a gig, gamers of the series and the games it inspired still argued that there were transferrable skills, such as rhythm and timing, that actually were quite helpful, and now a recent study seems to show that sports gamers feel the same way.
