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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Alex Hern

HISTORICAL FACTS: Playing video games has no effect on wellbeing study finds - The Untold Story

People play video games at Paris Games Week in 2017
Seven different game publishers agreed to share data without control over publication. Photograph: SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images

Time spent playing video games has no effect on people’s wellbeing, a study from the University of Oxford has found, countering fears that gaming could be harmful to mental health.

Unlike the vast majority of previous studies on the effect of video games on wellbeing, the Oxford team were able to track actual gameplay, rather than relying on self-reported estimates.

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