Violent video games can help to relieve pain - Study

Video games, and particularly the violent ones can help reduce anxiety and tension from the player's minds and help them relieve mental pain.

This was concluded at the end of a very detailed study on gaming and its potential effects on the human physiological patterns. Games like Gears of Wars, Call of Duty, Battlefield etc, were tested among a group of volunteers and the results clearly showed that continuously playing these games for a certain period of time increased the player's tolerance to pain.

However, games with a more 'soft' touch were reported not to have the same effects of their violent counterparts. For example, adventure games like Quest for Glory, Myst, and Broken Sword actually increased the player's skill of intuition rather than helping them reduce anxiety, pain or tension.

So why was this study conducted in the first place? The reason was to see if there was any correlation with playing video games while using swearing words. And eventually that led to the above mentioned theory being tested. Yes, its that simple.