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title: Video game therapy--a new frontier - CNET News.com
description: Video game therapy--a new frontier - CNET News.com
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# [Video game therapy--a new frontier - CNET News.com](https://www.kouroshdini.com/the-dini-group-ltd-blog/video-game-therapy-a-new-frontier-cnet-newscom)

 Written by [Kourosh](https://www.kouroshdini.com/the-dini-group-ltd-blog/author/kourosh) | Mar 20, 2006 7:55:29 PM

[Video game therapy--a new frontier | CNET News.com](http://news.com.com/Video%20game%20therapy--a%20new%20frontier/2100-1043_3-6051269.html?tag=nefd.top)

Let's hear it for videogames!

Videogames are enjoyable precisely because they offer a safe environment in which one learns. The learning may not be about the precise dates of battles of the Civil War, but it is arguably learning.

A book I often cite on the matter is called [What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1403965382/sr=8-1/qid=1142884661/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-0681223-8329429?%5Fencoding=UTF8) by James Paul Gee. Gee is a linguist who started to play video games somewhere past his forties. He brings his knowledge of learning to games from an adult teaching perspective.

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