Top 10 Strange Ways Video Games Affect Your Brain

The Avatar Effect

Apparently, if you’re the one to have personalized avatars in games, you’re more likely to be aggressive while playing video games. The character doesn’t have to have any similarities with the person who made it, it will still increase the violence when it comes to how the person acts in the game, and therefore real life.

A Special Emotional Reaction

There’s a special type of emotions directly linked to video games, that doesn’t show up in any other aspect of our lives. Those emotions are linked to three levels of the video games – narrative, context, and mechanics. When put together, those three levels build a powerful narrative, something of a second life for the player. Video games unleash a totally new experience for people. They are the characters, they see the story unravel before them, and they interact with the other players.