Playing Starcraft 2 Might Make You Smarter

Playing Starcraft, according to the study, “stresses rapid and simultaneous maintenance, assessment, and coordination between multiple information and action sources was sufficient to affect change.” The result of playing real-time strategy games such as Starcraft is “an underlying dimension of cognitive flexibility” across several laboratory tests.

Now maybe I’ll have an excuse to buy Starcraft 2 instead of just playing Starcraft 1