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Video games are also affecting real life sports. Modern football players who have been weened on NFL Madden appear to be better at tactics and reading play formations.

Also, there was an instance where a NFL player executed a move from the video game.

But increasingly, according to Chris Suellentrop in this month’s Wired Magazine, the trend has reversed. A generation of actual NFL players, raised on games like Madden NFL, are bringing the influence of video games into their real play.

http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2010/02/05/04



Let's just hope no soldiers attempt a rocket jump in the real world.


When you can't respawn, it's horrible hard to learn the technique where you get nearly no damage.


I thought last night's onside kick to start off the second half was a video game move




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