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How much time do primary school pupils spend playing with computer games?

Does it matter, and what can we do about it?

By Nigel Godfrey, posted 12th August 2011 at 1:48PM | Comments

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Earlier this year a story appeared on BBC News about some research undertaken in a school in Devon in which children were asked how much time they had spent playing games on computers.

Over three-quarters of the children questioned said that they used a games console every night, with some pupils claiming they did not go to sleep until 4am.

A follow-up report in the Guardian highlighted the fact that since 2008 sales of video games in the UK have outstripped sales of films and music, while in 2009 Modern Warfare 2 was the biggest-selling item on Amazon, beating even the latest Harry Potter movie.

But does any of this matter?

Obviously children need sleep, and children deprived of...

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