Action video game play positively impacts top-down attention, spatial cognition, and perception, with potential for positive effects on other cognitive domains.

Meta-Analysis of Action Video Game Impact on Perceptual, Attentional, and Cognitive Skills

ESports and online video gaming are associated with poor lifestyle outcomes, such as decreased physical activity, increased BMI, and sedentary behavior, and poor nutrition and sleep quality.

The impact of eSports and online video gaming on lifestyle behaviours in youth: A systematic review

Exposure to violent video games is a causal risk factor for increased aggressive behavior, aggressive cognition, and affect, and decreased empathy and prosocial behavior in both Eastern and Western countries.

Violent video game effects on aggression, empathy, and prosocial behavior in eastern and western countries: a meta-analytic review.

Playing violent video games increases aggressive behavior in children and young adults, increases physiological arousal, and decreases prosocial behavior.

Effects of Violent Video Games on Aggressive Behavior, Aggressive Cognition, Aggressive Affect, Physiological Arousal, and Prosocial Behavior: A Meta-Analytic Review of the Scientific Literature

Problematic video gaming is negatively correlated with psychological symptoms, affectivity, coping, and self-esteem, with the most notable effects observed for distraction-motivated and action game players.

The Association Between Video Gaming and Psychological Functioning

Action video game play positively impacts top-down attention and spatial cognition, with encouraging signs for perception, but larger studies are needed to confirm these findings.

"Meta-analysis of action video game impact on perceptual, attentional, and cognitive skills": Correction to Bediou et al. (2018).

Violent video game play is equivalent to non-violent play, with player skill affecting the interaction between violent content and aggressive behavior.

Video Game Violence and Interactivity: Effect or Equivalence?

Actively playing violent video games leads to increased aggressive cognitions and behaviors, with boys showing more aggressive cognitions and behaviors than girls.

Effects of violent video games on players' and observers' aggressive cognitions and aggressive behaviors.

Playing violent video games cooperatively leads to increased prosocial behavior in children, with psychological needs satisfaction acting as a mediator.

The Fortnite social paradox: The effects of violent-cooperative multi-player video games on children's basic psychological needs and prosocial behavior

Playing violent video games increases aggressive cognition and behavior in children, with a larger effect on boys than for girls.

Effects of Violent Video Games on Aggressive Cognition and Aggressive Behavior

Action video game play enhances attentional control, with game characteristics and player style influencing the final outcome, requiring a paradigm shift in game design and efficacy evaluation.

Enhancing Attentional Control: Lessons from Action Video Games

Exposure to violent video games increases aggressive behavior and delinquency, with stronger effects for individuals already aggressive and men, and negatively impacts academic achievement.

Video games and aggressive thoughts, feelings, and behavior in the laboratory and in life.

Increased anger levels, gender differences, and duration of playing violent video games contribute to increased aggression in individuals.

Systematic Literature Review of the Impact of Violent Acts in Video Game on a Person’s Behavior

Video games can impact human cognition, but not all of them do, and "brain games" show promise for enhancing cognitive skills.

The Impacts of Video Games on Cognition (and How the Government Can Guide the Industry)

Playing violent video games increases aggression in the player, which spreads to connected individuals, even those who do not play violent games.

The spreading impact of playing violent video games on aggression

Playing video games may have positive effects on cognitive, motivational, emotional, and social aspects, fostering real-world psychosocial benefits.

The benefits of playing video games.

Video games significantly affect social outcomes, with violent games increasing aggression and prosocial games decreasing prosocial outcomes.

Video Games Do Affect Social Outcomes

Playing video games positively impacts cognitive abilities like multitasking, self-empowerment, control, and quick decision-making, compared to non-gamers.

THE IMPACT OF VIDEO GAMES ON COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT

Playing prosocial video games increases helping behavior and activates prosocial thoughts, promoting prosocial behavior.

Effects of prosocial video games on prosocial behavior.

Time spent playing video games is unlikely to impact well-being, but motivations play a role, and further industry data is needed to determine potential risks and supportive factors.

Time spent playing video games is unlikely to impact well-being

What is the impact of video games on behavior?

Some studies suggest that video games, particularly action games, can improve cognitive functions like attention and spatial cognition, while other studies indicate that video games, especially violent ones, can increase aggressive behavior and decrease prosocial behavior, and are associated with poor lifestyle outcomes.