If you follow my posts, you may be beginning to sense a theme. I love finding ways in which video games help people (largely because I’m sick of nay-sayers who claim that video games are inherently bad… but let’s not get into a philosophical discussion here). Yet again, video games are proving to be helpful: a group of students from Singapore Polytechnic are creating video games to help people who have suffer . The games will be for the Nintendo Wii, and will feature tasks that involve moving the wrist and arm, actions that post-stroke patients must practice in order to regain use of their bodies. One game asks the patients to flip food on a grill. In the other, they must throw newspapers at enemies that pop up on the screen (”guns don’t kill people, newspapers kill people”?). Wii games have been used to help post-stroke patients in hospitals already, but these games will be specifically created with this purpose in mind. They are simple, but effective. I bow to these students - they are doing something great for patients who have suffered from a stroke, and also helping clean the name of video games in general.