A new study shows that games have educational value. This is not news to those of us who have watched kids play videogames. I have seen kids who could never sit still in a classroom stick with a complex game, learning the rules and conditions, identifying problems, trying to solve the problems, taking new approaches when early efforts failed, and bringing those skills into other areas of their lives. It's nice to see this recognized, especially while there is such fearfulness surrounding videogames' effects on kids.