(Original article appears in the Telegraph here)

Baroness Greenfield’s been at it again: in this month’s Wired article entitled, ‘Did video games make bankers more reckless?’

Rather bizarrely, Greenfield’s hypothetical argument boils down to the premise that the current generation of bankers grew up playing videogames and that videogames make you reckless.

(Original article appears in the Telegraph here)

I’m a very casual gamer, with a preference for instantly gratifying ‘beat ‘em ups’ like the Tekken and Soul Calibur series or first person shooters like Time Crisis, but I love Sackboy, the hero of PS3’s highly successful user generated platform game Little Big Planet.

‘Sackboy’ from Little Big Planet  Photo: littlebigplanet.com