From the article: "the high-fructose corn syrup of entertainment," providing delicious pastimes without much nutritional value, so to speak. But then they lis

From the article: "the high-fructose corn syrup of entertainment," providing delicious pastimes without much nutritional value, so to speak. But then they list games like Angry Birds and Fruit Ninja. I would say that games like Farmville (along with its ilk) which are little more than incentives to continue playing at bite size intervals are more the "junk food" of the gaming world.