Playing games, including video games, often involves reading, imagination, creativity, problem solving, and other active tasks. Passive video consumption certai

Playing games, including video games, often involves reading, imagination, creativity, problem solving, and other active tasks. Passive video consumption certainly involves less of all those things. Obviously, there is a lot of variance here, and Candy Crush or whatever 3 years are playing these days probably doesn't have as much benefit as some story driven game with important text dialogue and battle mechanics. But even playing Candy Crush is probably better than watching Candy Crush.