You see? Parents are nothing but a bunch of liars! Oh yeah, if you hold that face like that it will stay that way permanently. Uh oh. Oh, don't play too many videogames or else your eyes will go bad and you'll have to get glasses. Liar! New research suggests that playing action packed videogames can actually improve your eyesight.

From the article:

Playing "Gears of War," "Lost Planet," "Halo" and other action video games that involve firing guns can improve your eyesight, new research claims.

Sedate games like "Tetris" don't work.

A group of 10 male college students who started out as non-gamers and then received 30 hours of training on first-person action video games showed a substantial increase in their ability to see objects accurately in a cluttered space, compared to 10 non-gamers given the same test, said Daphne Bevelier of the University of Rochester.

Read the full article over at livescience.com