Video games have been accused of making young people violent and aggressive, making people isolate themselves from society and lowering young people's attention span and concentration. These claims have yet to be supported by numerous well-organized studies and have never been more than a correlation with any of these claims, and have in fact been disproven on several occasions. Adam Eichenbaum (2014), author of the American Journal of Play, concluded a discussion of video game research by stating that “today's video games are much more than entertainment. They are also weapons in the fight against the decline of mental abilities in old age. They promote job-related skills. And they are a model of how to teach children complex and difficult tasks and skills. Like any technology, video games are neither intrinsically good nor intrinsically bad." (p. 67) Video games are not the waste of time they are accused of, nor do they slow down the development of today's youth. If there's anything to be said about video games, it's that there's a lot of positive potential hidden in them; that video games serve as tools for people who want to make a change in society, whether the changes are positive or negative are in the hands of those who choose to use video games as tools. These are not unrealistic or histrionic claims; video games, after all, are much more than simple