A recently published meta-analysis concluded that the spatial skills improvements
derived from playing commercially available shooter video
games are comparable to the effects of formal (high school
and university-level) courses aimed at enhancing these
same skills. Further, this recent meta-analysis showed that
spatial skills can be trained with video games in a relatively
brief period, that these training benefits last over an extended
period of time, and crucially, that these skills transfer
to other spatial tasks outside the video game context.