

Not wasting his life … Avid gamer Snoop Dogg.

Basically, if you’re happy to watch TV for three hours a day or continually peruse celebrity gossip websites and social media streams, you cannot – with any degree of self-awareness – call video games a waste of time. Despite popular stereotypes, games are sociable and inclusive, with large, supportive communities and some brilliant events. Games have been shown to improve hand-eye coordination, cognitive flexibility, decision making, even vision. Games are respected enough for Bafta to accept them into its remit, enough for Moma to put a range of titles into its permanent collection, and enough for major art spaces like the Barbican and the Grand Palais museum in Paris to run exhibitions. Yes! The medium has matured hugely over the last five years, and there is a vast range of experiences available, from big blockbusting open-world adventures about marauding gangsters, to teeny, highly personal indie games about coming out. So for all the potential gamers out there who are thinking about taking up a joypad but don’t know where to start, or which games to try, or what a joypad looks like, here is a quick guide: So what did they think I was going to say? “No, they’re a massive waste of time”? Secondly, a few years ago, people my age were feeling guilty about playing video games, now there are people feeling guilty that they’re not. First, I write about video games for a living that’s my job. It’s an interesting question for two reasons. Keep reading for our 25 best GTA 5 mods on PC, in no particular order.Recently, several non-techy friends have sidled up to me and asked, in hushed conspiratorial tones: “Keith, should I be playing video games?” Now in order to install the mods themselves - make sure you read the specific instructions - but the gist of it should be as simple as copying the mod files to the main GTA 5 folder.

Copy ScriptHookV.dll to the parent GTAV folder.
