Halo Player Wins $10,000 Scholarship to Study Game Psych

The next time someone says there's no future in playing video games, you can point them here.

Twitch.TV, Alienware and SteelSeries awarded five $10,000 scholarships to students after receiving hundreds of applications for their scholarship program, announced in June.

One of the winners is Kelli Dunlap, a 26-year-old doctoral candidate at the American School of Professional Psychology in Washington, D.C. If it seems difficult for a graduate student to balance studies and a gaming lifestyle, it helps that Dunlap's thesis is about intense gaming -- specifically, its effect on people's health and well-being.

Dunlap's hypothesis goes against the beliefs of many TV pundits who demon…
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