I love videogames, but I also love working out, hiking and climbing, competing in athletic events, making money, socializing with friends, going to parties, having sex, etc.
Videogames don't fuck up your life unless you get obsessed with them to the point of rarely ever doing anything else.
Honestly, I don't care what "benefits" there are to videogames. I know they can relieve stress, improve hand-eye coordination, strengthen your imagination, expose you to foreign culture, etc, but I just play them because I enjoy them.
I greatly respect a great videogame as an Art form, as it is an amazing medium of Art that allows the audience to engage and interact with it in ways that no other medium of Art can. I find them more interesting than movies, which I hardly ever watch. Sometimes games have got really enjoyable storylines, epic music, kick ass characters, exciting gameplay, etc.
People like Hossfly who ignorantly talk shit about videogames should take a ride down a slide of razor blades into a pool of Everclear and then have someone set them on fire while they drown in flames.