Video games dont make me violent.

When the media reports on shit like this I do.

Yes. I have to go kill someone now. Thank you Steven Spielberg and your block game.

YAY! this will sort out the population problem! Nice pic by the way! I LOVE BAT BOY!

Before jumping to conclusions, I'd want to see the doctors research papers.

Just as we gamers don't like being judged without merit, so too must we not judge until we see all the facts.

BAT BOY!!!

You know sports promote violence on a level on par with reality, since they can bring out emotions of anger, frustration, envy, and so on just for playing a game competitively. Perhaps they should publish some studies that prove that.

Okay, then. Any new news?

@Witzbold: Quick! Ban Hammer the media!

I think we as a species have been doing a stellar job of being violent LONG before Nolan Bushnell et al. and his brand of insidiousness came along.

*face palm* When are people going to learn. *sigh*

I can buy it, it doesn't mean it affects every person - just people that are weak or disturbed mentally. You know the kind.

They beat their children to death whenh something as simple as knocking over a console happens.

Don't write everything off at face value.

That picture made me lol. The return of batboy!

So true...I can't even remember how many people/animals/trees I killed/raped/tortured after dying from so many cheap deaths in the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for the NES...

"The more normal it is, the more likely it is they're going to activate or engage in those behaviors when provoked or even unprovoked," Snyder said.

That sound's more like speculation to me than science.

The thing is they're saying "Violent video games are hurting children". Aren't most violent games aimed towards adults and are rated "M"? I mean, I know kids get a hold of M rated games and such, but those are the kids who's parents don't give a rats ass about what their kid is doing, and in that case it's pretty obvious the parents don't care what their kid does so they probably won't care that their kid might become violent from playing this game.

But these nut jobs need to realize that developers are making mature, violent games for us adults, not the kids, and it's not the developers fault that their titles are falling into kids' hands.

And I'm not going to all of a sudden start shooting places up just because I saw it happen in GTA. Seeing as how my adult brain knows how to differentiate right from wrong.

@(sadkermit) want to trade AC:WW codes?: Agreed, it can set things off in some people- but usually, these people have severe issues (apparent or underlying) to begin with, and to a degree games can bring that out.

But for the average person? Not really.

You can only imagine my surprise when, after playing Mario 3, jumping on the heads of my friends did not flatten them.

I've been gaming since I was 3 and I never got angry at anything.

Except the idiots who try and hit on my girlfriend.

Why dont they just go back to blaming "Rock'n roll" for everything thats wrong with children again.

emotonal arousal \= normalized behavior

OK, we all know this is a load of crap. Playing video games doesn't increase pro-social behavior, it makes you a shut-in.

Boy I can't wait to get home, crack a beer, play Mass Effect and lock myself in for the weekend. I just got it on Tuesday finally, haven't had a few solid hours to shut the world out yet.

Yeah I am about as non violent as they come and have been playing video games from a very early age. It is just certain people that do not know where video games end and the real world starts that they start drawing conclusions on the gaming community as a whole.

I've been playing video games my whole life and I still dont like gore flicks..

I dont like seeing "ultra-violence" in film.. I'd especially not like to endure it or witness it in real life. Yet Im quite happy to see it in a video game. Does this mean I am desensitized? No.. idiots..

It means my brain isnt dense enough to equate digital images.. (even at the best pre-rendered quality ever created, its still friggin' CGI and its as clear as day) to real life.

A game is a friggin' game.. get over it.

People were crazy when the biggest form of entertainment was a contest for who could draw the best stick figure. Humanity just has not lost the cold blooded aggresive killers genetic coding yet.

@Crash McCloud: Sorry man, but your girlfriend is just all kinds of hot.

Wow, another attack on video games and the violence that ensues from it. How originial. Never mind all the other media that far more people are subjected to that is ignored. Ah well, media is desperate for ratings.

There are screwed up people of all kinds and some of them like video games, which inevitably causes crimes to be 'linked' to games.

And sorry for the double post, but I wanted to add: I played violent games and watched rated R movies all throughout my young childhood life and I never wanted to go start killing people, or imitating games or movies that I was playing, nor am I a violent person.

Can I be violent? Sure...I yell at my brothers and sisters all the time, but that's only when they're super annoying. But I never hit them or wish I could beat them with a lead pipe.

All kids minds are different and will operate differently. They say "games warp kids minds". Well, they didn't warp mine.

Minesweeper makes me want to plant mines everywhere.

Why do they think that we're getting more violent? I'm pretty sure that humans were more violent hundreds of years ago.

Seeing stuff like this makes me want to follow the reporters home, methodically eliminate all their pets and family members one by one while they watch, then kill them slowly over several hours using the dullest knife from their own kitchen.

I really don't get why they're so concerned about games and violence though! :P

More funny cake pics NOW!

You know what really makes me violent? Killing spiders and other insects. Yeah, the way you squish their bodies and all the guts kinda squirm out.

@pylon_trooper: I hear Hitler, Attila the Hun and Saddam Hussein were huge fans of space war! Case Closed! now let's go home Columbo!

Columbo, "Just one last thing. Does my glass eye play the part of a real eye, or does it play the part of a glass eye? I just don't get it"

BLOOD. I WANT BLOOD.

Oh wait, I'm the guy who nearly crapped his shorts watching White Noise, I'm not even qualified to watch a real horror movie.

Yet, I play Counterstrike everyday. Haha. <3

@Itzpapalotl: People seem to be confusing our increased technological capacity for violence and murder with our species actually being more violent, before gunpowder and such you just had to work alot harder for it but I would agree with others that pre-Modern humans were just as violent as we are if not moreso, they just didn't have the bombs/guns/etc that we do now ;)

Ok here we go again (starts to rant) Video games don't desensitize me real life does i've seen dead bodies at work. video games don't do shit maybe instead of using everything else as a scapegoat why don't they just admit their shitty parenting because their PS3s,360s and Wiis(and most the time kids do tend to play mature games not ment for them either) are the new babysitters because either the parents are too busy or they just don't give a fuck. I bet if there was a reality tv show about people with hidden cams recording parents being fucktards when it comes to raising kids iam sure they would even blame that tv show too for their sub-par parenting. (end rant)

one day, gamers are going to get so frustrated with this type of article that they're going to start taking care of things with violent means. then they'll have to start writing articles about how articles about video games causing violence cause violence...

It's true, that's how I felt every time I beat Donkey Kong. I would slap the closest guy next to me and raise my hands up in the air and scream DONKEY KONG HAS NOTHING ON ME!!!!!!!!

Here we go again! [www.youtube.com]

Gasp. I wonder if aggressive tendencies increase when someone plays..REAL LIFE SPORTS?! Do you think the same areas in the brain go off during most competitive activities?

I wonder if the aggression increases during a hardcore game of MONOPOLY or CHESS or even CANDYLAND.

Let's see those studies, then contrast and compare.

Hey, I am no psychologist.. but these guys are, maybe they're right. Wait! I am a psychologist. It's just that once I started playing a lot of videogames my "psycho" side is coming out...

@Father ColdCuts: I dont think I have a hammer big enough to handle that many stupid people.

The same way as a kid can get his hands on to an adults M rated game, he can also get his hands on to your 2girls1cup VHS, but i don't see that critizised as provoking small children to eat each others feces.

I completely agree with this article! After beating Super Mario on NES back in the day, I had a strong desire to stomp the hell out of turtles and do some mushrooms.

I wonder what they'd find if they applied this same study to sports.

Videogames don't give me violent urges ...

Traffic gives me violent urges.

Ok I read that piece on their website and I'd like to know what "hard-hitting" journalist wrote that one page high-school essay. Did they seriously think they were breaking new ground with this (sarcasm) pulitzer prize worthy article? ( / sarcasm)

Omaha, Nebraska residents, you should be proud! *rolls eyes*

@Irenicus-the one and only: Why have you forsaken me!

Can we stop giving these morons attention now? :(

@Witzbold: With the hammer of THOR! anything is possible!