Posts tagged video game violence 
Guns may kill, but video games close second
If there's anything we've learned quite well in the United States over the last six years it's this simple concept: Who needs facts? Facts are messy and they just get in the way of truthiness. In the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre it would be too easy to look at gun control. Republican Utah Gove...
Yet another crime blamed on games
Video games always seem to be blamed for a crime if they are so much as within 1,000 yards miles of the crime scene. Games are the center of attention again after a man went on a shooting spree; he injured 27 before killing himself. Only in America ... except this time it's Germany. The man, identi...
Study to research games' effect on Kiwis
Not to be outdone by the United States and its government-funded study on video game violence, the island nation of New Zealand is funding its own study on the effects of video game violence on Kiwis (the people, not the animal or the fruit). The $140,000 study is being headed by Dr. Gareth Schott, ...
Lack of video games incites teen to violence, says teen's grandmother
A 17 year old boy shot in the thigh by a state trooper after he attempted to choke his grandmother was apparently in a rage because his grandmother had taken away his "violent games". As is usual with the mainstream and local media, the report in Today's THV links the violence to video gam...
