Friday 7 August 2015

Violence in Video Games



Video games these days are becoming more and more violent and graphic year by year. This raises the argument that it also makes the children playing these games have a much more violent nature.

Ever since columbine, where two  students went on a deadly rampage at their high school, television, movies and the big one, video games have been a popular  mark for meaningless acts of violence. After the shooting the two shooters, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebolds feelings for violent video games as well as metal music and Goth culture were to blame for the horrific incident.

But this incident hasn’t made teens move away from playing video games especially violent video games. Matter of fact approximately 90% of teens in the U.S play video games and more than 90% play games which involve mature explicit content. Fears about how violent video games could affect teens in real life have led legislators to propose everything from taxing violent video games to creating age restrictions for those who can purchase the games.

Working with 3,034 boys and girls in the third, fourth, fifth, seventh and eighth grade in Singapore, Anderson and his colleagues asked the children three times over a period of two years thorough questions about their gaming lifestyles and tested with a questionnaire to see their violent behaviour and approaches towards violence. As a result of this test, students declined throughout the years because as they get older they tend to act less aggressively because they learn more mature ways of handling conflicts rather than resulting to violence. But for the kids who played longer hours were indeed more prone to violence and were asked if they were to be talked negatively about would they strike the other and most answered with yes, which shows that games do result to a violent nature.


Anderson and his colleagues research on violence and gaming did show that students were more prone to violence especially ones who played longer but why haven’t I went on a massive killing rampage slaughtering innocent people for no reason, Anderson?

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