Eight Ideas About Video Gaming Examined

[Keer]

In your FACE, illogical people!

/hi5 PBS

[Merlyn]

wow that's cool, thanks for posting

[Jabe Adaks]

Now maybe my mom will give me my Atari 2600 back after all these years...

Jabe

[Sai'nu]

Does this mean it's ok to blow up the U.N. trucks for 100pts again?

Sorry... lil movie humor there. Toys!

[Keer]

Check their little Arcade section. The first quiz is way too easy. But "name that old school game tune" is cool.

[X'an Shin]

Yeah, saw that a couple weeks back.

Unfortunately the University of Michigan just released a "scientific" study that shows that kids are now "less sensitive to violence" after playing violent video games. I'm just tired of people desperately trying to link video games to violence. It seems no matter how many times science puts forth good articles like this one, there's ten more idiots trumping up flawed science to try and put it back down again.

As Kotaku put it: No study yet identifying a lack of sensitivity to death after being forced to watch Steel Magnolias ten times in a row yet.

[Griven]

Great article. I wonder if any of those scientists and lobbyists have children who play these videogames?

[warsloth]

Number 7 really applies to me, as I used to play DAOC with my ENTIRE family.
The MMO is possibly THE most social game.

[xyryn]

Not to worry. As the gaming population becomes pervasive, this kind of fear among adults will disappear. 90% of boys and 40% of girls, this year, play. As we can all attest, you don't stop playing when you hit 18.