The influence of violent videogames

Here’s an interesting view on the whole video game controversy and on the way violent videogames influence human behaviour.

First, check the following link, containing the US National Crime Victimization Survey of Violent Crime Trends, 1973-2005. After that, take a look at the graph generated from that data, along with the release dates of some games that are considered to be violent…

Violent Games

Quite the opposite to what we’re told, isn’t it? :D

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8 comments
  • EpsDel

    Mortal Kombat 4 is the biggest reduction factor!!

  • RedGuard

    So, should we understand that with the emergence of video gaming the actual killings went from reality to the virtual one? And furthermore, how many virtual frags make up a normal killing, just because one day I’ve done about 2 000 kills in Unreal Tournament :D

    Anyway, interesting fact, the government has nothing on me!

    Happy killing everyone!

  • http://www.tudy.ro Tudy

    It’s just a different view. We’ve usually been told that violent videogames create violent behaviour. Which is not reflected in the stats… Of course, that doesn’t mean that the native violent tendencies are not influenced, and that people don’t actually become more agressive, but choose to deal with that in a “virtual” environment.

  • EpsDel

    Or even physically, using the keyboard or the display (not me!)

  • http://www.tudy.ro Tudy

    Game over! Smash keyboard in 3… 2… 1… :D

  • EpsDel

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=jgYwRj1qCUk

    Sper ca se manifesta numai la calculator asa.

  • EpsDel
  • http://www.myspace.com/diana4184 Diana

    The reason crime rate has gone down is because everyone is too busy playing video games to commit crimes, haha. There are, however, some harmful aspects of violent games and one of them is desensitization to such violence. That does not mean it makes players want to kill people, but it can make it a little easier to pull that trigger, especially when the video game becomes a reality in a person’s mind. Take Guild Wars, for example. I can play inside the game with my little character and be very “into it.” But I also know and remember it is just a game and I can always pull out back to this reality. It’s when people, and especially younger children, who play a game for many hours, long enough that it becomes a reality to them. Sometimes, that reality is just as real as this reality, and in a way, it can be just as real because this reality, too, is nothing but another video game. So yeah, the lines of reality can be blurred if you are unable to distinguish all of these spheres.