Game Violence Critics Ignore Community?

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday August 20, 2003 @03:50AM from the sunny-delight-also-violence-danger dept.

Thanks to CNET News for their opinion piece discussing why critics of videogame violence miss the bigger picture. They suggest: "What critics consistently miss is that gaming is very much a social and community activity. This is true every time two fifth-graders rush home from school to play "Zelda" together. But on a broader scale, gaming's socializing effects are even more evident at an event like QuakeCon..." The violent games angle is also discussed intriguingly: "Some research says violent games make kids act more aggressively... But that's what adrenaline does, regardless of the medium.... How that short-term spike translates into the rest of a person's life depends on the socializing effects of everyday influences such as parents and peer groups - including other gamers."

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You're lucky. by Anonymous Coward · 2003-08-20 04:43 · Score: -1, Offtopic

When I first started dating the girl I married, she'd lay a bastard sword between us when we went to bed, to make sure I behaved myself. And she kept a 9mm H&K under her pillow.