Gaming Violence Study Guinea-Pig Speaks Out

ViRGE writes "HomeLAN Fed has an interesting article up about the experiences of one of their writers being involved in a gaming violence study. What did they find? 'With the set-up of these games, whether the researchers did it intentionally or not, the violent games that I played anyway were set up to be frustrating to play.' Maybe games aren't as destructive as we once thought, and it's the lab techs that are?" Clearly, an incompetent mouselook technician doesn't mean an unfair rap for all violent games, although the piece does make some good points about creating a fair context for these studies.

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Results of interview

[AtariAmarok]

(AP) Bud McSchutin, the violent videogame guinea-pig, vanished today during a police interview. He was being questioned in regards to a string of car thefts that occured after he spent three weeks playing "GTA Vice City". When questioned about this, he mumbled something about going to find a hooker to boost his health. At this point, he is alleged to have entered godmode and escaped the interrogation room by floating away through a solid wall.

Police in a neighboring county are also putting a warrant out for his arrest in regards to several indicents of vandalism involving smashed bricks at construction sites and overturned tortoises at the zoo, rumored to have occured immediately after McSchutin's "Super Mario Bros" marathon."