[Yorick]

Originally Posted by Jaradu http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/05/0809videogames.html http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...ence-says-bbfc http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/s...016679,00.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology.../21/news.games That was just from a quick Google search, there are plenty more. They also suggest that the only cases where there is a weak link between video games and violence, it is possibly a person's violent behaviour that draws them towards violent video games, not the other way around. Or perhaps they are both results of a completely different factor we aren't considering.

Fair enough. Thanks for posting. All the information I had was that all studies found links.

But then there are folks with vested financial interest in violent games/films being able to have zero consequences, while pandering to the base human instincts and entertainment/stimuli addiction.

Much in the same way that it was "inconclusive" for decades that tobacco caused lung cancer or damage to unborn kids.

I side with the studies proving links, as they make sense considering the line linked to the first post I made concerning imitative behaviour, and socialisation behaviour developed through game playing.

When studies prove than game playing does not teach children/adults about social interaction, then I shall concede.