Violence and Video Games According to NPD, 91 percent of U.S. children ages 2-17 play video games. Violent video games fill children with accomplishment and can help relieve daily stressors. Mortal Kombat in 1993 was the first popular video game to display realistic violence. This game set the stage for years to come with Grand Theft Auto being the next big hit, then Call of Duty following. Nowadays, there are a plethora of video games and the video game industry is more popular than ever. These games have created a big controversy in whether they cause kids to become violent or not. There are many effective ways that keep children safe from violent video games which include the Entertainment Software Rating Board, outdated research that
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In the article “Violent Video Games Do not cause Aggression” David Kushner states “researchers used outdated, mismatched games and required an absurdly brief amount of playtime”.(Kushner, pg3) Researchers are doing outdated experiments on outdated games to prove that violent video games will cause violence in a child’s future. The problem with doing outdated research is that times have changed and so has the video game world. Graphics, play style, and the gaming world, in general, have drastically changed in the past ten years. The diverse world of video games provides children with any game they could dream of instead of one set of games that were made in the 80s, 90s and early 2000s. With so many games creating a diverse world in gaming, there are so many options for kids and many kids are not all choosing violent video games. Using outdated methods of researching violence with video games is crucial because there are so many possibilities and you cannot limit your findings. Violence has not been linked with video games due to the absurd amount of research that people have done that does not coincide with violent video
In the article “Violent Video Games Do not cause Aggression” David Kushner states “researchers used outdated, mismatched games and required an absurdly brief amount of playtime”.(Kushner, pg3) Researchers are doing outdated experiments on outdated games to prove that violent video games will cause violence in a child’s future. The problem with doing outdated research is that times have changed and so has the video game world. Graphics, play style, and the gaming world, in general, have drastically changed in the past ten years. The diverse world of video games provides children with any game they could dream of instead of one set of games that were made in the 80s, 90s and early 2000s. With so many games creating a diverse world in gaming, there are so many options for kids and many kids are not all choosing violent video games. Using outdated methods of researching violence with video games is crucial because there are so many possibilities and you cannot limit your findings. Violence has not been linked with video games due to the absurd amount of research that people have done that does not coincide with violent video