Video game controversy

issue. In the year 2005, California started to take action on an issue that has been addressed multiple times before. Violent videogames have become a growing concern to states everywhere. California passed a law that prohibited the sale of violent video games to kids under the age of eighteen (Jacobs 17). Many people see videogames as too realistic and gory for children. They want to protect them from something that may encourage them to do something violent, or illegal. Violent videogames…

The Columbine High School Massacre was a controversy among society questioning the public. The two teenagers who did this inhumane act were keen playing participants of Wolfenstein 3D and Doom. An estimate of 97% of young adults participate in the entertainment of virtual experiences, influencing the gaming industry whom are responsible for national violent video game sales. Video games contribute to youth violence. I have many reasons to support my claim, the two most significant supporting…

describe video games. I’ve been playing video games for over five years now and have noticed the increase in violence. I remember one of the first really violent games I played “Grand Theft Auto: Vice City”. As an 8 year old kid playing this game, rated M for mature, filled with lots of death, sex, and abuse of drugs and alcohol it led to be the gateway into my life of playing violent video games. I believe that video games are not the cause for making people violent. This is because violent…

Video Gamings Video games can teach us many things, since many games today are multi-player online they can help your social skills. They can help you think new ways to solve problems for example say you are stuck in a certain level in the game it will have you thinking different way to beat, and playing video games could even make you a living, some Youtubers don’t have jobs but they make their living by playing video games same with game testers, pro gaming teams or MLG teams, and even the…

Violence in Video Games: Does it Cause Real Violence? Violence in video games has been a popular topic of debate for years among the populace, particularly after some terrible events occurred in recent past, such as Columbine, a tragic school shooting for which people put the blame on video games. The people always want something to blame when things go wrong and this just happens to be one of them. People fear that which they do not understand and one of the things for people of past…

beliefs, violent video games do not spawn violence. According to an article on nobullying.com, “68 percent of all American households play computer or video games. Of this, 25 percent are under the age of 18.” As a matter of fact, 15.5 percent of games are rated Mature with around two billion dollars coming in each year from mature video games. With this amount of revenue, there is no way the gaming industries will ever stop producing violent video games. While the number to video games…

are many ways to entertain oneself through modern media. All of these mediums have a varying level of interactivity in them and the most interactive can be seen as video games. This interactive study is based on the notion that violence in video games is the cause of violence in the real world due to the interactive nature of video games. I find this topic significant due to many other outlets of media either condemning violence in gamings or using violence in gaming as a scapegoat as the cause…

being drawn from reality into a violent and inappropriate place for a child to be. These games are not only distancing loving parents from their children; the games may actually be making kids more aggressive. Videogames can lead to violence by putting the player under a mountain of stress, distancing the player from a good source of guidance, and desensitizing the player to violence. To start, video games can be a huge cause of stress in the lives of some people. Stress is proven to be…

the perpetrators of these terrifying crimes, all share in common? They all loved to play violent video games. But these boys are not the only ones to play such games, and a study done by Healthline in 2014 concluded that over 90% of children in the United States have played video games of some sort and around 90% of video games portray some violence (Barclay). Though many people believe video games to…

common for someone to own some sort of entertainment system. Video games have come a long way over the years, from arcade machines in the local arcade to personal game systems with astonishing realism. Video games are open to all ages, but attracts a great deal of the younger crowd. The stereotypes surrounding the gaming community have given video games a poor reputation, which in turn worries parents. People have come to believe that video games are a waste of time that lead to social…