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BBC - Blaming the Dark Side of Gaming

Posted by Endo at 23:09 7/2/2004.

There are very few articles in newspapers and on the Internet that dispute the idea of gaming related violence. However, a BBCi Collective journalist, Daniel Etherington, has published his own article on the BBC News website. The article focuses on the imperfections in the argument that games or movies cause an increase in violent crime or anti-social behaviour. It also focuses on the biological elements of the argument, and how the differences between 'nature' and 'nurture' are almost irrelevant in this case.

Social, cultural, ethical and neurobiological issues remain in such a tangle that it is trite and irresponsible of ill-informed commentators to claim that games like Grand Theft Auto are central to terrible crime.

Before such accusations are explicitly made, more credible work has to be done in this area.

Scientific conclusions may well remain elusive for decades. For now, enjoy your gaming.

It is a very interesting read, and well worth doing so if you are so bored and tired of the endless complaints about modern day gaming and how it's corrupting the young, whilst creating a race of super terrorists. The full article is available over on the BBC site, and is a follow up to his article we reported on last week.