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 Send to email | Have Video Games Gotten More Violent? [Originals] in Originals Fallout 3 goty grand theft auto IV |  By AJ Glasser
el 05-Jan-2009 |  This article on GamesRadar has me wondering if violence in video games has gotten more intense ? or is it just more vivid as a result of technology making blood brighter and guts more realistic.
The question matters to me because I just got done playing Fallout 3, a particularly gore-splattered entry in 2008?s blood-saturated lineup of blockbusters. I found the violence upsetting and at times gratuitous (the gore bags the super mutants keep? *puke*), but the game was one my picks for Kotaku?s Game of the Year award. Along with Gears of War 2 and Grand Theft Auto IV, Fallout 3 was a finalist for the 2008 GOTY. Compare these nominations to the titles on major consoles last year and a disturbing trend seems to be forming: the games we highlight are getting more violent. Ultimately, this year's GOTY went to Grand Theft Auto IV ? a game I didn?t nominate because I didn?t like the violence (among other things). The GR article asserts that games have always been violent and that it's a natural byproduct of the medium, so maybe there's nothing wrong with me for not batting an eyelash when a torso goes flying off in one direction while the head and legs fly off in another in Fallout 3. But what does my reaction to violence in video games say about me as a gamer? Am I a hypocrite because I'm cool with dismemberment in Fallout 3, but not violence against women in GTA IV? Has violence become an integral component to video games that I weigh the same as graphics, art and sound when decided what makes a game good? More importantly, what does our GOTY lineup say about us as gamers? Have we come to expect games to have bucketfuls of blood and at least three detachable body parts per enemy? Or are we just reacting to our changing cultural environment the way the GR article asserts?
 
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| Lawmaker launches assault on violent video games | | An Oklahoma lawmaker has proposed levying a new tax on violent video games. Oklahoma Democrat Will Fourkiller has suggested the tax be applied to all games that receive an ESRB rating, which is intended for adults only. In addition, Fourkiller thinks T-Rated games should also have a tax added to the cost of the games, since some include “simulated gambling.” But a tax on all T-Rated ga [..] Read complete article | | Published 03-Feb-2012 by Todd Haselton in GamingLegalESAESRBGrand Theft Autotaxvideo gamesviolenceWill Fourkiller
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| Violent games don?t compel gamers to commit violent acts, researchers say | | A recent study published in Frontiers in Psychology by three Florida State University psychologists suggests that playing video games won’t make people smarter. The study also argues that violent games such as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 don’t damage gamers’ brains or compel them to commit violent acts, the Associated Press said Friday. The research is on a par with studies pe [..] Read complete article | | Published 23-Dec-2011 by Todd Haselton in GamingModern Warfare 3MW3researchstudy
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| Violent games don?t compel gamers to commit violent acts, researchers say | | A recent study published in Frontiers in Psychology by three Florida State University psychologists suggests that playing video games won’t make people smarter. The study also argues that violent games such as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 don’t damage gamers’ brains or compel them to commit violent acts, the Associated Press said Friday. The research is on a par with studies pe [..] Read complete article | | Published 23-Dec-2011 by Todd Haselton in GamingModern Warfare 3MW3researchstudy
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| Violent Gamers Immune to Pain ? of Others [Violent Video Games] |  More scholarship suggests playing violent video games makes one - get ready to have the song stuck in your head, too - "comfortably numb" to others in pain and less likely to help them. Two perfessers cooked up a study in which 320 college students were given violent and nonviol [..] Read complete article | | Published 21-Feb-2009 by Owen Good in violent video games Psychology Research Study
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