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Are Video Games Really The Villains In Our Violent Age?

guardian.co.uk: The Sandy Hook school massacre has revived concerns about the effects of first-person shooter games, but some of them are actually good for you
The number of aliens you kill may directly contribute to an improvement in your brain. This may not sound like a typical scientific discovery, but it has come from some of the world's finest neuroscience laboratories. In fact, it is the genuine outcome of studies on how action video games can improve your attention, mental control and visual skills.

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GreenRanger4133d ago

Short answer: No.
Long answer: Hell no.

MmaFan-Qc4133d ago (Edited 4133d ago )

sad thing is, the medias(mostly retarded, blatantly childish and double standard medias) tend to point at everything else excepted the individual who commit an horrible acts, on that note, i guess classical music is to be blamed for the genocide and hateful crimes Adolf Hitler did since he was a big fan of Richard Wagner...

Ezz20134133d ago

@greenranger_

****"Long answer: Hell no."****

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d3nworth14133d ago

Considering the fact that people have been involved with violence for thousands of years. Blaming video games which have only been around for like 42 years is retarded.

FoxHound_4133d ago

If you were going to a school to shoot up little kids or anyone for that matter, you had that problem way before you started playing video games.

Anon19744133d ago

Exactly. It's nice to see articles looking at the positive effects of videogames for a change.

YourGreatUncle4133d ago

It all starts in the home. Blaming video games is a scapegoat for parents not to take the blame on themselves. If my kid ever went postal and shot a place up I'm not gonna blame video games. I'm gonna blame myself. It's the parents job to explain to the child that video games are a work of fiction not reality. I'm gonna be saying to myself well maybe if I had listened to him more, involved myself in his life more, or maybe if I did this different. One of the last things I'll say is video games made him do it.

rainslacker4133d ago

The thing is, is there's no reason for all these parents to blame themselves for what happened. They didn't have any influence in these shooter's lives. In some cases you could blame the parents of the person committing the crime, or you could do what is done more commonly in most crimes and blame the damn person who commits them. Outrageous concept I know.

YourGreatUncle4133d ago

Well I know the blame is one the person that committed the crime first and foremost. The thing is most people can't accept that a person is just messed up or well evil. They would rather try to find some underlying problem that led the person to commit it in the first place. People can not accept that maybe just maybe the person was a psychopath.

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EKWB reportedly plagued with financial disarray many gaming pc's left without parts

EK Cooling allegedly has slipped itself into a hot soup of seemingly endless financial woes, where it has not paid its staff, suppliers, and contractors for many months as the company is facing liquidity problems and a surplus of inventory left unsold, stuck in the warehouse for a more extended period. Gamers Nexus investigated these claims made by former and current personnel, where he found trails of unpaid bills lasting as long as three to four months and unpaid raises that accumulated for almost a year.

EK Water Blocks has two entities—a Slovenian-based headquarters and a US-based subsidiary, EK Cooling Solutions. Steve narrated the series of events in detail, stating that the company was reportedly irresponsible and negligent regarding payment. Consequently, partners and employees are forced to share the burden of alleged mismanagement. It all begins with its extensive range of products, leading to a surplus of goods. EK has over 230 water blocks, 40 liquid cooling kits, 85 reservoirs, 40 pumps, 73 radiators, and 212 miscellaneous accessories.

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just_looken2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

Yes this is not about video games directly but indirectly this will impact the pc gaming/workstation space hard.

This company is massive one of two in the water cool space so if it goes poof then thousands out there have no spare parts or half built computers.

SO yeah i know not about a video game but think of it as amd leaving the pc space but this is ekwb that could be leaving water cooling in the pc space

Jayz2cents a supporter of there products also has issues
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Giblet_Head3h ago(Edited 3h ago)

As someone that has built a watercooling rig. EK is big, but there's so many numerous watercooling part companies out there. EK's stuff isn't exactly amazing quality for the price compared to others either, it's just ok. Much like Corsair. The impact would be negligible long term. For perspective the majority of my parts are XSPC, at most I use EK for my gpu waterblocks and fittings. Both easily replaceable.

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Indie hit Dredge is getting its own movie adaptation

Rob Webb of KnowTechie writes: We're still waiting on the details, but this video game adaptation promises to be seriously creepy.

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The INDIE Live Expo 2024 event is to feature over 100 game titles

INDIE Live Expo, Japan’s premiere online digital showcase series , will debut never-before-seen games & content updates across more than 100 titles on May 25th.