Kotaku - Sure, there have been no scientific studies that connect violent video games to violence, but why let nonsense like science reflect the way you think?
As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.
And yet the biggest tech companies in America are essentially that. They buy up all the small comps only to kill them off and steal what they have, and if they can't buy em they bleed them to death.
They buy IPs not talent. That's why these buyouts never work and the IPs die. Right now it's too expensive to develop games - but I expect that to shift maybe as AI tools can make it easier. The best games have been indie games for awhile as big developers fuck their ips to death with "games as a service" -
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.
"The best games of the year and the creative teams behind them were in the spotlight at the grand award ceremony of the German Computer Game Award 2024." - German Computer Game Awards.
So stop buying violent videogames for your kids noone here would mind, it would clean up the online community of a lot of games.
Anything with with violence contributes to actual violence. Whack a mole.
The research has been done. Funded by the US government. It can be found in the book Grand Theft Childhood.
Buy it from Amazon for £3.18 and read it. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gra...
Here is the website for the study: http://www.grandtheftchildh...
Then there was the study and report by Patrick Kierkegaard http://www.sciencedaily.com...
So why try and reinvent the wheel when the facts are already known?
First its the parents fault for being dumb and buying "M" rated games for their 5 year old (or at least under 17/18).
2nd: You have to be pretty f@$% in the head to go out and kill people (let alone kids), so anything would make a nut job worst.
Its funny on how its so easy to blame something else and not talking the blame for just being dumb. Plus 75%? So how many people?
then we have 75% parents that need to blame something for there bad parenting .