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Violent Videogames Affect Your Brain According To Doogie Howser Imposter

XXLGaming writes, "We received a little press release in our in box today in reference to a new study at the University of Missouri. It seems violent videogames can cause your brain to be less responsive to violence and increase your aggression levels. What do you think? Ok, we couldn't resist poking some fun at their spokesman, Doogie Howser with glasses."

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Monkeyboy4719d ago

I saw the release. As someone with a degree in science, it appalls me to see the headline "Violent Video Games Proven To Increase Aggressive Behavior" followed by text that states "There also could be an unmeasured factor that causes both a preference for violent video games and a smaller brain response to violence." In other words, they're saying that those that showed a violent response to videogames may have already been predisposed to violence. Is that what's passing for scientific proof in Missouri?

QuodEratDemonstrandm4719d ago

It's what passes for scientific evidence for people who don't like violent video games.

I'm not 100% sure there's any way to demonstrate anymore than a moderate correlation between videogame violence and violence out here in the real world. Experimenters are limited quite a bit by ethical and legal boundaries.

An experiment like this doesn't need a control group. It needs a control condition. Responses should have been measured BEFORE the games were played, then AFTER.

Might be why they went with a press release instead of a journal article. Sloppy methodology.

rwallace4719d ago

My fiance has a degree in psychology and she was appauled as well. I just sat here and giggled the whole time as I posted it mostly because the guy really does look like Doogie Howser with glasses on. How can we take him seriously?

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5 Of The Best Narrative Twists In Video Games

GL compiles a list of some of the most mind-blowing video game narrative twists in recent memory, from The Last of Us to Outer Wilds

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Rebel_Scum13h ago

With articles like these cant you tag the games mentioned so that we can know ahead of time if there’s a spoiler to avoid?

Not clicking on your article otherwise.

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The 5 best video game adaptations of popular board games

Discover our top video game adaptations of popular board games, from Bloodbowl to Wingspan & get your board game friends into video games!

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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_looken4d ago (Edited 4d 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_Head2d ago (Edited 2d 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.