The Importance Of Video Games

In today’s society video games have a large influence on people. We also might be driven to the point of where we are dependent on them. In fact, being so engulfed in video games could help children become more focused.In fact, parents would probably disagree and say that video games wouldn’t be essential to learning because it would probably be considered a waste of time for children and time-consuming. Parents would also disagree with the content of what is in the game, but there is a great possibility that video games could actually make us smarter. Steven Johnson explains that the games we are used to playing can improve our visual intelligence and that it would be good to learn new strategies through gaming. Video games should be an

A ponderous medium of media is video games in co-relation to violence. Video games encourage violent behavior in children as they are at a crucial stage of adaptation.

“According to data recently released by The NPD Group, in 2012, U.S. video game software sales reached $6.7 billion (174.8 million units) and computer game sales were $380 million (13.2 million units)” (Improving Economy). To many, the violent video game industry has turned all adolescents into mass murderers. However, they’re absolutely wrong. Very seldom do adolescents who play violent video games commit acts of violence, and the ones who do usually have a mental disorder. Instead of blaming the tragedies that occur on violent video games, the news media should explain to people that a large percentage of young males play violent video games, indicating that the two are uncorrelated. They should alternatively research other possible solutions to the crisis. In lieu of negatively affecting people’s lives, video games could potentially improve their lives!

The first body of evidence that supports the claim that video games do not cause violence in reality is that “almost all boys and most girls play video and computer games, including games with violent content” (Olsen, Kutner, and Warner 56). This would suggest that if all children play violent video games and video games did in fact cause children to act violently, then all children would be violent. As absurd as this suggestion is, when the claim came

Even though many will say that games featuring simulated violence are “fun to play” or “a way to experience a different lifestyle,” most of the games from these backgrounds promote criminology.

to begin, violence in video games are at an all time high. The acts and crimes you can commit range from, murder, rape, and assault. This demonstrates,especially to children and teens, that violence is okay and you commit all these horrible crimes with no consequences. In the article

Guns. Blood. Death. Three of the most prominent words or actions used to describe video games. Arum Steinbeck wakes up, goes to school, comes home and plays video games. His face glued to the television, he is exposed to gruesome acts of violence. Nonetheless, Arum Steinbeck is not a serial killer. How is this possible? Adolescents who play video games are killers. Dead wrong. 90% of children in the US play video games and 90% of those children play games that involved mature content. Yet, it is possible that not one of these children will grow up to commit serious acts of violence. For most of the children who do end up committing crimes other factors are involved in the equation nonetheless, society tends to blame what they cannot explain. It is easier to blame video games than to accept responsibility for our actions. To put a seranio to words say there is an adolescent drunk driver who gets into a car accident and kills a family. When in court the intoxicated driver will plead not guilty putting the blame on anyone besides themselves. We have fingers to point them. People get in trouble with the law and need a way out, society has made videogame companies a revolving door of allegations that a court of law should find the person rather than the fictional game responsible. In summary, violent video games do not cause real life violence, though some people seems to wish it did.

Are video games the modern day scapegoat for violent behavior among youths? Christopher Ferguson states that video games have become the newest in a long line of scapegoats, “explanations rely on weak social science… In past centuries, a variety of art forms have taken blame for societies problems. From religious text, to literature, to jazz, to rock ‘n’ roll, and rap… People have viewed various forms of media as being responsible for personal failings” (Ferguson 2007). These statements show that society has also had a tendency to blame their shortcomings on whatever seems to be the newest thing to arise in popular culture, and that no real evidence has been found to prove a correlation between aggression and video games. In his argument Ferguson

In their research of violent videogames and the effect on children, they have found that “the simplistic belief that exposure to media violence will lead directly to individual violence is clearly wrong.” (Kutner, Olsen, 2008) I am going to ask you to look deeper than this. I assert that although violent video games are thought to encourage real world violence, they actually help to prevent it.

There has been a lot of controversy over violent video games and their effects on people, especially young children and teenagers. There are many arguments for both sides of the case. On one hand you have the people that feel as though it only makes sense that a violent video game can cause acts of aggression to surface in the underdeveloped, adolescent mind. On the other hand you have those who say that the hostile acts can be traced back to one or more alternate causes. In this day and age when public acts of violence are becoming a common and accepted occurrence, we have to look at any possible source for them with hopes of reducing the number of these atrocities.

While it has been proven that video games and other forms of entertainment can cause a lack of attentiveness, there is not any real evidence to support the things they have been accused of. I know for a fact that several school shootings among other crimes have been associated with the use of violent video games, but there is not any solid evidence that the use of these video games caused people to perform such heinous acts against humanity. One thing that can be said in favor of video games is this: many people in the world’s population use video games and if video games truly were responsible, society would see far more crimes than are seen with drugs. While drugs do pose a threat some people who use them do so in moderation, whereas most people who use video games sometimes spends hours or even their whole day playing them which seemingly makes them a larger threat, but as was said earlier, many people spend hours of their time playing video games, yet shootings and other crimes are dwindling while video games get more popular around the

Video Games have come a long way since their first introduction into the main stream. With video games becoming more sophisticated and using advanced technology, it seems as if video games are closing in on the gap between games and reality. However, as video games become ever so life-like it brings up the question of if the violence associated with video games is having a negative consequence. There have been many accusations over the years over the harm video games are causing children and teenagers. Experiments have been conducted trying to associate a link between video games and aggressive behavior. Even the media has been known to point fingers at video games for the cause of children

Video games software and hardware are among one of the most used consumed electronic devices. My father would tell me how he and his friends used to play arcade games such as Pac-Man, Space Invaders, and Galaxian in his hometown in Guatemala. I remember I would watch him playing Super Mario 64 on our Nintendo 64 when I was a toddler. Several of my peers grew up playing video games on Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft consoles. Millions of consoles have been sold and millions of people have played at least of video game. It has become one of those common household electronics such as televisions, cell phones, and computers. However, video games have never had complete approval from every person is society. There are individuals who view video games as a nuisance, a distraction, a waste of time and money. There are some people who have used video games as a scapegoat in the aftermath of violent and tragic events. Video games with mature themes (such as violence, blood, gore, drugs, innuendo, etc.) have been blamed for making the perpetrators of crimes commit acts of violence. While I can see how video games can viewed as “influencing violence” at first sight, my issue with blaming video games is the lack of support for their argument. This raises the question, “Are video games linked to acts of crime and violence?” and “If so, what evidence suggests that they

Over the years, the popularity of computer and video games has grown. Specifically violent video games make up more than 50 % of the top selling games. These games include violent themes that involve guns, crime, blood, and gore. There is an ongoing belief that these types of games are to blame for the many acts of violence in society and have encouraged America’s youth to act out in aggression. Several organizations, such as the PTC (Parents Television Council) have moved to discourage the development of violent games while also pushing for stronger regulations when purchasing such games. There is also debate among parents and concerns on how games can negatively influence their children. So is there a direct link between video games and violence? The truth is video games do not encourage violence in society based on several factors which include scientific studies, statistics on crime, and prevention measures adopted by game publishers.

The debate of whether violent video games cause our youth to become increasingly violent to each other is getting more complicated as time goes on. Games are readily available to all ages and come to us in various shapes and forms. Our youth is exposed to all kinds of material with the evolution of games and how they are portrayed to the youth. Video games have desensitized our youth, they have given them justification to some of their actions, and have pushed some to commit atrocities against mankind. Video games do promote violence to our youth but at what cost?