Violent Video Games

Video games are enjoyable for people and have good benefits for children who use their multiple skills to play and interact with others. In many parts of the world, the common video game is often seen by parents as something that is wasting their child's time or “rotting their brain”. It is a popular misconception that video games are bad for children. What parents do not know is the positive things about video games. Video games have a positive impact on people and help them learn things for experiences to come. People often do not understand that violent video games are not harmful to people because video games allow people to release their anger, video games decrease crime in youth, and because they allow people to be creative and test their

Since video games have been introduced, video games have been accused of contributing too many atrocities, and acts of violence. News outlets paint video games as being a source of which some acts of violence happen. Yes, violent video games have become more popular, meanwhile becoming controversial, but still there exist no links between aggression and video games. The University of Bologna says that “owning videogames does not in fact seem to have negative effects on aggressive human behavior” (Koffler par.7). Meanwhile, news outlets keep on missing the point on how beneficial video games are. Video games do not contribute to violence, can be educational, and they can improve us in different ways.

The article by J. Ramirez, Clinton Village News, states that Violent Video Games Harm Our Kids ensuring the reason of violence in young people who have played countless hours of violent video games.

Is it possible that some of today's most popular yet most violent role-playing games might have a severe negative impact on today's world? In today's world, many teens are involved in a variety of games with simulated violence included in them. Although they are popular, these games have received a lot of controversy over the years. “Twenty-year-old Adam Lanza was obsessed with the violent lifelike video battle games that he played at the large suburban home where he lived alone with his mother, a teacher who became the first victim of his horrific shooting spree in December of 2012.” (6 Murders whose killings are linked to video game obsession). Events like this are unfortunately common which results in people being concerned about the games causing real-world problems. Others have brought up concern about the content and others about their purpose. If these games are as hazardous as they are said to be, they should not be permitted or tolerated at all because of the range of problems they can cause. Even though some believe they are okay I strongly believe role-playing games with simulated violence have a negative impact on teens because, violent role-playing games waste too much time, influence violence, and cause bad behavior.

In 2008 an eight year-old intentionally, living in slaughter louisiana,shot his grandmother in the head right after playing grand theft auto IV. In America the rate of mass shootings and obesity each year. Video Games also teach antisocial behavior. Video games are responsible for increase of violence in schools, desensitizing American youth, and prompting unhealthy behaviors.

Ever since the first video game came out people have been inventing more and more realistic games and parents just keep on blaming games for the terrible decision their kids are making. In the book called From the Heart Land I found an interesting research finding published in Child Development “children seem to be able to process only one type of stimuli at a time.” This research finding just makes me think that games can be good because it helps their stimulus. First, we will talk about how games are not affecting the decisions the people are making. Second, we will talk about how playing games can benefit people. Finally, I will talk about serial killers that were affected by psychotic break down and not games.

According to U.S. News, “video game sales are one of the biggest markets in the U.S. and with that juvenile crime rates have decreased.” Because of violent video games many teens and young adults are playing the games instead of going outside and committing crimes. According to BBC News, “the long term consequences of crime and actual violent behavior, there is no evidence linking violent video games with that. Violent video games are played by millions of people, and very few commit crimes connected to playing violent video

Grand Theft Auto 5, one of the year's bestselling titles, allows players to kill prostitutes and torture characters, which sparked fierce debate on whether game makers have a moral responsibility to their audience.” Critics claim that violence in video games creates negative behaviors in reality but yet fail to accept beneficial soothness that these virtual worlds bring to gamers. But those dangers alone shouldn't discourage people from giving games a chance any more than we should shun television because it traffics in adult themes, not when there's so much to celebrate and still so much room for improvement. Video games are profoundly cognitive in an ideal position of having an adverse effect on the production of knowledge and perseverance. Stereotypically, video games disrupt mental awareness, body fitness, and productiveness. In circumstances of neglect and emptiness of oneself’s individuality in society, video games provide genuine warmth and compatibility in a virtual state. For example, in the same article beforehand, Nicholas Lioa makes this argument, “As both games and those who play them keep branching out, the definition of gaming will continue to change. It's true that gaming's qualities have an underside. The same technology that creates experiences of empathy can also offer escape from reality… the advent of more thoughtful

The evolution of video games has taken a drastic change since the 1970’s when video games were first introduced. Since then every decade video games have become more violent in nature with strong language and realistic to suit society today. Craig Anderson states that with more violence in video games they would sell better than games with less violence (Anderson, Gentile, and Beckley pg.5). Violent video games really became popular when the first person shooter games were invented so that we could see through the eyes of the player, as if we were really experiencing it. Society wanted better graphics and games as time went on new technology was invented and society matured in electronics. This meant that for game creators would have to come up with something better selling than the last. Creators would make the games more violent and more realistic each time so that way they can keep the interest of their consumers. Each game would increase in blood or gore slowly, but what really got consumers to buy their games would be the update of graphics in the consoles or games. This is due to the drastic changing of technology and the maturing of consumers wanting better and newer violent video games. Violent video games can cause children to behave violently if not correctly supervised.

may not know that the content of certain games could affect the social and emotional development of their child, and may even be hazardous to children's health.

Violent games are often played by kids, and kids are the main group of people who have desire to win. So, this mentality causes them get more and more angry, which may directly led to crimes. It is easy to have a casual effect after losing a game. That could makes people want to play another round, until they addicted into games. Children are still growing, and they start another game because they lose the last game, and this cycle will make the children more addictive. If games play more, they will feel immersive, it will give people a fake impression, and will affect the children 's growth. Also it influencing people’s time, this may cause children have less time to feel our planet, the outside world. Some of them are limited by violent video games, because they already addicted by those games. Secondly, violent behavior in reality is often caused by violent video games. People who likes to play violent video games are easy to get confused about reality and virtual. People are very focus when they play games, games could let people feels they are the character in the game. It could make people get angry, and once they finished their game, back to reality, they also may still think about the game, and want to have a chance to experience it, whether the result is as same as the game or not, and this could lead them to have a strong violent behavior in reality. Violent video games may change

Technology is constantly improving. According to Moore 's Law, computer processors double in speed approximately every 18 months (Stephen). This trend can be used to say that the rate at which technology grows is exponential. As our gadgets get smaller and smaller, they get stronger and more powerful than its predecessors. A video game is technology that we sometimes seem to overlook. Video games have come a long way since the very first one was made in 1958. It was a tennis game made by a physicist and was very similar to Pong in terms of style and game mechanics. Video games have evolved so much in the past couple of decades. Recent games have incredible graphics and the overall gameplay and story, in games like The Last of Us, are astounding. One thing to note is that studios have began to incorporate more and more violence into their games. Unfortunately this has lead to people outside of the gaming discourse to criticize and disparage video games as being a direct cause to violence in users. This is a fallacy that needs to be disproven. Throughout the rest of this research paper I will argue that there is no correlation between playing video games and exhibiting violent behavior.

According to Roni Caryn Rabin people who play video games much more than other people were more likely to experience depression, anxiety, and social phobias. This is important because video games aren't a harmless thing that we do to have fun, it has affected people's lives in so many different ways. The author wants the reader to understand the dangers of playing too much computer games and to make sure they know the dangers of it before it gets too bad. In a 2011 article “do Video Games cause Depressed Teenagers?” New York Times writer Roni Caryn Rabin explains that people from the ages of 13 to 18 who used the internet often had twice as much chance to gain depression from those who don't regularly use it. This is important because most of those who used the internet used it for mostly video games and games do play a role in the corruption of younger people. This proves that not only do computer games play a huge role in the reason why children are so overweight in this country but it also shows that it could be bad for your mental health. As expressed video games are helpful in some ways but the bad effects are much more severe than the good

Video games were first introduced in the 1940’s and since then they have evolved greatly. A half-billion people on earth play video games an "hour a day," of whom 183 million are American. In fact, 97 percent of American young people ages 12 to 17 play video games (Jane McGonigal). There is a huge number of young people that play video games daily, many whom play it way longer than in hour. Video games are an everyday task to many people, but they do not realize the harm it can cause.

Controversy about video games continue to escalate between parents and gamers, regarding the psychological effect of simulated, realistic, and 3D violence on the minds of young children and growing teenagers. Yet, research shows that video games contribute very little to today’s everyday violence, despite complaints and concerns that games influence a child’s normal behavior. Technology is a way of life in today’s world, computers are used by toddlers, adolescents, and adults alike. No matter what career path a person chooses, the computer plays an essential role in the job. The more our technology progresses and as our industry grows stronger, computers and electronic entertainment will grow to be found everywhere around the world. This includes videogames.