moreee violence!

The PsychCentral Website continues to research the affect of violence and video games.

http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2008/05/17/the-link-between-video-games-and-violence/

The website explaores what the research does show, in a nutshell, then is this:

*Teens who are already angry or aggressive likely should be limited in their playing of violent video games
*Teens should not play M-rated games

The first fact is pretty standard if you ask me! I would already have assumed that kids and teens that are already angry are more likely to be affected by violent video games! Kids that deal with anger should not be surrounded with things that might continue to make them angrier. I would think they would want to be surrounded with things and people that lift them up and help their mood, not the opposite!

I know the rating system for video games are made to ensure that younger kids arent exposed to more than they should be at their age, but how accurate are the ratings? Speaking from personal eperience, my parents didnt really care about the ratings when it came to which video games they bought for me and my brother. I think hat the rating systems are wayy to serious anyways. SOme of the games that are rated mature that i have personally played shouldnt be, because there isnt anything on the games that are that bad. On the other hand there are games that are extremely bad! Girls getting raped, and killed, kids that deal with anger problems should definitely not be playing these games!