|
Search the News Archive |
Spoilers are currently disabled. (All newsposts are visible.) |
November 24, 2004 Link to this post
The hysteria is building.
omnistegan points out yet another morning news special on the horrible
effects of violent videogames on our youth. This one was CTV AM, a national morning show in Canada, and it interviewed the director of Minnesota-based National Institute for Media and the Family, who issued their 9th annual video game report card today. Once again, Halo is lumped in with games like GTA: SA. In the video segment (direct feed for folks who can't watch it in-page), he actually claims that a recent study (this week, apparently) shows that 'the anger center of the brain activates and the control center of the brain deactivates' - but he doesn't actually give any reference for this, and he doesn't discuss WHICH games were looked at. (He doesn't even really talk about what this MEANS.) I gotta say - guys like this activate MY anger center. If anyone actually has a reference to this particular study (if it does, in fact, exist, and is peer-reviewed science), I'd love to post it. Thanks! (Louis Wu 19:07:55 UTC)
