What: The what is the idea that video games have a negative effect on the people who play them. Many believe that gaming causes people to become less empathetic and cause violent behaviors. The government has put regulation on video games, such as the ratings on the games and different age groups can not buy games without a parent consent. This rule was created after Brown vs. Entertainment Merchants Association. Many scientist from all different university have conducted studies to see if empathy levels lower after playing a violent video game. Many have said the study shows this is true. However, it can not be said yet whether violent tendency's are more likely to happen after playing a video game. The positive side to video games is learning aspect of games, such as educational games. As well as hand-eye coordination.

When: This controversy has been going on since the !980's until present day. Starting with Ronnie Lamm trying to set regulation on how close an arcade is to a school.

Where: The locations for gaming controversy has really at this point gone world wide. Turkey recently tried to pass a law banning a game called Minecraft from the country. However, many first world countries usually are the ones that have controversies, such as Japan, the U.s, U.K, and Austrialia.

Why; The reason these people are having controvsy over the violence of video games is because each are trying to make the country safer. Since video games have become more violent many feel it has influenced the violent behavior in children more than it had in the past. Others believe that it is a good relaxing method and helps people learn in a fun way.

the fact that violent video games don't trigger people to go on a shooting spree.

I honestly feel that scientists/researchers don't have good enough evidence to

tell the gaming community otherwise. 'Gamer rage' can happen every now and

then, but no matter how many violent games one plays, the game itself should

not be the reason for real life violence.

So concerning violence in video games, it's all about perspective. Considering that I am very familiar with video games and the 'violence' within them, If you have a 13 boy and a 26 year old man, who do you think is more influenced by the game? I am stable enough to understand the difference between reality and a game. The two never intermix. Some people cannot handle that or do the same. They think shooting/stabbing people is okay. People who are not mentally strong enough to decipher the difference should not get the privilege of playing. These video game producers, like bioware, Bethesda, and even older producers like zenimax and capcom, never intended to influence people to have violent tendencies. They want people to feel important by making them the hero who can do things that many can't, including fighting styles and the like, so people get pulled into the story of the game. Most of these protagonists are average people. Take Leon Kennedy, he used to be a dumb kid and then became a super cool agent saving the president's daughter. Even Wesker isn't that much of a bad influence! It all depends on your state of mind, as I said way up there.

I appreciate what all of you had to say. Andrew I actually never new that, "Gamer Rage," was a word for what scientist believe happens to people when they become violent after playing violent games. Christina, thank you very much for commenting back on my wall. I see your view point on money still. However, I still personally believe that college is more of a transition period into life than just going straight to the work force. So, I still stand by my original argument. Rachel I understand where you are coming from with your argument about different age group my be effected. Such as a 13 and 26 year old, I may have to do even deeper research on the subject. But I still personally believe that violence does not effect the mind or at least I am trying to prove that. The games may effect the mind but in a positive way.