violent games
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No, Walmart Isn’t Telling Its Stores To Remove Violent Video Games
One day after Walmart asked employees to remove signage for “violent” video games, a news report said that Walmart is going one step further and ceasing sales for most video games. According to a Walmart representative speaking with Kotaku, that is not the case.
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Hey, Pat Robertson, Is Playing A Violent Video Game A Sin?
Famous evangelical old person and all-around bigot Pat Robertson weighed-in on video game violence, despite never having played one in his life. “If you’re murdering somebody in cyberspace, in a sense you’re performing the act, you like it or not,” Robertson exclaimed on The 700 Club, comparing playing a violent game to other acts of…
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You Won’t Believe This Violent Video Game Theory
Professor Dong Wong Cho of Chungbuk Provincial College in South Korea has an idea about violent video games. And it’s truly bonkers. According to Professor Cho’s latest study, violent video games make graphics cards run hot and emit more radio waves. Thus, the scholar argues, this means violent video games are more harmful for the…
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All That Ultraviolence Bothers The People Who Make Video Games, Too
Did all the neck-stabbing, animal-killing, city-destroying carnage at E3 stand out to you this year? Whether you were there in person or not, it was hard not to notice the uptick in egregious on-screen violence at the 2012 edition of the expo and that rising trend dominated much of the talk coming out in the…