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President Trump showed a weird frag montage in his video game violence meeting

US President Donald Trump yesterday held a private meeting to discuss the issue of violence in video games, having suggested after February's murders at a school in Parkland, Florida that it "is really shaping young people's thoughts." This would clearly amount to nothing productive, given mostly industry representatives and conservative pressure groups were attending, but it is a surprise that Trump showed attendees a short…

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Trump’s White House video games meeting has a very concerning list of invitees

By John Walker • 2 years ago • 111

The list of invitees to US president Donald Trump's White House video games meeting today has been released. And it's a sorry sight, including names from notorious right-wing censorship advocacy groups, and not a single qualified expert on the topic.

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American Psychological Association Continues Bad Science Relating To Video Game Violence

By John Walker • 4 years ago • 141

Edit: A previous version of this story incorrectly stated that the open letter was in response to the APA's latest publication. It has been updated to be more accurate. Despite a coherent effort by academics to stand up to the bad science about video games being spread by the American Pyschological Association, they have released another study making all the same mistakes. Unfortunately, the APA…

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Survey: Babies Most Likely To Be Eaten By GTA V

By John Walker • 6 years ago • 155

Tis the season for it. As people who do important things get distracted by baubles, the press starts to look for anything to fill their pages, and canny PR companies begin sending out headline-filling anythings to fill the void. So it is that today we've been contacted by babies.co.uk to let us know that mums (just mums, apparently) are most scared of their precious ones…

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Study Finds Violent Games Reduce Violence – Hmmmm

By John Walker • 7 years ago • 141

Polygon reports news of a study mentioned in the New York Times that says it demonstrates the rise in sales of violent videogames does not cause a spike in the rates of violent youth crime. In fact, they say, it may even lower it. Hurrah! you might cry. But let's stop and do some science.

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Feature: Vultures

How The Daily Mail Uses Tragedy To Spread Gaming Fear

By John Walker • 7 years ago • 349

The Daily Mail has again tried to prove that playing games is deadly. The tragic story of a 14 year old who killed himself has been twisted by the national newspaper, in a attempt to profit from his death by propagandising the cause of his suicide. This is too sad.

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