I've been here since 2001, so almost 12 years. But I don't think it was videogames.com when I came, pretty sure it was just gamespot. I came when a google search led me to the system wars forum. 

So? As the title says. Does anyone remember the ZDNet forums? Just how many reiterations have these forums been through anyway?

This is no accomplishment.

this site is soooo strict it just happens..kingdavid562

I think a lot of the research out there regarding "video games increasing violent behavior" is just pretty much pointless. I do agree with you though. I'm actually writing a research essay as to how video games can benefit some certain qualities, and one of my counter-arguments dealt with this one study regarding the University of Iowa. It wasn't even a study to me. All they did was a meta-analytic review of already pre-existing scientific journals that had already conducted other studies. Basically they said violent video games are linked to aggressive behavior. There's too many inconsistencies in this one journal, but I'm starting to believe a lot of them are like this.

toxic_jackal

I did a similar essay for university a while back, and many of the journals are similar. There's one researcher, Craig Anderson (google scholar it), who writes a ton of entries on this topic. He also cites his older articles as part of his evidence. On one of his journals he cited himself 7 times for supporting evidence.

(tendencies) Thanks to the topic limit.

I've been researching this topic lately, and if you feel the need for proof check any reliable database and you'll see that the majority of researchers agree that the aggression level is increased when someone plays violent video games. From that they conclude that violent video games encourage violent acts.

These are usually from independent studies or observations where a subjective note is made regarding any noticable increase in aggressiveness.

Now, if one were to check other sources that these researchers are citing, the list is quite surprising. All of the sources are other studies that say the same thing. This is pretty common when trying to prove a point, but something is noticeably absent. The video games themselves are never used as a source. The researchers never seem to explain what about the video game might cause violent tendencies, or even what games were used.

I've come to a conclusion that researchers would have a different opinion on the effects of violence in video games if they took the time to play the games themselves and record their own reactions. It would make for a more interesting study anyhow.

Anyway, what do you think?

Also, if you have 2 minutes or so (maybe less), feel free to take this survey on the subject

http://www.esurveyspro.com/Survey.aspx?id=91dd0642-a995-49f7-87e5-26351c2b4e23

it's just something I'm researching for fun. Take it or don't, I just ask that you finish it, because unfinished ones are still submitted for some reason and it skews everything.

edit: That assumption about most researchers is just from some time spent looking at academic articles on the subject. I know that there are some articles for the other side of the argument, but those were few and far between.

I don't know actually, it might be, Oblivionfan10

[QUOTE="Wakeboard_Dude"]What are you talking about? Turok 2: Seeds of Evil got a 9.0 on GS.Foxtrot561

I'm talking about Turok for the Xbox360, PS3, and PC. It came out in early 2008.