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I'm confused on this article's explanation/interpretation. Is the study saying that the kids would become desensitized to the video game violence and have less sleep trouble from playing games over time? As in they would be saying that it's bad for you at first, but it has less of a negative effect on you once you get used to it? It doesn't sound like they're saying anything about real life violence, but yet the article seems to be implying that their interpretation is that video game violence is desensitizing kids to violence. I don't think that's within the scope of this study at all. It sounds as though the study is specifically looking at the health effects of playing violent video games. To which they found there was a correlation between playing a hyper-violent game as manhunt with stressful sleep problems.


This seems like a completely different discussion from the "games make people commit crimes" type discussion. I hadn't heard much on this specific issue before. It's unfortunate that this article so poorly explains it and comes of as if this is a study on video game violence perpetuating real life violence.


I think this topic is similar to scary movies. Just as how when kids will watch a horror movie, they'll often have more difficulty sleeping and more stress that night, it seems as if very violent video games can have similar effect. I guess it's probably not all that surprising.

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Hmm well let's think. RDR - May 18th 2010, LA Noir - May 17th 2011, Max Payne 3 - May 15th 2012.

Then GTA comes along and we get all this idiotic articles on fall/winter releases, as if they were going to release a new game months after their last release. It is so clear and has been so clear that GTA V will be released in May 2013, that I'm completely baffled as to why there exist so many articles on this.

Next month they'll announce the release date of something like May 14th or 21st (Tuesday), and we'll get even more articles making it out to be a huge surprise and a big deal.

Come on guys.