I can honestly say i have been playing videogames since I can remember. It started with Full Throttle for the PC and hasn't stopped since Call of Duty World at War. I have two jobs and about to graduate college. I have a girlfriend who I live with and some pretty sweet friends I've picked up over the years. In no way shape or form has videogames changed my life. It is a HOBBY, it is never anything else. This goes for everyone. You can say the kid who killed his parents over Halo was addicted, but he wasnt. That was his way of defeating his depression, if he didn't have Halo it would have been something else, a tv show, a certain cd, drugs, anything. Whatever sick problem this kid had has absolutly nothing to do with videogames, it was imbedded into his brain long ago. Videogames are like any other form of entertainment. A DVD can't kill someone, or a song, or a videogame, only people can kill people. Case closed.