Video Gaming

We live in an age reliant upon technology, mobiles, sat. nav, laptops, TVs and Games Consoles. Many games have been in the headlines for being to gruesome for anybody to play and has been blamed by many for violence.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/1036088.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7034179.stm

This article below i found interesting, schools using Grand Theft Auto to show the realities of violence in the world. Which i found really bizarre as last year or so thats all we saw on the news about the danger that video games such as GTA which i remember was specifically targeted for the violence within the game and the impact it was having on children (second article below is a story about GTA being blamed for violence-shooting)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/apr/09/violence-games-schools-education
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/07/13/earlyshow/living/parenting/main708794.shtml

I think a good games console at the moment is the Wi Console, as i dont believe any violent games are available with this console as it is a much more family entoriated activity, which i think was a good idea by Nintendo, by helping games consoles become a family thing rather than children locking themselves away in rooms seperately.

I dont think games can be blamed for the violence on the streets, parents should be fully aware of the age rating on the games to a certain age there should be some type of monitoring going on with those more violent games. An awful lot can influence violence whether it be the neighbourhood, school, friends, home life, tv, music etc. If your going to be violent your going to be violent without the aid of video games making a big enough imapact upon you to carry out violence.