I'm sure most of you have seen this breaking news by now. Some lunatic who was playing in a video game tournament of the well known football game series Madden lost, and then went crazy and started shooting people. He killed 2, injured 12. He apparently won the tournament the previous year. If you look at his picture, he looks like a guy with mental problems, and maybe a shut-in. (Kind of like Adam Lanza, the elementary school shooter)
I just thought this was a very rare story, and wanted to say that it pisses me off. Now we - us gamers - will have to hear about mythical links between video games and violence in the media again, for at least a month or two. It's already been proven in numerous scientific studies that there is no link. But the media, as usual, will ignore that.
Hell, it wasn't even a first person shooter game, like call of duty, but a football game, of all things.
http://time.com/5378639/madden-shooting-jacksonville-florida/
I just thought this was a very rare story, and wanted to say that it pisses me off. Now we - us gamers - will have to hear about mythical links between video games and violence in the media again, for at least a month or two. It's already been proven in numerous scientific studies that there is no link. But the media, as usual, will ignore that.
Hell, it wasn't even a first person shooter game, like call of duty, but a football game, of all things.
http://time.com/5378639/madden-shooting-jacksonville-florida/