Gaming just got a big drop in credibility

Thu Jun 23, 2005 8:57 am by Recusant

A couple in S. Korea killed their baby through neglect after playing World of Warcraft for several hours at an internet cafe. It's stories like these that people latch on to the most I'm afraid; this story is already spreading across the internet, give it a few more days and it'll feature on more mainstream media sources.
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200506/200506140037.html

Thu Jun 23, 2005 8:58 am by freighter fighter

yeah well, asian gamers are maniacs, we all know that.

Thu Jun 23, 2005 9:02 am by Recusant

Jeez, ff, that's generalising just a little bit don't you think? I'm sure kimk will have something to say!
S.Korea is known for having a much larger PC gamer proportion of its population, so it's no surprise that stories such as this (and the other famous story of a man gaming for 14 hours straight in an internet cafe before dying in the bathroom) stem from there.

Thu Jun 23, 2005 5:38 pm by Wilde

Rec, I think ff was joking...

Fri Jun 24, 2005 5:08 am by bret bretonian

There is an article over at gamespot that a 15 year old Japanese boy murdered his parents and its being linked with GTA3. He then blew the house up with home made explosives. Obviously this is one of the things that GTA teaches you to make.

Fri Jun 24, 2005 6:28 am by freighter fighter

thats just f'in stupid

Fri Jun 24, 2005 11:24 pm by The Evil Thing

GTA3 teaches you how to make explosives!? I want me that game!

@Bret
This smacks of media hysteria. Notice it's being linked . Wasn't Manhunt being linked to the murder of a boy some time ago? Except that the judge threw out the allegations when the motive was deemed to be robbery and the hammer a weapon of opportunity.

On topic though, I was quite surprised to see you hadn't posted the story I thought you would. Here it is in NewScientist

Basically, research is showing that the brain responds to computer game violence the same as real-life violence.

I think it's a bit of a no-brainer (excuse the pun

) though. Is there any reason why we should respond to different occurances of violence in different ways? What is the real issue is whether or not the brain accepts games as unreality. Often there are attempts to blur reality and unreality, but tapping combos into your PC is clearly going to distance you somewhat.

@Rec
Nice spoof on my thread

Edited by - The Evil Thing on 6/25/2005 6:58:19 AM

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