Violence in Video Games

My topic I will be writing my essay on will be Violence in video games. There are a lot of controversies surrounding this topic in recent times and I find it very interesting to do some more research about this topic and what other people think. This has been everywhere in the news, magazines and even in the newspapers so this is no news to anyone. I will be using various researches sources such as magazines, article and internet sources to do my research. The reason why I chose to do my essay on this topic was, as a gamer I like violence in video games and I find it a little boring to play games with little violence it them. So choosing this topic will help me express myself freely in a way I would like and argue for and against violence in Video games. This research at the end will give me a broad idea about the effects violence can have in a video games and children.

Are Violent Video Games Adequately Preparing Children For The Apocalypse?

Are Violent Video Games Adequately Preparing Children For The Apocalypse?

I have lifted this from the Gamer Think blog by Michael Highland, it is well worth a look.

"...these aren't the advanced skills that they are going to need, they are going to need more practical skills like how to build shelters from abandoned cars or how to collect drinking water by collecting the morning dew in human skulls"

Levinson T. In The Know, Onion News Network [available at: http://www.theonion.com/content/video/are_violent_video_games]