Study turns belief commonly held by video game industry, gamers, on its head By Laura Sanders Blood, guts and gore aren’t what thrill avid gamers when they slaughter zombies in The House of the Dead III video game, a new study suggests. Instead, feelings of control and competence are what the players crave. The new [...]
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ScienceNews: “Gamers crave control and competence, not carnage”
Posted: May 22, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: video games, violence
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Weaponized Xbox Controllers, The Myth of Redemptive Violence and the Militarization of Play
Posted: September 5, 2008 in UncategorizedTags: Army, Close Combat, Fleet Week, Lockheed Martin, Nintendo, Pentagon, Raytheon, video games, Wii, World of Warcraft, Xbox
One of the deepest challenges that comes with the Christian faith is the constant struggle to reject false dilemmas, the most pervasive of which is the false dilemma of “fight or flight.” We learn to see conflicts in terms of this false choice from an early age, and we learn that “fight” is the “honorable” [...]
Devils Wear Halos, Too
Posted: August 27, 2008 in UncategorizedTags: Call of Duty, gaming, Halo, military training, video games, violence, Wii
My wife just sent me a link that I will use as my next big post topic, but for now, enjoy: Some might say that all those teenagers “wasting time” on Halo 3 and Call of Duty 4 are actually the warfighters of tomorrow, training themselves at zero cost to the U.S. taxpayer. In fact, [...]
