Experts: Videogames Will Start Wars!
- Scribbled on January 18th, 2008 by Jonah Falcon
- Filed in Interviews, Microsoft Xbox 360, PC, Shooter, Sony PlayStation 3, WTF
CNNMoney, in an article about Frontlines: Fuel of War, features some experts who claim that a video game like this will lead to more war.
But [Craig Anderson, a professor of psychology at Iowa State University], the psychologist, is concerned about the message that violent games like Fuel of War may send to players.
“It may well change attitudes towards the use of these tactics as a political tool,” he said. Players may think “of course we have to use military tactics to go take oil.”
Um, sure. Does Anderson remember Kuwait? Did video games inspire that invasion for oil?
Little hint: no one needs video games as a motivating factor to go to war - trust us.
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