YouTube parent company Google announced this week that they would be imposing new restrictions on videos posted to the platform. From November 17, any new videos promoting online gambling, social ...

Advocates against the sexualisation of girls in media detail the abuse and threats of violence they received after ...

United States Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has announced that the National Institutes of Health are looking into a range of issues as it relates to what may contribute to gun violence in the ...

One periodic theme in this blog has been the influence of video games on behavior. To summarize what I have discussed in the past, video games can have both positive and negative influences. On the ...

Video game violence can be a fickle thing, with some of the most controversial video games of all time relatively tame by today's standards. But for all the delicate sensibilities of the 1990s, there ...

Back in April, the Wire covered the Supreme Court's decision to hear a case involving violent video games. California passed a law banning the sale of such games to minors, but lower federal courts ...

Dominik Bošnjak is a freelance writer from Croatia. He has been writing about games for as long as he can remember and began doing so professionally in 2010 because an opportunity presented itself ...

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In Part 1 of this post, I talked about research on how playing violent video games is related to aggressive thoughts, feelings, and behavior. Overall, the evidence points to small effects of violent ...