Video games not all bad

Video games not all bad, psychologists say : "Students who played violent games were more hostile, less forgiving, and more apt to view violence as normal, than peers who played non-violent games."

It's all in the mix and the balance and I think the balance has been towards heavy duty , violent games and some would argue they do not create violent people, but there have been more and more statistics saying otherwise. Those who argue that violent games don't make violent people need to be heard because maybe we are missing something and their is always the possibility they stop people from being violent. It's the brainless, gratuitous violence we need to deal with in all its forms. Games tend to be a narrowly focussed market and we are only starting to get some better options as other people are allowed to market their gaming ideas. Games need to be broad ranged in their scenarios and less predictable. One thing I did learn from reading a gaming magazine recently was that gamers are seriously into computing and technology. In that sense they provide a group of people who trial new ways of doing things and get the cutting edge technology up and running. They provide a core group of people who are very at home in a technological environment and we need to capitalise on that since technology is not going away. It's the way we are going. I just wish games could provide more variety and maybe then more people would become involved and the market would adapt to a wider audience.Games could be used to improve all sorts of skills and could be developed for all sorts of target audiences. They can be very motivating and motivational as well as having the capacity to develop targeted skills.I guess games will be as limited as the imaginations and machinations which create them.