Games researchers say that games are powerful teaching tools that can teach positive messages… but if games are powerful teaching tools, doesn’t that mean that violent video games can teach violence?
discussions of violent video games treat violence and death as an unfortunate side effect of how games are made, but tackling this idea head on “would be to attempt to overcome our own aversions to reminders of our mortality and inspect how this media consoles us… against the specter of our inevitable demise.”
has some interesting stuff on violent video games, though I really only skimmed it.
