For those who might not understood what happened; A 13 year old kid murdered his parents and the media blamed the video game found on the boy's bedroom; "Assassinn's Creed" (this happend a few days ago here, in Brazil)
And for those who are not familiar with the game, the symbol at Julia's jacket is the symbol of the Assassin's at the game
So, I know that this isn't new (it goes far way back since almost the birth of video games), but I can't avoid to express my sadness towards the thinking that "video games are the responsable for violent kids".
It's very easy to blame someone else intead of, for example, ausent parents.
Here at home (I'm still living with my parents) I have a younger 11 yeal old sister who, also enjoy to play video game. Gladly my parets take very serious the age that the game was rated (it's there for a reason) and, even she's having a hard time at school (she's bullied), she knows that it's possible to count with games like Minecraft to make her day better.
Also, I'm a huge fan of series like Assassin's Creed and mainly Metal Gear (both violent games), but I'm love with them for the story and mainly the game mecanincs whre you don't have to kill everyone you meet; Also, in MGS you get a better rating if you avoid killing your enemies.
Now I'm going to stop talking, otherwise I'll spend the whole night in fron of the screen, writting about this subject.
I was trying to find a video abot a speech of a student from Harvard (if I'm not wrong) where the speacher explained the beneficts of gaming, but I couln't find.
So, here's an old video from 2k12 about the subject:
Assassin's Creed © Ubisoft
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