You know I'm loving the bit where he comments on the "fault of the game designers" for producing games that are like that, "damaging" and so on, right near the end of this article,
and it made me think (and I'm only 16 so yknow maybe my views are hormonal and wrong) but thats a pretty useless arguement.
For instance, there are plenty of films that he would probably rebuke the producers/directors for making because of their inapropriate content
But the same can be said about alot of things,
Is he just highlighting it in games because video games have become quite a misinterpreted medium?
Like i said, correct me if I'm wrong but perhaps some of his, and others, criticisms of the times when games become adventurous in their subject matter comes from the misconception (or I think some people like that genuinely just forget) that the games market isn't just for kids?
I mean, we don't just make Television shows for kids because we're worried that if we make Adult television it will mess things up, so is it right to feel that way about games?
(Sorry, I've probably waffled on a bit, just thought I'd chip in,
as for all this games - crime linking that theyre trying to make, check a couple of issues back on Ask Dr. Mark (here on the escapist), he did a couple of articles surrounding the whole psychology side of whether games really do influence criminals)