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Yes these crimes are true, I watched the one about the young men who played everquest that killed himself, they had a special on tv about these crimes and even some other suides related to the virtual games.

-- Contributed by: Ashley

these things seem extremely possible but are they true? that is the question. we need to be serious about these things, i mean yes there have been fatalities but compared to other things like smoking, drugs and alcohol. yet those aren't being focused on as much as an issue as this

-- Contributed by: nathan

Makes sense to me, and being a gamer myself I have...yes, donated tons of time to a mmorpg and I have witnessed that people live their game instead of their life...instead of just playing in their spare time. I'm doing a presentation in a class about Video Game Violence and I couldn't take myself seriously as I typed 'video game related death' into Google. Now I'm not laughing anymore because I read all this and the sad thing is, I really believe it, I am certain that such things would happen, after witnessing my share of people beating on each other over 'friendly fire' on a multiplayer game and someone was sent to the hospital once over a video game. People sometimes sit there and play because they have nothing to do with themselves, and people like myself can't do a player-versus-player round or two against people like that because that's all they do: sit behind their monitor and figure out new ways to hand your ass to you. It only makes sense that those games would filter into the vestiges of their real life and draw them to do things they ordinarily would not...and mental instability IS NOT always to blame.

-- Contributed by: Lexa

Wow, at most there have only been 25-30 video game related deaths in the last ten years. And that's being generous! Over 100,000 deaths a year are caused by alcohol, 1.4 MILLION deaths a year from tobacco, and MILLIONS of people have died because of religion (which has been the cause of almost every war since before the crusades). So, yeah, lets ban video games.

-- Contributed by: Brian

these things are true you may think that it isn't true but that is because some of these people had mental illness and used the games as a way to not deal with anyone else besides people they meet in the virtual world. When you become obsessed with something do you stop doing it right away?

-- Contributed by: Big Rob

I think this is garbage

-- Contributed by: Chris

GTA is not all that violent, really. I think the most violent thing possible is decapitation of an innocent with a katana. May sound brutal, but I watched Reservoir Dogs (a Quentin Tarantino film) a few weeks back and recall an innocent cop being kidnapped, beaten, having his ear removed, and then drenched in gasoline. He is almost burned alive, and is saved only long enough to suffer more from his injuries and is later shot.

-- Contributed by: Stopaganda

Like fez said, some people are very stupid. But those people probably had some kind of emotional issues that made them turn to video games in the first place. And besides, there are very few incidents related to video gaming; it only seems like it because the media gives it so much attention.

-- Contributed by: Theresa

damn right... insane as well

-- Contributed by: doing this for homework,,,

some people are very stupid.

-- Contributed by: fez
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