Kuwait, at least, is heaving with video games of all descriptions and knock-off copies are only a few dinar each - unless something's really changed in five years since I was last there. And Dubai had a video games expo this year. I know these are two moderate middle-eastern countries but they do get a lot of people visiting from the rest of Arabia. Both Saudi and Yemen - two less moderate countries also have huge gaming markets - albeit mostly knock-off again!

Africa, well you're probably right there!

Just found this on the Telegraph website:

So maybe shot ourselves in the foot there!

do video games cause violence?
 

No, but violence has caused some great computer games.:D

what is so bad about desensitizing?
I hate those little kids who squirm and scream when they see a picture of a girl in a bikini.
I also hate those girls who through up at the sight of blood, even a small cut

I wonder what video games the Nazis had played that lead into committing one or two atrocities....
I am glad that their allied counterparts played Wolfenstein 3D - though it was all in black&white back then...


Actually this happened to many people of the Pac-Man-generation: they became ravers....:-?

It is the irony of the entire thing that makes that particular ironic joke funny. But still, blaming that on video games is ridiculous.

they have radical religion, don't need video games.

That is Marcus Brigstocke's point - he is a very funny man. :haha:

We have radical religion too - Catholics blowing up/shooting Protestants and vice-versa - everyone seems to forget that... :yep:

And the religious and righteous anti-animal testing, anti-abortion, anti-muslim brigade. :nope:

But this is a topic covered before and not for continuing here and now.

the dumb humourless German doesn' t get the irony, arghh :x

:DL:DL:DL

We'll help you adjust :D Nobody called you dumb (not me, anyway). :doh:

naah, it was just self awareness...;)

Don't you think it is sad for todays youth that anything gets blamed on video games?
We had at least heavy metal, zombie movies, comic books and video games to chose which of these turns us into violent maniacs!

If firearms, with which you can actually kill people, don't kill people, I don't see any way that a video game could.

Ya know thinking about it Autocad or rather Cute PDF has driven me to voilent behaviour. Just yesterday I was so damn frustrated with its inconsistancy I slammed a keyboard and broke it :haha:

But seriously kids like this one need to be watched...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxfOhQ0cc1s

You know I was thinking the same thing even when I wrote my first response. However as far as certain video games or any other subject matter goes I should draw the line. That for me is the issue not whether an inanimate object such as a gun or firearm could cause something to happen, they cannot. But there is certain subject matter that should be guarded against.