[Skybird]

Most of you are right and wrong at the same time, I think.

Blame not ONLY brutal games, but blame a culture that hails violance in general. And of course games - like almost everything else - can be abused. If your kid plays violant video-games 12 hours a day, expect to see it's behaviors and it's "social competence" changing and it'S intellectual ability decling. So, not so much the game itself is a problem, but a general climate of culture that

a.) produces ultra-violant games
b.) hails, shows, illustrates explicit violance in all media output,
c.) makes kids and juveniles in their most vulnerable years of their life spending excessive timeshares of the day with getting immersed in violant and/or militant games and brutal pseudo-realities

It's like with food you eat: don't expect that if you put lots of violant signals into your cognitive perception and into your brain, that your brain will not produce a non-correlating, non-violant output.

The more your cognitive system is still developing, is vulnerable, is suggestible and maybe is put under stress of puberty or intense stress caused by other factors in your life, the greater the chance that you will fall victim to a violant game.

The more strengthend and finalised your character's developement is, the more balanced you are and the more you have found your place in life and found yourself being anchored in a stress-free living situation, the less vulnerable you are to extreme sensual exposure like violance in games, and other medias.