Do video games cause violence?

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Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

I'm just glad their are places where there are no video games (Violent or otherwise)... like Africa and the Middle East...


... such nice, peaceful places...

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:

One former Guantanamo Bay inmate who went through the programme, which features "positive thinking" classes, art therapy and video games, is now deputy leader of Al-Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula, the cell in Yemen behind the attempted Christmas Day bombing on an airliner as it approached Detroit.

So maybe shot ourselves in the foot there!