An argument that would probably never find an answer is the affect of violent gaming on our modern day teenagers. Whilst some believe that video games affect a teenager’s brain adversely, the others discard it as rubbish. Whatever may be your verdict, this news proves that fanaticism for and with gaming is a serious disease that leaves the fanatic devoid of practical reasoning. An 18 year old teenager robbed and murdered a 54 year old taxi driver in Malaysia merely to emulate a scene from the game in an attempt to judge whether robbing a taxi driver in real life was as easy as in the game. New Era Interactive Media, the distributor of GTA IV in Malaysia has taken the decision of pulling down the game from all retailer shelves after this incident. This incident isn’t the first of its kind where the violence in gaming has taken its toll on a youngsters thought and all that it does is that it leaves a new question to be answered for the rating authorities- adjudging whether a violent game is capable of taming a human brain! This altogether would open a new chapter of research and it is something which cannot be instantly answered leaving this confusion presently in a state of jeopardy.
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[Source: Gamesindustry]
