No it doesn't. If anything it prevents or reduces it.

The media conveniently just points at that copy of COD or GTA in the room of the next psycho school shooter but ignore the movie tickets or maybe even pirate copies for movies like John wick or any other mindlessly violent movie you can think of.

Movies stand to be always more likely to breed violence than games as with games there is always that visual disconnect with them never quite looking real.

All i can say is that i have killed millions of digital beings at this point and i have never hurt or even considered hurting a real person.

I've been playing violent video games since I was 5, and watching violent cartoons like Popeye, and Coyote Vs Roadrunner etc. Do I go out to start fights, shoot, and blow up people with dynamites? Nope. It never crossed my mind. My parents raised me well. I remember watching Rambo when I was 6... lol

Whenever I play as a dick in video game's like Fallout 3 I feel bad for the things I do. If anything playing these games has sensitized me to violence as I feel good for doing the good things and bad for doing the bad things.

I believe it come's down to the person playing the game and not the game itself.

They don't. End of discussion.

It depends on the researcher to be honest, if a researcher is out to prove a point they normally work the numbers to suit their point. So what you have to do is find research that suits your point of view. I found bing is better for finding this kind of information

well i wanna punch my brother in his stupid face every time we play Mariokart DD... but i dont do it because he is lot bigger than me...

ohhh and i destroyed one of those little red ikea desks after playing sonic 06 for the first time

If anything games are an outlet for stress. Long day at work balanced with doing a few greater rifts and killing stuff lets me relax. I would say there is a long list of things responsible for violence way before video games, in particular the home environment. People just point to games because we're at a mid point in culture where they are popular, but far more so with under 40 crowd, making them scary to over 40 crowd. In 20 years When we're the old likely be blaming something new that comes along and scares us.

Maybe in some people who aren't mature or mentally stable enough, to tell the difference between reality and fantasy, it could cause violence. I just don't see it for the mass majority though.

videogames dont cause violence but a lot of violent people play videogames