Violent video games make people more relaxed

[yiozik]

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Holy irony, Batman! People who play violent games online actually feel relaxed after they have played a round of bloody fun.

This according to new research discovered by Develop Magazine, which found that a sampling of 292 World of Warcraft players, ages 12-83 years, were more likely to feel calm or tired after playing a round of the popular online game.

"There were actually higher levels of relaxation before and after playing the game as opposed to experiencing anger but this did very much depend on personality type," said Jane Barnett, who headed the Middlesex study. Translation: If you're an aggressive jackass before you play a video game, you'll still be one after; and video games don't magically turn peaceful people into violent offenders.

Barnett added the research will help develop an emotion and gaming questionnaire to help distinguish the type of gamer who is likely to transfer their online aggression into everyday life.

We at GamePro believe the questionnaire will also help weed out blatant media-hungry opportunists who have used the relatively young video game genre as a platform for blatant self-promotion.

[Caesar]

LoL I never thought that way!

So that's why everyone plays CS - Counter Strike 1.6 and CS Source :)

[Prokomenos]

I could of told that to you lol. I love playing my first person shooter games hahaha...