I apologize in advance for the third blog post on the subject of video games in a row, but I saw this on digg this morning and was very impressed. A study was launched to go out into the real world and find out how violent video games actually effect children and teenagers. Authors Lawrence Kutner and Cheryl Olsen lead the study and published their findings in the book Grand Theft Childhood.

G4TV’s Adam Sessler interviews the two authors on his show X-Play, a show about video game news and reviews. That video can be found here.

In the interview, Kutner and Olsen explain their findings were worlds apart from popularly cited research programs that claim violent video games make a violent person. They even included non-gamers and children who play non-violent video games into the study. Their findings are very interesting.

In the end I think the only answer left to the big debate is there are good people and there are psychopathically deranged, homocidally preoccupied, should-be-locked-up bad people.

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