Isn’t It Time to Turn Down the Video-Game Violence?

Not long ago I sat and watched a couple of boys as they played video games. While the younger boy raced cars, the older boy played a military commando game.  The object of the race was obvious: finish first. The object of the commando game was obvious, too: kill all...

Violent Young Men

I saw the Halo youth-ministry story that everyone’s commenting on when I picked up a copy of the New York Times at the airport on Sunday. For those lucky enough not to have read the story, it seems that staging nights of playing Halo 3 (a rather violent video...

Gamers Detract From TV Audience

The Digital Gaming in America annual survey found that not only has video gaming finally outpaced PC gaming, but that gaming in general continues to threaten television’s dominance as the media of choice. Over one-quarter (26 percent) of the survey’s...