AMES, Iowa – Parents who are more anxious and emotional can impact the amount of violent video games their children play, according to new consumer research from Iowa State University. The study is ...

Here’s an interesting fact that came out of the recent debate over gun control: Thanks to the U.S. Congress, the government has been unable to fully research firearm safety for the last 16 years. In ...

While some research links violent video games to aggression, none suggests they cause homicide. Gaming may even improve mental health in some cases.

Aug. 19, 2005 &#151 -- In this week's "Cybershake," we take a look at a new report from a group of American psychologists that further promotes the controversy about the effects of violence in video ...

Video games are mentioned more with white shooters than black shooters. When a school shooting hits the news, are we more likely to blame violent video games if the shooter is white? Politicians, the ...

Yesterday, Senator Jay Rockefeller introduced a bill calling on the National Academy of Sciences to “study” video game violence on children. Speaking of the recent Brown v. EMA Supreme Court decision, ...

Editor's take: Violent video games have long been blamed as the source of many societal problems. However, an increasing number of studies continue to show that gaming poses no significant threat to ...

U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has suggested a causal link between mass shootings and the playing of video games, though countless studies over the years have ...

Dominik Bošnjak is a freelance writer from Croatia. He has been writing about games for as long as he can remember and began doing so professionally circa 2010. If he was forced to pick a favorite ...