Summary: Violent Video Games: the Effect on Youth and Public Policy Implications

This article brings up a discussion years in the making. With one real question the article tries to address, Do violent video games correlate to violent behavior?
Video games have been around for decades now and with the video games becoming more and more advanced so does the violence. The article starts with how there may or may not be a direct link to violence and video games. Then it moves to the history of video games, that started with Pong and are now on to high resolution gaming. For example, high resolution games are games such as Call of Duty and Grand Theft Auto V.
The author discusses if video games are linked to violent acts of aggression in children. The article goes into depth about video games and the updates on how society attempted to handle them in the past (video game rating system). and how in once the video game ration system was placed it only allowed for makers to become more violent because of suggested ages on games. The articles goes deeper in depth about research and the possible connection between aggression and violent video games. This article then goes on about the possible links and media and violent acts. the article also attempts to end with how there is no direct link to video games and violent acts.