WSJ praises video games

[Xanthippe]

http://www.opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=110008463

Nice to see articles like this one, instead of the typical hysterics.

[WindupAtheist]

The most comprehensive study yet on the social effects of such kill-or-be-killed games, conducted by researchers at the University of Illinois and the University of Michigan, found that prolonged playing of Asheron's Call 2--a gory online multiplayer fantasy--didn't make study participants more belligerent.

What the fuck?

[Xanthippe]

I assumed the writer was using someone else's words to describe AC2.  He doesn't seem to have any familiarity with mmogs.

[Margalis]

The game may not be gory but playing it is.

[shiznitz]

It was only gory because players gouged out their own eyes and chopped off their own hands out of raw boredom.