Violent video games linked to child aggression.

About 90 percent of U.S. kids ages 8 to 16 play video games, and they spend 13 hours a week doing so ( more if you're a boy). Now a new study suggest virtual violence in these games may make kids more aggressive in real life.

Kids in both the U.S. and Japan who reported playing lots of violent video games had more aggressive behavior months later than their peers who did not, according to the study, which appears in the November issue of the journal Pediatrics. The researchers specifically tried to get to the root of the chicken-or-egg problem -- do children become more aggressive after playing video games or are aggressive kids more attracted to violent videos? Read on...

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Movie, Dead Run, Plot Linked To Serial Killer

The similarities are haunting to Rael. Watch this video clip to learn more about a real life Dexter: Gorgia Killer Made a Murder Movie

When attorney-turned-movie producer Samuel Rael decided he wanted to make a film about a serial killer in 1995, it was former legal client Gary Michael Hilton who he says came up with the plot. Rael's adviser was the same Gary Hilton who confessed in January to killing 24-year-old Meredith Emerson in the North Georgia mountains and is the prime suspect in the killings of a Florida woman and a North Carolina couple.

It was Hilton, according to Rael, who found one of the film's prime shooting locations: a cabin in the mountains of North Georgia near the town of Cleveland. In the movie, the killer held women captive in the cabin. Emerson's body was discovered in the woods 13 years later, 30 miles southwest of that location. She had been held captive for three days before Hilton killed her.

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Dexter, please teach our sociopaths how to kill. New Dexter video game to be released.

Dexter follows Dexter Morgan, a forensic blood-spatter expert for the Miami Dade Police Department whose perfectly respectable persona hides a dark compulsion: HE IS A SERIAL KILLER MADE RESPECTABLE . He hunts down people who have escaped justice. (Questions: Who is he to decide who should be killed? Who will use his example to justify who they chose to kill in real life?)

Dexter, rated in the top four shows on television, is one of the most popular shows on SHOWTIME with a particular strong fan base among gamers. Marc Ecko of Entertainment Today announced it has entered into a production agreement with Showtime Networks to design a video game based on the Emmy and Golden Globe winning hit television series "Dexter".

When I learned of their intent to make a video game out of Dexter, I emailed Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, author of Stop Teaching Our Children To Kill, to see what he would have to say:

"The Dexter video game is truly sick.  Not only have we turned a serial killer into a hero, but now the kids get to play Dexter in the video game.  They are not just the passive viewer of Dexter's murders, they now actively inflict the crimes and are rewarded for it."   

To learn more from Lt. Col. Grossman check out the Yello Dyno Memo:

The Recipe for Making Kids Into Killers Part IV: Violent Behavior Is The Solution To Problems: The Video Game Tells Me So.

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Manhunt 2 Video Game: Lessons In How To Become A Sociopath

Have you been following The Yelly Dyno Memo Series, The Recipe for Making Kids Into Killers?, Monthly_memo_10_07.html

You will want to keep the kids in your life away from the "game" Manhunt. I also wonder about any adult who would want to play ManHunt? Not sure I'd want to count them as one of my friends.

At a press conference in San Francisco, Calif., James Steyer, CEO of the children's advocacy group Common Sense Media, called Manhunt 2, "one of the most horrifically violent games that we've ever seen. It features a variety of different executions and is really a very, very violent almost unwatchable game."

Manhunt 2 had previously been rated "Adults Only," for players 18 and older, which would marginalize the game since many major retailers refused to sell games with that rating. Rockstar made some tweaks to the game -- removing a graphic scene of castration, for instance, and received a new rating of M -- for players 17 and up -- paving the way to the big-box stores like Wal-Mart and Circuit City.

“The impact of the revisions on the bleakness and callousness of tone, or the essential nature of the gameplay, is clearly insufficient,” the BBFC wrote. “There has been a reduction in the visual detail in some of the 'execution kills,' but in others they retain their original visceral and casually sadistic nature.”

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