The Correlation Between Gun Availability and Murder

Today we've got a comic from VirtualShackles.com, detailing the direct correlation between gun availability and murders and the lack of correlation between gun related murders and video games. You can read more comics by them on their site.

Superhero Simulations Make People More Altruistic

A new study published on Wednesday has found that people who experience superhero simulations, such as through the virtual reality video games used in the study, will act significantly more altruistic that people who have not experience such simulations. The full study can be read at PLOSOne.org, and a summary can be read at AdelaideNow.com.

Prince Harry About Whether War Is Like A Video Game

Kotaku.com has a round-up of articles about Prince Harry's recent comments comparing the war video games among other things, which can be read here.

25 Years of Violent Video Game Research

Kotaku.com has created a summary for every Violent Video Game Study, since the first one in 1984, as well as an article on the history of these studies and what the current consensus is today.

Violent Media not the cause of Violent People

Chris Ferguson, a professor of psychology and criminal justice at Texas A&M University, has written a piece for Time Magazine's website about politicians' use of violent media like video games as the cause of violent people and the continued lack of evidence to support this theory despite numerous studies.