Do video games make children violent? Nobody knows – and this is why

The sorry state of research into one of the world’s biggest entertainment industries is leaving us in the darkIn 1976, the driving simulation Death Race was removed from an Illinois amusement park. There had, according to a news story at the time, been complaints that it encouraged players to run over pedestrians to score points. Through a series of subsequent newspaper reports, the US National Safety Council labelled the game “gross” and motoring groups demanded its removal fr