{"id":47711,"date":"2012-11-22T10:38:09","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T08:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=47711"},"modified":"2012-11-22T10:39:59","modified_gmt":"2012-11-22T08:39:59","slug":"video-game-violence-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/47711-video-game-violence-in-action","title":{"rendered":"Video game violence in action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Video games are often blamed for bad things, and the fact is, there\u2019s now a PSA that <em>proves<\/em> that playing video games does lead to aggression and violence.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, not really \u2013 the video is a short skit, showing off some friends trying to initiate an intervention to stop a fellow friend from playing video games \u2013 the only problem is, their intervention is a little frightening.<\/p>\n<p>The video was made by Julian Smith, who has some other videos showcasing his creative talent.<\/p>\n<p>On a side note, a recent study\u00a0attempted\u00a0to prove that <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/44488-violent-gamers-are-more-pain-tolerant-study.html\" target=\"_blank\">gamers\u00a0who frequently play violent games are more likely to embrace pain<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the video below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_EGlrPl0N_o\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/47680-stripper-upset-at-hitman-absolution.html\">Stripper upset at Hitman: Absolution<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/46270-gta-creators-admit-generating-controversy-was-part-of-the-plan.html\">GTA creators admit generating controversy was part of the plan<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/45111-co-op-games-promote-co-operative-behaviour-finds-study.html\">Co-op games promote co-operative behaviour<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/44599-gamers-are-bad-drivers-study.html\">Gamers are bad drivers: study<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/44488-violent-gamers-are-more-pain-tolerant-study.html\">Violent gamers are more pain tolerant: study<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video game violence through the eyes of some dark humour<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":47714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,1548,1157,6722,1841],"class_list":["post-47711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-video-game-violence","tag-video-games","tag-violence","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47720,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47711\/revisions\/47720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}