We missed it.
According to the Review of General Psychology, the Texas A&M researchers examined 118 teens and found violent video games are actually quite safe for most youths to play. The only youths who shouldn’t play violent video games, researchers found, are those who tend to be “highly neurotic, less agreeable, and less conscientious.” Those who didn’t posses those personality traits were not adversely affected by video games.
“Recent research has shown that as video games have become more popular, children in the United States and Europe are having fewer behavior problems, are less violent and score better on standardized tests,” Christopher J. Ferguson, guest editor of the journal, said in a statement. “Violent video games have not created the generation of problem youth so often feared.”
This means we can finally play Adult Swim’s Robot Unicorn Attack without fear of feeding the dark voices in our head any new ideas of super-charging, head-butting horn violence.
Sweet, sweet fantasy automaton violence.
Now if someone can only sort out Roger Ebert.
