What a load of rubbish, Gavin.

Even backed by these dodgy American organisations - whose very existence relies on this rubbish science, these "thousands of reports" (and it's not; it's actually only a handful from the same authors over and over again) are scientifically unsound and use such small sample sizes that they are worthless to the world at large.

If videogames had such an effect on children, we'd be seeing a massive jump in violence right now, but that's simply not the case. If videogames had such a impact, the most violent country in the world would be Japan, and again it's simply not the case.

Look at the crime statistics, which are a better real world indication of the effect of video games on the wider population, and you'll find that since the introduction of the Playstation, youth crime rates in the USA, UK and Australia have all declined.

Yes, it's got nothing to do with the Playstation or videogames, but that's precisely the point!