Can the violence in video games result in good or bad karma?

But I think this is an interesting question, because it really depends on how one views video games, playing styles, and the idea of karma itself. To start with, I do not believe that killing a video game character, whether a PC or an NPC, is at all equivalent to killing a human being in real life. read more

When video games aren't about violence, their capacity to teach can be a good thing. For patients suffering from arachnophobia, fear of flying, or post-traumatic stress disorder, therapists are beginning to use virtual realities as a desensitization tool. read more

A few studies tried to draw distinctions between good and bad games. In a 2010 experiment, Tobias Greitemeyer, then at the University of Sussex in England, and Silvia Osswald of Ludwig Maximilian University in Germany asked subjects to play one of three video games—either a “prosocial” game, an “aggressive” game or the “neutral” game Tetris. read more