I like the blog Game Politics. I really do. They cover the political angle of videogaming and they do it well. Which makes it all the more disappointing when they essentially point and laugh at the crazy muttering homeless person on the bus. I'd expect that from Kotaku or IGN or Yahoo Games. But Game Politics? Come on, guys.

They linked to an article claiming that the popularity of videogaming is tied to the Pentagon releasing military killing simulators into American society. Ha ha. And that's just in the first paragraph. The article, penned by "researchers" according to Game Politics, goes further into stuff about the school shootings in Germany. But what Game Politics neglects to point out is that this is a radical website full of this kind of junk. If you peruse its pages, you'll find articles about German power plants giving children cancer, the harmful effects of depleted uranium rounds in Serbian soil, pleas to the UN from the son of Saddam Hussein right-hand-man Tariq Aziz for his release, and even a piece by Noam Chomsky on Israel. Is it really worth noting that such a site is going to make fantastical claims about videogames and violence?

I'm not interested in linking to the site, but if you want to read it, you can go through Game Politics' disingenuously dispassionate account of the article.