The headline up there isn't the sort of thing I'd normally believe. It's written like linkbait, to get irate gamers to click on it. But that's not the case here. Not that I'm above that sort of thing, mind you. It's just that I can think of no other way to parse the following comment from Judge James Burge when he handed down a life sentence to Daniel Petric for murder.

I feel confident that if there were no such thing as violent video games, I wouldn't know Daniel Petric.

Now, to be fair, Petric was obviously disturbed. The Ohio teenager shot both of his parents, presumably over a dispute about how much he was playing Halo 3. But the judge clearly implies the act would not have taken place were it not for videogames. He doesn't seem to believe that there was something wrong with Petric that could have been flipped by comic books, horror movies, prime time television, heavy metal lyrics, or the sugar content in Hostess Twinkies. It was something unique to violent video games.