"At Long Last, Video Game Aggression Linked To Losing, Not Violence"

[kane_magus]

I can confirm that this is true, anecdotally speaking at least. I've never gotten the urge to break things or kill people due to randomly murdering civilians in Grand Theft Auto or whatever, but I most certainly have become enraged when I've played long-ass missions in GTA games and then died just before completing them and then had to start over at the beginning and do it all again. But then, Luigi's Purple Coins in Super Mario Galaxy probably made me boil over more than anything in a GTA game ever did. So, essentially, the findings appear to be that super difficult (or crappily designed) games cause rage more so than excessively violent ones. To which I say, yeah, duh.

I've never thrown a controller in rage myself, but I... I've heard stories. >_>;