Playing violent video games doesn't necessarily make you a bad person, study suggests

Obsessively playing violent video games such as Call of Duty for hours every day for several years does not necessarily reduce the amount of empathy people feel towards others in the long term, according to a new study. Researchers in Germany showed "emotionally provocative images" to 15 avid gamers while their brains were being monitored by an MRI machine. They found there was no difference between the response patterns of the gamers' minds compared to a control group. To avoid short-term effects, the gamers had not played games for at least three hours before the test. This may have been a challenge for some of them as, on average, they had played video games for four hours a day every day for four years.