And there you have it - quit worrying about videogames warping your kids and making them violent, focus more on the Michael Bay Bad Boy movies if anything else. The reasoning isn't 100% clear (hey, I know when I'm watching TV it is just as fake as playing a game), but hey, whatever, win one for videogames.

From the article:

Ars Technica, brings us word of a study conducted by the British Board of Film Classification that comes to the conclusion that watching violence on television or in films has a much greater effect on people than playing a violent game, at least in the realm of flipping the hell out and murdering innocent people. According to the BBFC;

There is an appeal in being able to be violent without being vulnerable to the consequences which similar actions in real life would create, gamers are aware that they are playing a game and that it is not real life.

The study goes on to state that due to the inherently poor story-telling in games (compared to film and television), gamers feel less of an emotional connection to their chosen form of entertainment, and are thus less motivated to carry over the fictional prostitute-strangulation to their real lives.

Read the full article over at destructoid.com