Check out this laughable story which I spotted in 'The Metro' newspaper dated Friday August 18th.

Nicholas Carnagey, a psychologist has led a study of students at Iowa State Universityto discover if violent games have an affect on us. He discovered that playing just 20 minutes of a violent computer game is enough to make people immune to real-life brutality. The scientist claims that the main games that affect people are those ones that require users to kill as many people as possible and will desensitise us to real-life violence.

We'd love to know what games they were given to play but the article is vague. Carnagey says that one set of students were given violent games to play and the others were given passive games to play, which included Tetra Madness. They were then shown real-life shootings and prison violence and tested for their emotions response. The ones that had played violent games had 'lower psysiological responses' which apparently means that they had become immune to violence.

We're sorry Mr Carnagey but we think you're full of it. We play violent games all the time and when I saw a youth kick a pidgeon in the local high street I whinced and actually felt quite sick. Stick that one in your book of science nonsense.

If Carnagey's study includes zombies perhaps we'll become totally blind to any violence once we've played the upcoming zombie kill-fest that is Dead Rising.