New research claims that those who play violent video games eventually become indifferent to the pain and suffering of others. Useful as it is, we find this quite unsurprising. For years we’ve known that in fact those who play violent video games actually become cold hearted, deranged and blood thirsty killers.

Games are designed to train people how to kill, fact. But researchers at Durham University are going against the grain and are (foolishly) trying to use games to save people. The team have modified popular civil disobedience sim Half Life 2, turning it into Fire Safety Training simulator.

A study published within the Journal of Youth and Adolescence conducted by the much-credited Utah Brigham Young University draws a conclusion that all videogames are bad for you. That’s right, ALL videogames, even something as innocuous as Tetris or Bejewelled can have nothing but a negative effect on your life.

New ‘research’ conducted by a graduate at the University of Rochester (35th top university in the US… only 35th) suggests that apparently gamers don’t play videogames solely for their violent content but are supposedly more inclined to play videogames for the challenge they offer, supposedly.