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Video games can be habit-forming because they give immediate rewards for learning. Child and adolescent brains are typically susceptible to negative habit-forming as their brains are under development until the middle 20s.

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"We always worry about the decadence of our children, the dilapidation of our future society, the immoral nature of people who engage in activities we don't quite understand."

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Overall, violent crime is down in the U.S.; in fact, as violent video games have become more popular, violent crime has fallen.

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Analysts estimate 18 to 20 million copies of Rockstar's GTA V will be sold worldwide by the end of March, 2014.

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The shooting has already sparked calls for censorship of video games, with members of the media claiming both that there must be a causal connection and that not enough research has been done on the violent side-effects of video games.

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"Our brains are geared up to recognise patterns," says Erinma Ochu, a neuroscientist and Wellcome Trust Engagement Fellow at the University of Manchester, explaining why scientists are turning to gamers for help, "And we do it better than computers."

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Millions of young adults play violent video games every day.

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In 2012, people playing an astronomy game called Planet Hunters found a curious planet with four stars in its system, and to date, they've discovered 40 planets that could potentially support life, all of which had been previously missed by professional astronomers.

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In 2011, people playing Foldit, an online puzzle game about protein folding, resolved the structure of an enzyme that causes an AIDS-like disease in monkeys. Researchers had been working on the problem for 13 years; the gamers solved it in three weeks.

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Some parents worry about their adolescent children playing violent video games.

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