Well, it happened again. Scientists are bashing video games.

[talisman]

Many of the studies control for almost every factor conceivable... the data highly suggest that the correlation is probably causal in nature (although causation is almost never "proved" just as nothing in science is ever "proved"). If you can think of other factors to account for the results the researchers found, be my guest.

Let me dig up some example studies...

edit: just a couple from my paper... there's more that we didn't cite (obviously), but I'm far too lazy to pull together those citations for you:

Ballard, M., & Wiest, J. (1996). Mortal kombat (tm): the effects of violent videogame play on males’ hostility and cardiovascular responding. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 26(8), 717-730.

Bushman, B.J. and Anderson, C. (2002). Violent video games and hostile expectations: a test of the general aggression model. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28 (12), 1679-1686.