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Phew!: Waggle doesn't produce murderers
Joystiq [Nintendo] — Filed under: News There is a popular viewpoint pushed by those who campaign against the likes of Manhunt 2, and it runs a little like this: motion-controlled on-screen violence is more likely to corrupt players than that which is played through pressing buttons. Senators have used this argument in the past, as have journalists, but they're both wrong. Gloriously, wonderfully wrong. Who says so? Science says so, that's ...

New study shows that Wii motions won't make you violent
Destructoid — Well, that is until you hit someone on accident. That's real violence right there. A study by  by Dr. Patrick Markey at Villanova University shows that those Wii Remote motions assigned to violent attacks, such as the ones in Manhunt 2, won't make you any more violent than traditional games. Markey pulled together 118 participants to play both Manhunt 2 and Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2008 on the Wii. He gauged their level of psychoticism before and after playing these games, permitting them to use both standard and waggle-style controls.  The study says that waggle attacks did not bring about the expected aggression or hostility, and that swinging a Wii Remote and pushing buttons brought about the same ...