My next virtual reality machine was the Xbox 360. I was wrapping up high school and closing in on the mark of my "adult" life as an American citizen, the big '18'. I could now legally purchase cigarettes, porn, and go over seas to donate my body to the insatiable thirst for blood that our nation has so eloquently acquired. With this change in perspective and perceived responsibility for life, the games that I began to play also helped broaden my worldview.  One of the first games I played was Modern Warfare. In this game you are invading the middle east to eradicate nuclear threats to the Americas. In the most recent publication of this game MW3, terrorists are attacking the Americas and you are a solider defending our well earned and inherent right to freedom.  This game taught me many things, one of which being that its okay to kill invaders of your country if it is to defend your peoples rights and admirations for the future.  We invade other countries to protect our freedom, then are appalled when they defend themselves and their values.  Wouldn't it be a nice change of pace to see modern warfare, in the form of a video game, from the view of any of the non-world powers or perhaps even the oppressed? Well I guess that wouldn't sell too well. Maybe it was the culture and the video games was a catalyst... Either way this was the beginning of the end to my childhood, and all naive aspirations for a decent universe where truth and beauty reigned free and in its place the birth of my cynical and morbid American ways. c'est la vie


http://childdevelopmentinfo.com/tag/videogames.shtml

couldn't find much of a big picture conversation or at least an entire website devoted to the topic.