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On 9 April 2011 in Alphen Aan Den Rijn, The Netherlands, 24-year-old [[Tristan van der Vlis]] opened fire in a shopping mall, releasing more than a hundred bullets with a semi-automatic rifle and a handgun, killing 6 people and wounding 17 others, after which he also killed himself.<ref>[http://www.nu.nl/alphen-ad-rijn/2488241/man-24-richt-bloedbad-in-alphen-ad-rijn.html "Man (24) richt bloedbad aan in Alphen a/d Rijn."] 9 April 2011. Retrieved 20 April 2011.</ref> A fair amount of attention was given to Van Der Vlis' playing of ''[[Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2]]'' and to the alleged similarities between the events in Alphen a/d Rijn and the controversial [[Controversies surrounding Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2|"No Russian" mission]] in the game, where the player can choose to (or choose not to) partake in the killing of a large group of innocent people inside an airport terminal.<ref>[http://www.ad.nl/ad/nl/3722/Schietpartij-Alphen-a-d-Rijn/article/detail/578164/2011/04/12/Bloedbad-Tristan-lijkt-griezelig-veel-op-computerspel.dhtml "AD legt link tussen schietpartij Alphen en Call of Duty."] 12 April 2011. Retrieved 20 April 2011.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/9516097/___Hij_had_het_altijd_over_dat_spel___.html?p=2,1|title=Hij had het altijd over dat spel|work=telegraaf.nl|accessdate=17 February 2015}}</ref> On 22 July 2011, [[Anders Behring Breivik]] perpetrated the [[2011 Norway attacks]], detonating a car bomb in the executive government quarter, and then travelled to a summer camp for teenagers, where he proceeded to stalk and kill a large number of people. Seventy-seven people were killed in the attacks, a majority of them being teenagers who were at the summer camp. Hundreds were injured by the car bomb explosion.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.biography.com/people/anders-behring-breivik-20617893 | title = Anders Behring Breivik biography | accessdate = 2013-03-11 | work = Biography.com | quote = On July 22, 2011, a bomb exploded in a car outside the office of Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg in Regjeringskvartalet in central Oslo. The powerful blast killed eight people and injured hundreds... Breivik went on a deadly shooting spree at the camp, killing 69 people, mostly teens.}}</ref> Breivik himself admitted in court that he had deliberately used the 2009 video game ''[[Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2]]'' to train for the attacks, specifically by practicing his aim using a "holographic aiming device".<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/apr/19/anders-breivik-call-of-duty | title = Anders Breivik 'trained' for shooting attacks by playing Call of Duty | accessdate = 2013-03-11 | last = Pidd | first = Helen | date = 2012-04-19 | work = Guardian.co.uk | quote = The 33-year-old said he practiced his shot using a "holographic aiming device" on the war simulation game, which he said is used by armies around the world for training. "You develop target acquisition," he said. He used a similar device during the shooting attacks that left 69 dead at a political youth camp on the island of Utøya on 22 July.}}</ref> He stated in his manifesto that he had been planning the attacks since 2002.
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In February of 2018, after 15-year-old Ben Walmsley of Greater Manchester, England, committed suicide, his father Darren later stated that he believed the [[visual novel]] ''[[Doki Doki Literature Club!]]'' may have contributed to "dragging" his son into a dark place, due to a subplot of the game involving two characters suffering from [[depression]] who independently commit suicide. Walmsley also claimed that Ben had been frequently awoken at night due to text messages he attributed to coming from the game's characters, despite no such function existing in the game. In June of 2018, the controversy was discussed by [[Victoria Derbyshire]] on [[BBC News]], and compared to how the [[Doom (franchise)|''Doom'' franchise]] was blamed for [[Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold]]'s massacre at [[Columbine High School massacre|Columbine]]. The game being blamed for Ben's death, as well as the BBC interview discussing the controversy, was met with criticism on social media, with some were sick of video games being blamed for instigating tragic events, while others thought the game's discussion on the BBC was not necessary. Darren Walmsley was also criticized for claiming the video game characters had literally been sending his son text messages due to it not being a feature in the game.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/technology-44644127/doki-doki-warnings-over-suicide-themed-video-game|title=BBC News|last=|first=|date=|website=|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref>
== Positive effects of video games ==
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