Controversial-no, daft-yes.
I fear that Mr. Crowe himself has the unhealthy pallor of the computer obsessed and is defending it.
The computer can be a great thing but its very anonymity breeds idiocy-as can be seen by the many trolls who play idiotic games because of the faceless nature of the medium.

How do you know which sex the aliens are that you're zapping? None of them have disabilities either, they're usually brown bread after being zapped.

#1 & #2 Isn't posting these comments an online game?

#3. Yes.

Go online, meet lots of different people, then shoot them dead.

Great example to be setting the ankle-biters.

Computer games have their place, good for co-ordination etc. I would imagine but you have to consider the appropriateness of the content of the game before letting them play.

#3 Yane. Yes.

Paula (#5), not all online games are shooters. there's at least one MMORPG that allows players to craft and market goods. kudos to you for advocating parental awareness and control over what games are played based on content.

"Multi-player online games give children a freedom to explore but without their parents worrying about where they are in an age when, in real life, they are not allowed out by themselves because of safety fears, said Nic Crowe and Dr Simon Bradford of Brunel's School of Sport and Education"? That's not English. That's not even nearly English. Why is this person employed? Lets say I had filled a bag with words, and when filling said bag, my vocabulary had been rather limited, and I'd forgotten to include any punctuation. Imagine I had accidentally then dropped this 'bag of words', and the contents spilled out in an unlucky fashion, it would still make more sense than this aimless rambling.