Systematic Literature Review of the Impact of Violent Acts in Video Game on a Person’s Behavior

This systematic literature review examines the impact of violent acts in video games on an individual’s behavior. With the rising popularity and relevancy of eSport and digital gaming, video games have come as a form of entertainment and social connection. This sort of entertainment may influence a person's behavior, should it be consumed daily or excessively. Depending on the content itself, violences in video games may bring negative impact on a person’s behavior, such as an increase of aggression level on a person. Excessive exposure of violent content from a video game is a serious problem considering the popularity of digital gaming nowadays. It may impact broader audiences such as young people which may ruin later generations. This paper aims to show various results from various journals, about the impact of violent content in video games on a person’s behavior using PRISMA methodology for the searching and selection process. The results of this paper show that higher levels of anger in individuals correlate with increased aggression. However, aggression levels between males and females differs. Males tend to have more increase in aggression than females. Furthermore, the duration of playing violent video games is another contributing factor to increased aggression. The conclusion shows significancy in which anger, gender differences, and duration of playing plays important roles of affecting a person’s behavior. This may further help to categorize which types of video games genre have more impacts on a person’s behavior for further researcher.