Take Breivik’s statements about video games. To be clear, Breivik didn’t claim he was motivated by violent games (indeed he seems to have dismissed that idea) but rather that they helped him ...

Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik has threatened to go on hunger strike for better video games to alleviate his “torture”-like living conditions, in a letter received by AFP Friday.

But of course, we cannot explain away Breivik’s volience by video game exposure, albeit that this may have been an important part of his ‘training’.

That Anders Breivik was a regular player of violent video games does not explain why the Norwegian became the calm killer of 77 mostly young people, many of whom would have shared his gaming passion.