Durkin & Barber, 2002) regarding computers games addiction (Cover, 2006). However, studies acknowledge paradoxical results (e.g. Is among these ambiguities that literature has been approaching the psychological and social outcomes of playing violent games (Sanford & Madill, 2007), namely mayhem engagement (emotional connotation to violence) (Gotterbarn, 2010) and cognitive bias (effect upon social attitudes and decision making) (Kirsh et al., 2005). The judiciary systems in US or Japan ruled on abundant cases of moral ambiguities, because interest groups seek to introduce special acts of law, which would govern computer game market (Jenkins, 2006). Thus, many computer games verge on being unethical or even illegitimate.

Several computer game creators are legendary for their boldness and it frequently occurs that their products stir up debates, leading to the censorship of their content since these encourage racism, drug abuse, violence, cruelty, rape, mayhem, as Grand Theft Auto exhibits (Kutner & Olson, 2008). Is important to identify the unlike games philology, because computer games can be differentiated through several features, as for instance: scenarios, game mechanisms or groups of recipients (gamers) (Kücklich, 2003), existing technologies that allow playing (Filiciak, 2006), or even their bond with cultural and social elements (Jenkins, 2006). Gonçalo Jorge Morais da Costa, Piotr Pawlak and Nuno Sotero Alves da SilvaĪ computer game is essentially a game activated by a computer, in which gamers control the items visible on the screen just for fun (Feibel, 2006).

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