No violent video games do not make people murder. Although I do believe video games help people rationalize murder and video games portray murder as something "ok" to do. But at the end of the day, rather or not people murder or become murders all comes down to personal responsibility,personal values and morals. People often use violence in video games as an excuse for their own violent  actions, that they committed at their own free will. Video games don't force you to commit murder, you your self choose to murder knowing full well its against the law and isn't right. Bottom line is don't blame video games for your violent actions take some responsibility for your actions, you had a choice and you chose to murder.  

It all depends on the mental strength of the individual. I'm not kidding when I say that certain people have absolutely no business playing video games, because even simple ones can leave an impression on those who are weak-minded. These impressions can be both positive and negative at the same time.
For example, a weak-minded person might play a whole bunch of Super Mario Galaxy, and it might make them happier, but it also might make them lose touch with reality. And then there's the side that gets reflected in the media often, and that is when a weak-minded individual plays a whole bunch of Manhunt, Doom, or Call Of Duty (or really any shooting game for that matter), then they feel targeted, always on edge, and before you know it they go on a shooting spree.

Of course there's a lot of people who will say that "video games make you violent in the same way that spoons make you fat", but for some people it's a lot more complex than that. There isn't much more we can do to prevent interactive media such as video games from getting into the wrong hands, we already have content control systems, the ESRB, and all that stuff. Violent crime has been going down because as a society, we're getting better at detecting people who are a potential threat to themselves and to others, even those who haven't played video games.

tl;dr: Video games only cause violence in people who are susceptible to violence, and we need to do all that we can to see that those people have no contact or limited contact with video games and other realistic media.

NVTaks : You can set research up to say either thing: Video games are or are not causing kids to be more violent.

Here's a study from Iowa State University, completed in March, 2014, that suggests the interactions of video games cause kids to be slightly more aggressive and resort to violence more quickly than their peers in social situations.

http://time.com/34075/how-violent-video-games-change-kids-attitudes-about-aggression/

Meanwhile, studies suggest the instant reward/failure of video games causes more violent reactions to losing.  Video games reward and punish immediately and a study from Ohio State ( I didn't grab the link) shows that not video games, but human reactions to failing and incompetence at video games causes kids to outburst more aggressively to all failure, be it social, physical, or emotional.

Do video games tell you to kill people?  No, that's silly.  Do the reactions to video games have an effect on normal human emotions and allow people to make bad decisions in times of great stress?

Go back and read the thread about Rage Quitting.  It takes a simple jump to go from all that anger to actually hitting, hurting, and fighting, and the natural progression, like a gang war, is killing.

Ok well video games defiantly do influence some people who play them, but ,  I think its rather ridiculous that they can get a motive to kill off a video game. Yes in Grand Theft Auto, you can kill people left and right with various weapons. But in all honesty thats a b.s. Excuse to killing someone. So no, I don't really think that playing Call of Duty or Grand Theft Auto influences people to kill.

If video games make people murder, then why aren't the millions of people in the U.S. who play these games mass murderers?

I think this answer is obvious, and disproves this whole statement.

No they don't make people murder. If someone wants to take a life of a another, there was already something wrong in that persons mind. I have played violent video games my whole life and I really hate violence and hurting other people in real life. So what I'm trying to say is that games has nothing to do in the fact that you want to murder other peoples even when you play example Prototype where you massacre hundred of people and monsters and still you can laugh and enjoy because if you are a sane person you know the fact that it's not real and you just want to have fun.. Just like if you watch horror movies etc. It's not like you want to be like the lunatic in the movie who kills people just for fun.. It's just that many people enjoys watching and playing things that puts fear in you. Just like The Walking Dead is very popular TV Show so that's one proof that people like to watch sadistic and gross things even though they don't want to do it in real life..

I can't really explain this properly, but anyways who wants to play games where you don't kill anyone or there aren't any violence in it? There aren't really many games like that.. It's just how the world is, I don't see anything bad about it.

So my final answer to this question is, they DEFINITELY do not make people to murder each other in real life... If they would, over half of the population of Earth would be sadistic lunatics who just wants to kill each others for fun.

No, the answer is just no.

My overarching answer is "no". It all depends on the person's mentality. If someone is not in the right mindset, then a video game may set them over the edge, and they may act on their feelings. Playing violent video games is only dangerous to those who are mentally unstable. A game cannot force you to do a specific something in the real world, not unless the game somehow hypnotizes its players. All a violent video game does is increase your adrenaline, and make it seem as if murder is an okay thing to do, but any sane person would be able to come to the conclusion that murder is not the rational answer. So no, violent video games do not make people murder, but they can be the catalyst that pushes someone over the edge. 

Hypothetically, someone could go their whole life without experiencing any violence, and therefore be completely appalled at the slightest bit of aggressiveness. However, this is extremely unlikely. People have been killing each other for a lot longer than video games have existed.

GenesisJunkie : Of course not! Ultimately you have a choice to do it. Now video games may have an influence but not a motive to go out and commit murder.

IgorBird22: You said that playing video games IMPROVES the murder rate, but I think you meant decreases. You might want to change that

For me, the answer is no. I play Call of Duty with one of my friends sometimes, and while it's normally not the kind of game I would play, I don't get aggressive of it. People you kill in games, have no personality, don't look weird, don't get a ridiculous pool of blood or wounds and don't scream out loud, so you're not that worried about them.

No video games don't make people murder. crazy people kill people video games don't make people crazy.
video game can't kill people people kill people.

Does Cooking Mama make me an excellent chef? No.
Does Pheonix Wright make me a great lawyer? No.
Does Goat Simulator make me a fantastic goat? No.
So how can violent games make me violent, with an urge to kill people?

No that is just a bad excuse to use for people committing crimes. Unless the person has some kind of mental problem in which case it's the person who let him/her play it from the start that's at fault. I've been playing games like GTA, Counter Strike, Halo etc. Since middle school and I have never even once been close to murdering someone. In fact I would suggest that it might even decrease the murder rate in certain situations.

There are violent influences everywhere, from your own mind to TV and the Net, but it only does harm to those who are vulnerable.
Exposing kids or the unstable to violence is a bad move, but that alone wouldn't make them dangerous.

The real issue is the society they are brought up in, a poor childhood can leave them vulnerable to influences, especially later on in life.
More needs to be done than to pass the buck on videogames.

no, violent games do not MAKE anyone do anything. nothing does, except yourself. even if youre a completely batpoop insane schizophrenic, you still choose your actions. hell look at me. i have played violent video games since my first video game. i love them. i find most non violent videos games to be boring. yet i dont go out murdering people. but on a video game, i will blow your head off without giving even the slightest thought to it. i believe ive been playing video games since about 92', so i was maybe 5 or 6 when i started. im completely insane to a level that most people cannot tolerate being around me for more then a few minutes at a time, and yet still, im no murderer, and am in fact a very non violent person.

No I think, it's depending on the person. If he's dumb enough to murder because a game, he'll do it