How players manage moral concerns to make video game violence enjoyable

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Just a Game? Unjustified Virtual Violence Produces Guilt in Empathetic Players (2010, background): “However, Klimmt et al.'s (2006) study suggests that users may also perceive and judge virtual violence in a moral way.”
How Violent Video Games Communicate Violence: A Literature Review and Content Analysis of Moral Disengagement Factors (2014, background): “How do violent video games communicate violence? In the context of this question, moral disengagement factors embedded in violent video game play have recently received considerable attention among scholars (Gabbiadini et al., 2012; Gollwitzer & Melzer, 2012; Greitemeyer & McLatchie, 2011; Hartmann ”
It’s okay to shoot a character: Moral disengagement in violent video games (2010, background): “Research by Ladas (2002) and Klimmt et al. (2006) suggests that players do engage in such processes to minimize unpleasant feelings that may emerge during play.”
The Video Game Experience as “True” Identification: A Theory of Enjoyable Alterations of Players' Self‐Perception (2009, background): “Research on wishful identification thus combines conceptual similarities with parasocial relationships (Giles, 2002; Klimmt et al., 2006a) and with celebrity worship (Brown, Basil, & Bocarnea, 2003; McCutcheon, Ashe, Houran, & Maltby, 2003).”