Opinion by Matt S. Let’s start by stating the obvious reaction that many people are going to have on reading that headline: no, I don’t for a second consider that video game violence makes people become violent. That is not the thesis of this piece. I don’t think anyone picks…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. For anyone following the news, it’s been a pretty distressing couple of days. America experienced not one, but two mass shootings within a 24-hour time span, and these were of a scale large enough to make global news. Yes, America is still on track for more…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. Last week, the White House, run by that insufferable moron that the American people have somehow still tolerated in power, embarked on a full offensive towards game developers and the games industry. They pulled together a video of the most extreme violence in games and all…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. You’ve got to hand it to the French; they really do know their transgressive art. A new game, in development by Paris-based startup Le Cartel, is promising something truly… extreme… in terms of its content. To be published by Devolver Digital on September 5 on PC,…
Read MoreWhen Bethesda’s representative got up on stage at E3 this year, his big introduction were words to the effect of “are you ready for blood, guts, and blowing things up?” (I’m paraphrasing, but those were the precise three terms he used). Related reading: Our summary of the Bethesda conference. Now,…
Read MoreMortal Kombat X has just released. It is really a very good game, as I highlighted in my review. It’s also incredibly violent. Mortal Kombat X is as excessively violent as Dead or Alive 5: Last Round, released a few short months ago, is excessively sexualised. What I have found…
Read MoreWith Call Of Duty: Ghosts, the Australian Classification Board again lets down the Australian public
Opinion by Matt S. The Australian Classification Board has seen fit to give Call of Duty: Ghosts a MA15+ rating. This is the second-highest classification available in Australia and is intended to bar children under the age of 15 from playing the game under any capacity. But it isn’t the…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. Yesterday, Australian industry body, iGEA, and Bond University, released the Digital Australia 2014 report. This report has been an annual release since 2005, and charts the demographics of people that play games within Australia, as well as their attitude towards games. The full report can be…
Read MoreFollowing another tragic massacre in the US, the issue of violent video games has once again emerged as a heated debate. Neither side can see eye-to-eye on this issue, of course, and the usual arguments have been rolled out; the games industry insists that science proves them right. Concerned parents…
Read MoreOne of the things we learned from E3 is that the games industry has an appetite for hyper violence. It’s also going to collapse the entire industry. In business circles, what is going to happen very soon is something that sounds decent enough – “consolidation” – but that’s merely a…
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