Most be another one of those violent video games, right? An Italian man who argued with his son over Sony PlayStation tactics was recovering in hospital on Monday after the teenager stabbed him in the neck with a 15-inch kitchen knife, police and hospital officials said. What was he playing? Grand Theft Auto IV? Modern [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Violence and Video Games'
Parents with Common Sense
December 13th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Commentary
I don’t know how many times in the last year my wife and I have received a movie from Netflix only to get about five to ten minutes into it and be amazed at the junk Hollywood is putting out. Some of these are PG and PG-13 movies. In the last six to nine months [...]
Responses to Walking Away from Violence
September 8th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Commentary
It seems as if I may have struck a small nerve on the Internet that generated some good ideas about how violence—mainly in video games—and kids go together. For some it’s not necessarily peanut butter and jelly and for others it’s not avoidable. I has thought about responding to the comments in the original post, [...]
Walking Away From Violence
September 2nd, 2008 · 12 Comments · Commentary
A week ago, my soon to be three-year-old son was being corrected for doing something wrong. He was upset by it. That’s not really a bad thing to be upset when you are corrected. Making your hand into a gun and yelling “Bang! Bang! Pew! You’re dead, daddy!” is. Before you raise any preconceived notions, [...]
Why I Am Not Playing GTAIV
April 29th, 2008 · 14 Comments · Commentary
Gamespot: 10 out of 10. Game Informer: 10 out of 10. X-Play: 5 out of 5. IGN: 10 out of 10. 1UP: A+. Gamespy: 5 out of 5. I would not be surprised if GTAIV is Game of the Year. I’m not playing it, and I probably never will. Here are my reasons in no [...]
Tags:Gamer Responsibility·GTAIV·Violence and Video Games·xbox 360
Sickos are everywhere
April 9th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Commentary
And some of them have (and play) video games! In an unrelenting attempt to make the tenuous violence-and-video games connection, we get a story like this. The media will not let up. Look for a ban on video game controllers soon, backed by Senator Clinton. This deplorable behavior by the boyfriend should be vilified and [...]
Suu-per-mann!
March 31st, 2008 · 1 Comment · Asides, Entertainment
“You are who you choose to be.” I’ve only known of three movies that cause me to tear up at the end almost every time I see them. I’m not ashamed to admit that one of them is animated. As far as I’m concerned Brad Bird’s The Iron Giant is nothing short of brilliant. I [...]
Tags:burnout·Call of Duty 4·Half-Life·Metroid-Prime-3·the iron giant·violence·Violence and Video Games
How long until?
April 16th, 2007 · 11 Comments · Asides, News
I am in no way minimizing the horrible shooting that occurred this morning on the Virginia Tech campus. It’s an awful mess and I feel terrible for those that were involved. I’m just wondering how long until it’s blamed on video games. I haven’t read many news stories recently — maybe it already has. Update: [...]
Bully watching
October 12th, 2006 · No Comments · News
So Jack Thompson wants to see someone play Rockstar’s new game, Bully. And it looks like he and his buddy-pal-judgey are going to get their way. Thompson said that he and the judge plan to watch the game played in its entirety, no matter how long that takes. Of course, anyone paying attention to the [...]
The infamous Modern Warfare 2 airport shooting
November 11th, 2009 · 7 Comments · Commentary, Gaming
Controversy can be good advertising. Although I have to give Infinity Ward some credit, when your game has been pre-ordered by everyone and their cat it’s not like you need cheap publicity to sell your game. While I tend to take a cynical view of business many times, this is one time when the facts as we know them seem to contradict the more jaded conclusions being jumped to.
I am, of course, talking about the already famous “No Russian” sequence in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Since the cat is already out of the bag and other websites have discussed this in detail I am going to give a spoiler warning here and move on.
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Tags:Call of Duty·Modern Warfare 2·Violence and Video Games·xbox 360