All the World's Wrongs: Games At Fault!

[charlesr]

http://www.computerandvideogames.com...k-video-games/

CVG takes a look into the world of being a newspaper and lying about the harms of gaming

Great article.

[Neon Ignition]

Timely as well, today The Sun runs a story titled Gaming as addictive as Heroin

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-07-08-the-real-story-behind-the-suns-gaming-as-addictive-as-heroin-headline

Literally, cannot understand why newspapers aren't held properly accountable for the stories, especially after the years of bother they've been in.

[Neon Ignition]

New controversy over this game, Hatred:



You play a man who runs around blasting civilians for no other reason than he is full of Hate. Naturally, it's caused a ruckus.

The developers are pretty mild mannered about the whole thing, clearly having gotten the attention they wanted, saying the game is no different than others with the exception that it doesn't bother justifying why you're doing what you do. The game uses Unreal Engine 4 and Epic has already requested it's logos's be removed from the trailers.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-10-16-epic-requests-its-logo-be-removed-from-civilian-massacring-game-hatred

[k0pp0]

Yeah... I dunno about this one - it could almost just be a publicity stunt. I found it pretty gratuitous.

[briareos_kerensky]

Yeah... I dunno about this one - it could almost just be a publicity stunt. I found it pretty gratuitous.

Reminds me of the first Postal.

[Dogg Thang]

Are we sure this is real? It feels either like someone is just trying to go for the obvious controversy in the hopes of quick sales, like Postal as Briareos mentions, or alternatively someone who is doing this as a commentary on gaming. If it's the latter, the attitude feels wrong and it's too close to a real thing. Except that might prove the point... likely just someone hoping to ride a wave of controversy.

[Brad]

Hoping for a WiiU version.

[charlesr]

Presume gameplay is all postal style and the graphic close ups are all cut scenes.... i.e. gameplay is similar level of violence to Syndicate (original) plus blood spatter.

[wakka]

Looks fun, I'd play it.

The logo rips off Doom's.

[Neon Ignition]

It gave me the Postal vibe too, just in a more straight faced manner. It definitely feels like a conscious attempt to get attention, I'm assuming it'll crop up on PC at some point though not sure Steam will have it

[briareos_kerensky]

Are we sure this is real? It feels either like someone is just trying to go for the obvious controversy in the hopes of quick sales, like Postal as Briareos mentions, or alternatively someone who is doing this as a commentary on gaming.

After reading Eurogamer's article, I guess it will follow the same path of Goat Simulator: joke at first (if it was in the first place), game will be done due to overly enthusiastic players.

[gIzzE]

Reckon you have to be some sad **** to be into that.

Will sell by the bucket load.

[Lebowski]

hmmm this sort of thing is a bit weird id liken it to a film like the human centipede a media product that's not very good that try's to sell it self on controversy alone. They are not going whole hog though, I'm surprised there not killing kids too (I suppose that would get it banned). I can imagine this game working well with an angry birds 3 stars type scoring system where not letting anyone escape ups your score as just shooting things that don't fight back would get pretty boring pretty quick.

[Mayhem]

1999: Gamers demand we stop blaming school shootings on videogames.
2014: Gamers threaten a school shooting because of videogames.

[Guts]

That Hatred game doesn't really seem to glorify violence and murder any more than your typical Ubisoft game, CoD (Airport scene comes to mind) or GTA for example. Is murdering with a "reason" or a "justification" (government, religion, personal gain) more acceptable than murdering for hatred?