Violent videogames (VVG) like Call of Duty, Battlefield, and Counter-Strike don't have long-term effects on aggression or empathy, according to an fMRI study conducted by German researchers.
Hackers are using Call of Duty: WW2 to gain remote access of user PCs, forcing Activison to take the shooter down for the time being.
They knew about this. Its been littered about in the Steam reviews. They probably wont bring it back online.
“It is not safe to play WW2 on PC in 2025,” popular CoD content creator BAMS said on X (formerly Twitter). In an accompanying screenshot, they revealed an alleged hacker copied their gamertag, revealed their IP address in the game’s chat, and then struck them offline.
BAMS is far from the only example. In other instances, players have had their PC’s remotely taken over. This has led to notepad pop-ups in the middle of matches, and in some cases, even explicit material being pulled up on players’ monitors.
Ironically the counterargument that the European publishing union made to the stop killing games arguments is that this would never happen when a game is controlled by the publishers
In addition this is what happens when your game needs kernel fkn level access to your system it was never to protect players it was to protect Activision and they failed this isnt a typical server exploit this is a game that allows full access to your pc and everything in it and your network and it has been weaponised.
My question is what measures are being taken (if any are possible) to prevent the same thing from happening on any of the other COD games? Is this isolated only to WWII?
BAMS? The guy caught cheating and banned multiple times. No genuine player is gonna take what he has to say seriously
One of the only ways to play CS:GO on official servers is via the Xbox 360 version of the game.
We all know that videogamer.com went to each and every Xbox 360 owners house to watch them frantically dust off their 360s.
I love video games so much that I never have the time to replay the old one that I have finished, my backlog has only gotten bigger and bigger. I don't get how some people can play one game for years (except for mmorpg)
Wonder why they've never ported this game over to last Gen and now current Gen. This game would be pretty popular right now, I think.
The aggression studies are always a joke to me. If anything, they test when kids are frustrated with the controls or if the AI just beat them lol
There the problem has been settled. Dang!!!
in other news water is wet. Most things in life can be positive or negative, food, sports, games, etc. You can let them enrich your life or take over it but you cant blame them for your actions.
Great news!
Yes, we've known this for years, it's been proven time and time again. Now I wonder if people will concede, that since video games do not cause violence, that they don't cause sexism either?