Some games push all the wrong buttons. Check out this rundown of gaming's biggest offenders.
From the very beginning, video gaming has managed to stir up controversy. Exidy's 1976 arcade game Death Race raised the ire of the National Safety Council by rewarding players for running over gremlins. The 1982 Atari 2600 game Custer's Revenge angered women's rights groups for its tasteless depiction of non-consensual intercourse. Regardless of whether or not you happen to believe that video games are a valid form of artistic expression, you can't argue with their ability to tick people off.
And over the past 15 years, they've gotten really, really good at doing just that. So grab your picket sign and get ready to march as Yahoo.com look at some of gaming's most controversial games.
bbno$ has temporarily shut down his website after receiving a legal notice from Blizzard Entertainment related to Diablo-themed content.
When Google unveiled Genie 3, an AI that generates explorable 3D worlds from simple text prompts, investors responded by dumping video game stocks en masse—wiping out billions in market value in mere hours. But in their rush to flee, Wall Street confused "playable environments" with actual video games, ignoring the technology's hard limits while threatening the human creativity that makes games worth playing. As the industry faces a future of automated mediocrity driven by shareholder demands, the panic reveals a deeper truth: investors aren't betting on better games, just cheaper ones.
same level of fear that gen ai will replace art ... it is a tool that will help to prototipize open world games, but to completelly substitute game engines ... we are still a long way from it
Humans have been developing things to simplify jobs since the beginning.
AI is going to remove the human factor from the job, but it can never replace all jobs that need a human factor.
I wish I could see the end of the story. What is the end, end goal, final piece, etc.
Is it a world run by machines, do humans live in a free world, does a dictator finally have an robot army, do humans finally free of working forever, does ChatGPT create an army to defeat Gemini., so many possibilities …
Square Enix will announce a new title in the Life is Strange series on January 20 at 10:00 a.m. PT / 1:0 p.m. ET, the company teased.
Life is Strange: Reunion is the title that was recently leaked and it's supposed to have Max and Chloe back together. So they finally doing what should have been done nearly a decade ago.
No surprises in that list.
I used to have a copy of Custer's Revenge on the 2600. No idea why it angered anyone.
I have to say that many of the games on that list are the best available (or at least related to them). Lets hope there are many more to come.
what i find horrifying is how in a free market, and with the Bill of Rights and Constitution still in place, people find it appropriate (even their duty) to determine what can and cannot (or should and should not) be consumed. i want to place a ban on unconsistutionial litigiousness.
if you don't like popsicles, don't eat them. if you don't like randian fallen utopias in which you are faced with the option of harvesting children, don't play the game.
thank goodness controversy nowadays=$$$
I'm sick of how you can literally depict anything the sickest mind can come up with in a movie, but you can barely cross the line on a video game.
People have to stop looking at video games as strictly kids toys. Are we to believe that a kid stands zero chance at getting their hands on an R rated movie? From what I've seen it would be a lot easier than getting their hands on a video game rated above their age.
"if you don't like popsicles, don't eat them. if you don't like randian fallen utopias in which you are faced with the option of harvesting children, don't play the game."
Yeah... I agree with that.
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