The recent massacre in Oslo, Norway that left 76 dead has once again opened up an international debate centering on violent video games. The terrorist, Anders Behring Breivik, wrote about how he used Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and World of Warcraft to help train for the attacks.
But clinical psychologist Christopher Ferguson, a leading expert on video game violence and mass killings at Texas A&M International University, said video games aren’t to blame for this tragedy. Nor are games like Doom and Quake to blame for past U.S. massacres like Columbine. In fact, he believes placing the blame on video games whenever a white male is guilty of a killing spree is racist.
Former CEO describes lawsuit filed by Swedish pension fund as a "collateral attack" on Activision Blizzard.
Kotick Made $155 million from MS in the buyout, the little b*tch needs to stop whining. Thanks to this Microslop deal and massive industry consolidation thousands upon thousands of devs and other workers lost their livelihoods. This greedy piggie pervert needs shut up and f-off.
Also, the exterior decor limit will be increased.
Windows Central: "The money may keep rolling in, but Microsoft is the custodian of one of the biggest selling video game series in history. If something doesn't change, I fear we'll reach a breaking point and irreparable damage will have been done."
In my view, they should probably merge MP with Warzone and essentially make it free to play like Halo Infinite. The campaign/zombies mode can be $30 yearly DLC. I know this would be insanity as most COD players essentially pay the full price of the game simply for the MP. However-with a shrinking player base they may have to consider it. Making it free would bring in a ton of players.
To late MW3 should have been a lesson but here we are two years later with a steaming pile a shite called blops7
Nothing lasts forever, eventually something will come along to make people forget about COD
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@Oumba:”We’ve heard that story many times before 😂”
You know what we seen many times good franchises been run into the ground by bad management like h___o , f___a and most of the sports game oh I forgot the dynasty warriors
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Halo killer once arrived and technically call of duty killer also arrived, its name is Fortnite
Call of Duty was riding the revenue horse and charts for ~20 years. Whether undeserved or deserved.
But I endorse everyone to remind you that Microsoft could have decided differently when they took it over.
The money was certainly there, and they could have taken their time revamping the franchise:
Current-gen tech, manageable microtransactions, not imitating Fortnite and returning to core values of the franchise's origin.
They didn't.
Let's see next year. Hopefully without the then 13 years old PS4 and One hardware.
Racist is the wrong term for it, but it's equally ignorant.
Racism just keeps getting proven to become more and more invalid
Yeah, because white people aren't violent unless they play video games.
So his point is that people naturally assume black people are violent? Or that white people play too many video games or are easily influenced by violent media.
I get his point, video games certainly aren't to blame for this. The problem is just really bad parenting.
"approximately 95 percent of young boys have played a violent video game"
This point proves it isn't video games. That's almost all of them. Games are so commonly played that surely if those were to blame, all 95% of those young boys would be out killing people right now.
@tdogg
you my friend deserve a bubble.
I'm tired of all this racist sh!t. Why cant we just live and let live. Why when something happens, race is always a topic. I don;t care what skin color they are, if they do stupid sh!t like this, then they are sick bastards no matter what color.
so every war, and act of violence from the beginning of time was because of video games? riiiiight so i take it the Roman empire loved the arena from oblivion so much they did it in real life........please "experts" come back to me when you have some intelligence and realize that humans have been a savage race since day 1