Yahoo! News: China place blame of youth violence and pregnancies on gaming
Christmas day. The score: Vikings 14 to the Steelers 0. Good ole Madden
2010. The person playing as the Vikings = Hasn't owned a system since
the days of the Dreamcast. The other, a pre-teen hardcore gamer whose
360 just RROD on him(which I helped him replace.) Out of anger and
shame from such a loss, he then decides to bludgeon the victor with his
elite wireless 360 controller(complete with silicon case) followed by
smashing the xbox into several pieces before rampaging through the
house killing everything in site with a shard of plastic fashioned from
the remains of said xbox 360(arcade version at that).
No, that is not how it went down. Nor do I decide or fantasize over
killing everyone who dares steal my care-package in MW2, or who kills me
with Akimbo Shotguns for that matter. After playing Assassin's Creed 2 I
did not create myself a "hidden blade" with the set of Ronco knives(yes
I have a set of Ronco knives.) and start jumping rooftop to rooftop
searching for my contract kill.
Which brings us to this article regarding the news in China. So apparently, there have been assaults, MURDERS, Teen pregnancies because of online gaming. A
program titled: Confession of a Murderer -- Focus on Pornography and Violence in Online Game (Part Two), features a boy in a Beijing juvenile prison serving life after killing five people over virtual goods. According to this program, 80 percent
of the violent inmates can thank video gaming to their criminal history.
Amazing. So why is it some kids decide to go nutso while other kids are
perfectly fine after playing games? Is that the ultimate question? Or
has it already been answered. I play my fair share of violent games. In
fact I did not skip the airport mission of MW2(honestly, because I
didn't realize you could.) . I do know that somewhere along the way I
was taught what was real and what was entertainment. Somehow, I learned
what was right from what was wrong. By some miracle, or perhaps intense
training, I knew that this is fiction.
I will admit that my overactive imagination can be inspired by these
games (movies as well). But not to the point that I want to act out on
them. More so, what could be done different..IN THE GAME. Or how I
would have plotted out the kill...IN THE GAME. No, I am not Kratos,
Nathan Drake is not my name. But do I dream about being them? What for?
When I CAN be them...IN THE GAME. No different that playing cops and
robbers, cowboys and indians. Or in my childhood case. Ghostbusters,
Gi-Joe Vs. Cobra, Autobots against the Decepticons...etc.
So whats the difference between my pre-teen cousin and some kid in jail
for murdering someone over stealing armor or mana, or whatever it is
you steal in those games? Not too sure. But I do know, that looking at
my daughters, neither one of them will go out, and kill some poor kid
all because that kid dared to steal the golden sword of light made of
awesomeness that boosts your HP to 75 and is the be all end all
ultimate weapon. Or for just taking your Mana, I promise.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
I like this. I did a paper in college on violent video games and violence in teens. There really is no correlation between the two. Certain people are already wired that way. No amount of violent video games made them that way. You can be taught to be a bad person but games alone aren't enough. People want to blame anything but themselves and their surroundings on their problems.
I realized few days ago that if I get killed, if I commit suicide or if I kill someone, the first thing people will know is my relationship with gaming: I used to work for video game websites, I work for the biggest French video game retailer, I have a small collection of video game figures and I have several convenient full of games and consoles.
Headlines: "Another video game psycho dies / kills because of violence in virtual worlds".
When you see that Saw is at its seventh episode, people critically acclaim Hostel-like movies, John McClane kills dozens of cyber-terrorists in a single night, we consider Quentin Tarantino as one of the best movie producer / director (don't misunderstand, I love Quentin Tarantino), there's not a movie without a dead and a sex scene... How can we consider video games as a violence trigger when movies do worse without any uproar?
Video games are just a scapegoat, people bash it simply because it's an entertainment that has no defender, they are considered as inferior culture and gamers are caricatured and marginalized. Just take a look at the conception of "gamer" in TV shows. Every time it's about a gamer, it's a nerd that talks in incomprehensible lingo and that cannot make the difference between virtual and real, good and bad, and they even tend to prefer virtual to reality. And when we see a video game, it's often a violent one with seasick camera and extreme violence.
People that commit murder or suicide with the influence of video game exist, but that's not the video game itself that encouraged the player to kill his neighbors, such people are already mentally disordered and video games are just a pretext, just like can be a movie or a song.
Rage, sum may call it nit picking but i call it attention to detail. how can u have not known that the airport mission in MW2 could've been skipped? wen u 1st boot up the game it asks u that the possibly offensive mission can be skipped if u wunt b4 it lets u do anything. this makes me wonder if ur lying and if i should take ur blog seriously...