I bumped into the story of a man pointing out that he thought L4D2 is racist (you know because of the awful fact that there is a ethnic zombie in the game). He also pointed out how Call of Juarez is a racist game because one of the characters was an confederation soldier (so everyone living in the southern states of U.S during Civil War must be racists).
Racism is a serious issue but I think we have gone overboard in thinking of what is racist. This issue caught my attention during release of Far Cry 2 where some enemies were black. There was some talk about how it was offensive. There was a big article at www.gameplayer.com.au/. In this article there was a lot of talk how the game was racist. I got so upset I had to join their site to leave a comment on the article. The article claimed that the game was racist even though the ratio of white and black enemies is about 1:1.
Now I cannot understand in what possible way the game was racist. You killed as many white as black people, there were white and black people plotting on the both sides of conflict and the only ones people who helped civiliances were black. Infact all the people (except Jackal) who take advantage of the situation are white. The game takes place in africa! I think it would be rather racist if in game which takes place in africa there would be no black people.
Now it seems that L4D2 is racist because some of the zombies are black. So the game takes place in U.S, in the so called "melting pot of world" and there can be no black people in it. I think that would be racist. I could understand that the game was racist if you could kill the black zombies in some more evil and gruesome way, or that all of them would be black and white people would be killing them. But it doesn't go that way.
I hear racism only in one context only, that white people are racist. Now if we can only kill white people in games it is not racist, it is just normal. It doesn't matter if the character is mexican, black, white or indian, it is normal to kill white people.
Once a opinion poll maker asked me what kind of attidude I had towards ethnic people, I told him I don't have attidudes towards ethnic people, I only have attidudes towards people. I think it is time to stop speaking of black, white, red, caucasian and African American people, and start talking about people.
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.
We need to stop the black on black crime! but killing a white man is just fine...
I've stabbed, shot, ran over, and blew up black, white, Asian and Hispanic people on a daily basis in video games.
It's never once crossed my mind, or the minds of my friends, whether they be white, black, Hispanic, Asian, or otherwise that it was racist. It was just a game.
The only people racist here are the people who are causing the 'It's racist' BS in the first place.
Video games are racist to aliens.
But
Bring more black people into gaming, stereotype Square Enix should GTFO! And More games from Epic!
the problem is black on black crime. beides that res5 got the same crap for dipicting africa as a bunch of zombies. racisim in america have made this such a touchy issue. me i feel its a game so when the ballad of gay tony comes out and i go around beating the hell out of homo's does that mean the dev's hate gay ( maybe LOL) but that shouldnt be the case.
This is the same serneio with 6 day in fallujah its just too close to real topics. from what i learned in dev class is that you stay away from real life events or issues.
you think people complain about racism in a game think about this.make a video game and not include one girl and then make a sqeual and still not include a girl. see your sells decline women who play video games want to see women in video games. leave them out and their a huge problem.
point is the video game industry is touchy on what you can release because its usually violent,very violent, and people get attached to their characters (atleast good ones)so if something bad is happening the player feels it more.
One of my dream game plays on this