Back when the original Mass Effect was released there was a huge scandal on Fox News regarding a sex scene in the game, one that led to psychologist Cooper Lawrence to be forever discredited (at least by the gamers). This year, with the release of Mass Effect 2, people had some really high and hot [...]

As you probably noted recently, I am a real fan of Zynga’s Facebook game Farmville. It is fun, it is MASSIVE, and you only need a few minutes per day to play it. However, starting today, huge buzz started to gather around Farmville as Tech Crunch’s Michael Arrington posted a really interesting article in which [...]

Electronic Arts had a really stupid “advertising” strategy: they hired a few guys and girls to protest against the release of Dante Inferno. I have heavily criticized the protestants back then; afterwards, I have heavily criticized EA for this unacceptable (in my opinion) stunt, but the story keeps on going.

Germany has always been very strict when it came to computer and video games with violent content, and most of the games had to be edited and censored in order to be retailed in Germany. Things might change drastically and into worse from a gamer’s point of view since various reports suggest that the country [...]

One of the biggest surprises of E3 2009 was Valve’s announcement of Left 4 Dead 2 just several months after the release of the popular survival shooter. As a result, disgusted fans started to flood the internet with their protests and even created a Steam group to boycott the game – and the group now [...]

There is a point why nonsense critics exist: companies listen to them and can their promising projects because of them, even though these critics are plain stupid and have nothing to do with reality. It is the case of the recently announced Rendition: Guantanamo that got canned due to heavy criticism, and it comes fast [...]

I am not one of the biggest fans of Electronic Arts and I clearly don’t have their upcoming project, Dante’s Inferno, high on my priorities list, but this latest event during the E3 2009 simply enraged me and saddened me at the same time, proving me that indeed humanity will become as presented in the [...]

Rendition: Guantanamo is an upcoming action game developed by T-Enterprise, a Scottish developer. The game is already receiving its fair share of controversy, because of two reasons: it presents a near-future version of the real life prison (Guantanamo Bay), controlled by mercenaries and filled with scientists who conduct experiments on detainees; the game is also [...]

It appears that the controversy surrounding the announcement of Konami’s latest project, Six Days in Fallujah, a game about the war in Iraq, has changed things a bit inside the company who is now unsure if it would be good to publish the title in Europe. And if they don’t because of the protests, it’s [...]

Konami has just announced Six Days in Fallujah, an upcoming shooter title based on the events in the Iraq war and, even though we have no solid details about the title, some people are already calling for a ban, disgusted that it “glorifies the war”. Jack Thompson is probably jumping with joy after hearing that.
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