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Fox: Videogames will destroy the Earth (one OTT headline deserves another)

Destructoid writes:
Not satisfied with making an utter fool of itself over the Mass Effect "controversy," Fox's pathetic attempts to discredit the games industry have reached new levels of ridiculous. The "news" source's Web site has published a story that claims research is now blaming videogames for the eventual decline of Mother Nature herself. It only briefly acknowledged the fact that televisions and computers are actually what the researchers reference in their little assassination attempt.

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Kakkoii5940d ago (Edited 5940d ago )

Wow.. Fox news is always up to something aren't they eh?

The only reason you can link Video Games with depression. Is because people with depression want to stay at home. And if you want to stay at home, what the hell else are you going to do to try and cheer yourself up? Go on the internet or play video games is what a depressed person would do to keep themselves from committing suicide. The video games aren't what cause depression.

If anything, they help keep depressed people from hitting the bottom and committing suicide.

(Btw, How does not going out in the wilderness lots effect mother nature? If anything it helps mother nature. It lets wild animals be at peace. It helps keep harmful garbage from being littered in the forest by people. It helps keep animals from getting sicknesses from humans passing by. And many other things.)

ravenguard885940d ago

I can't be respectful about it. They're disgusting.

wageslave5940d ago

The word you're looking for is Causality.

Causality:
"quality of causing effect: the action that causes an effect, or the ability to cause an effect"

Or, do videogames *cause* depression? That is the question. Why? Because CORRELATION does not equal CAUSALITY.

Its a simple element of logic. And, Fox's audience, being the most simple and ignorant people in the nation, dont understand that Fox is filling them up with stupidity.

Its like this; lets say 99% of the world's strippers are blond. It is right to say Being Blonde causes you to be a stripper?

Dr Pepper5940d ago (Edited 5940d ago )

Of course!!!

It must be the videogames!!!

Not the increase in the price to travel (gas prices, etc.). Or the fact that people have a ton of stuff to do on a regular basis. Or the fact they have seen it before and don't feel like going again.

/sarcasm

They obviously wanted the general public to view them as idiots, so they wrote this article. The hypocricy is so blatant that it's not even funny. Are they not a program that is on TV every day? Did they not just use a computer to make this article?

RecSpec5940d ago

Unfortunately the general public still views video games as a lower form of entertainment. So they might actually jump on this bandwagon.

Whoooop5940d ago

I sincerely think that Jack Thompson bought FOX..

Thoughts???

:)

RecSpec5940d ago

Jack Thompson aint got sh*t on Bill O'Reilly

yamamoto1145939d ago

At least Jack Thompson is siding with gamers on the Mass Effect controversy.

haloblows5940d ago

Is the greatest network ever!

i Shank u5940d ago (Edited 5940d ago )

whats so great about fox? network or pooping wise?

edit - so do alot of people on other networks. Fox is like the flaming fanboy of the major media networks; always trying to stir something up outta nothing

haloblows5940d ago (Edited 5940d ago )

Fox is pure awesomeness!

They say what ever the hell, they want to say.

ravinash5940d ago

Um....thats not what a news agency is supposed to do.
They are supposed to report news, not tell us what to think.

yamamoto1145939d ago

Clearly someone hasn't heard of "sarcasm" before.

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dinkeldinkse5940d ago

The baby channel is the greatest network ever.

haloblows5940d ago

What are you smoking? Fox is clearly the best.

dinkeldinkse5940d ago

The baby channel is clearly the best.

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Former Dragon Age lead writer David Gaider pours scorn on EA's AI dreams.

"They want you to believe the devs under them are super stoked to work generative AI into their processes," continued Gaider, "but I assure you what they took as excitement was really a veiled wail of despair not unlike the time that team was informed of their new 'really cool' live service mandate.".

LordoftheCritics2d ago

Publishers see gaming as another stock market.

isarai2d ago

I think anyone with some common sense knew this, im glad i don't support their games anymore, what a sh!t company.

Psychonaut851d 22h ago

Friends don’t let friends buy EA or Ubisoft.

Chocoburger1d 22h ago

I said this yesterday. AI isn't what we want when it comes to crafting artistry. Alas, these soulless corporate morons don't care about their work, only about cutting corners as much as possible.

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Phil Spencer and the Battle for Xbox’s Soul

Has the rapid growth of Xbox made the ship too heavy? Following the closures of Tango Gameworks, Arkane Austin, and Roundhouse, we explore what the future of Xbox could look like.

LG_Fox_Brazil2d ago

This ship was never meant to sail, this ship was made from the get go to sink as fast as possible. It almost feels that they want to lower the standards of quality in the industry so that they can fit in

rlow12d ago

I disagree, Xbox from the get go innovated and changed the industry. They did a lot of firsts and standardized a lot of others. It wasn’t till the beginning of the Xbox1 era that things started to go south.

Stevonidas1d 21h ago

Yep, although I’d argue it started going to shit when they tried to hock Kinect on their audience instead of continuing to invest in their studios and IPs. 2001-2010 Xbox was peak gaming, though.

rlow11d 20h ago

@Stevonidas
I agree they never should have focused on it after the 360 era. But you do have to remember they were faked out by the huge volumes of Kinects sold. To quote info on Wikipedia, “Project Natal, It was first released on November 4, 2010, and would go on to sell eight million units in its first 60 days of availability.” So if your Xbox and see these huge sales on a peripheral where are you going to put some money? Criticism in hindsight is worthless…..if only we could all see our future. In other wards they had no way of knowing. Plus they had engagement numbers and a lot of signs pointed to people wanting it.

Their biggest mistake wasn’t the Kinect, but unlike Sony after the PS3 debacle. They didn’t double on down on exclusive good games. The other huge mistake was letting Call of Duty go to Sony.

Hedstrom2d ago

Phil wants Xbox to be as soulless as him!

Tacoboto2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

Xbox has no soul and Phil has no confidence, and it's impossible to say either do when they killed Tango and Arkane Austin.

Everything they've said since has only made them look worse to a point that they're actually less competent than Embracer.

Markdn2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

Whe you release something like the series S and expect it not to hurt your business model, and developers have to have parity with games. Then you know Microsoft don't care. Series s is the final nail that broke developers,

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A Matter Of Trust: What The Game Industry Should Do To Win Gamers Back

Skewed and Reviewed have written an Opinion Piece covering issues in the gaming industry, how current issues were issues years ago, and what can be done to help restore consumer trust.

anast2d ago

Nothing. It's up to the gamers to stop consuming content from companies that they don't agree with.

Garethvk2d ago

How do you know if you agree with it or not unless you play it? Which without conventions forces gamers to rely on trailers. Perhaps Demos should be made more frequently. But companies need to do better as well.

anast2d ago

Wait until release. Watch Gameplay. Exercise patience.

Garethvk2d ago

But is that not what they have now? Tons of gameplay or are you talking about watching actual gamers play it versus the trailers and streams? The big issue is that some companies pay streamers and influencers and they create content but for me; that is hardly a fair, unbiased, and factual look at a game.

1nsomniac2d ago

Get rid of the suits in the industry and job done!!

Garethvk2d ago

They usually are attached to the money sadly. It would be nice to have gamers in charge but you have so much money invested that business people are needed. Hence the issue; you need people who know business but are also gamers who know have an eye to the community. It sounds simple in theory that if you give gamers quality games that they want to play; money will be made. But that is not always so.