Vyralize: December 2012, as you’re no doubt aware, a great tragedy struck the nation when a gunman (whose name I will refrain from using) entered Sandy Hook elementary school and murdered 26 students and teachers before ending his own life. It seems like a bad idea for something to make a game about, but that didn’t stop Ryan Lambourn, a notable maker of flash games and movies who got into the spotlight in 2007 when he made another flash game based off the Virginia Tech shooting. The game was posted on Newgrounds.com, Swfchan.org, and Swfcabin.com… and it hasn’t taken long for people, understandably, to protest its existence.
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.
Nothing. It's up to the gamers to stop consuming content from companies that they don't agree with.
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.
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.
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.
Marie Dealessandri speaks to Borislav Slavov and Gustavo Santaolalla about “the new golden age of games music”.
A famous actor from Starship Troopers has showered praise on Helldivers 2 and said he is open to the idea of playing General Brasch.
Wow this is really messed up BUT what about other games that portray terrorism bombings in the middle east? Why don't we bat an eye then?
This will never end...
Some people shouldn't have rights.
People are still doing this? This type of thing stopped being edgy in 2004.
I look at it look like this, it all boils down to several things like parenting, circumstances and such. If someone is hell bent on killing, weapons will be acquired for such, legally or illegally. If there are no more guns, people will kill each other for whatever means necessary as proven in centuries before hand. Humanity is a violent animal race whose tendencies can only contained but the thing is if we were ALL unified on a whole regardless, of language, creed, religion....I think we would have made strides already in deciphering the human psyche and creating the proper measures to recognize, contain or possible help these individuals at earlier stages to prevent things like these from what happened.
However, people with major influence on the world don't want to invest any time in making uniting human beings all because of one thing, no one is making financial profit from it or pride in relying on another country for help.
It's kinda like gaming, what if honest-to-goodness people who only created or publish games just for the love doing it flooded the industry and got paid fairly for it. Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft sharing ideas with each other to creating the best possible systems through quality alone instead of thinking of fleecing the consumer for less. I think gaming technology would have advanced tenfold by now......