Mass Effect sex scandal 'embarrassed' Fox News - Bioware

CVG: Bioware boss Ray Muzyka has observed that Fox News' reporting of the 'sex scandal' in the original Mass Effect "embarrassed" the station.

[DrRobotnik]

People are dying all over they world and they report on a sex scandle in a VIDEOGAME?!! This is why I watch the weather channel.

[edhe]

Why talk about war in some other country when you could talk about TEH HOORORZ THAT HURTZ YUR CHILDEREN!?!?

That, people, is conservative mindshare in action. Thank god you voted Obama, it makes the world more comfortable.

[HolyOrangeCows]

Bah, he was just the mainstream choice. Our economy continues to suffer over his wasteful spending and negligence (Keeping dead companies alive, proposing bills with several programs with few outlines/restrictions, not addressing several issues). There are plenty of other persons that the world would have loved to have lead America. Like Ron Paul.

Anyway, this "Se"Xbox thing was nothing short of both sad and hilarious. Why both conservatives and Liberals can't accept that games have ESRB ratings and can be monitored with them is beyond me.

[Mo0eY]

News isn't a joke, Faux News is.

"Fair and balanced," my ass.

Edit: @Above Ron Paul 2012.

[King_of _the_Casuals]

I doubt this would have embarrassed FOXNEWS because the whole FOXNEWS channel is embarrassing.

They cater to people with lower IQ's with water downed content. They also practice HIPHOPGAMER type of journalism by using sensationalism journalism. There the worst Fear-mongers of all the American media....and that's saying a lot.

And I always laugh out loud everytime I see there tag...."Fair and Balanced!" LMFAO!!! For it to be honest it should read...."Fair and Balanced only to Right-wing conservatives who believe not everyone is born equal."

[TheLog]

Hey its free advertising on Fox. It saved them about millions on advertising. Like they say there si no such think as a bad publicity. Any publicity is welcomed.

[Kurylo3d]

People keep talkn about how the economy is still hurting... last i checked it was sky rocketing.

my stock has gone from $1 when i purchased it to... $6 now... and lots of stucks are doing that... and this is a bank stock no less!

i made back 6x my money and im gonna make a whole lot more.

[HolyOrangeCows]

Some rising stock doesn't mean a replenished economy. Go take an economics class.

[TooTall19]

Start watching @ 1:32. It's really funny.

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[jamesgtaiv]

Ron Paul is the man. The media is just there to keep your small mind preoccupied. Many other countries laugh at us for it. More than half the nation is asleep. "Thank god you voted in Obama." No, dumbass, You voted in that murderous f*ck. My hands are clean.
And last I checked, the world isnt more comfortable, Its poor. Not to mention since Obamas first month in office, the "federal" reserve has been granted more and more power over the countries economy despite the laws they break on a daily basis, just by existing.

[Arnon]

Seriously... if there's any news that's a joke, it's Fox News. Talk about conservative to the hardcore. I watched Fox last night and a man was interviewing a woman, and after tirades of him complaining about Obama, she finally said, "When are you going to get over this?" He basically said never, and that he would make a better president.

The entire broadcast is a joke.

[Darkstorn]

@1.2-
I agree with you...only to the extent that we need more regulation of the financial sector. We should not have given taxpayer dollars to failing multinational corporations with no strings attached.

That being said, regulatory agencies, such as the Federal Reserve, have taken too much of a hands-off approach to manipulating interest rates. We need someone to head the Fed who will stop doing exactly what the banks want, someone who is not a Greenspan-inspired Republican like Bernanke.

[Darkstorn]

@1.9-
The reason other countries laugh at us is because of reactionary ideologues like Ron Paul.
Let me remind you, this is the guy who wants to reinstitute the failed gold standard and bring back the Gilded Age. He's also the one who wants to do away with income tax, which would be disastrous, to say the least.

[jamesgtaiv]

The federal reserve is not a "Federal" institution, its a private bank. Its unconstitutional to begin with. A constitutional republic cannot exist if it has a central bank. The fed should be audited and later put to rest. They only added the word "federal" to fool the american people into thinking its part of our infrastructure. Dont be fooled. These people want nothing more than power. They could give less than a sh*t about the money. Its just a ladder they use to control the wealth of this country.
Doing away with the federal income tax would cause panic but not disaster. There is supposed to only be an income tax on corporations that employ over 50,000 people. There is no law supporting the income tax, period. I agree we shouldnt do away with it completely. We should however change the distribution of it. Right now 64% of it goes where? The federal Reserve. Its a crime. Im sick of seeing bankers run my country deeper and deeper into the grave. By the time my kids are my age, it seems there will be nothing but a police state within this hole we call our country.

Youre right about Greenspan. That assholes' got his name engraved on almost every politicians forehead. Obama, Bush jr and Bush sr., Regan both the Clintons...

[Darkstorn]

@1.13-
That's not entirely correct. A good analogy for the Federal Reserve would be the ESRB - it's essentially a regulatory agency headed by a government representative (Ben Bernanke, who is appointed by Congress), that features bank representatives on its panel of consultants. It can raise and lower interest rates as it sees fit.
The reason the federal reserve exists, as with the ESRB, is to regulate without the federal government creating its own agency.

Now, I would happily get rid of the federal reserve system if we replaced it with a new, more powerful regulatory agency that would answer to Congress. Greenspan kept interest rates low, encouraged risky lending, and brought the U.S. economy to its knees. Bernanke, unfortunately, is repeating those mistakes. I say jack up the interest rates to around 14% (as Paul Volcker did in the 1970s to great success) and watch the banks wince as they lose their grip on the Fed.

I suppose I should say that the problem is not the Federal Reserve system, but the man running it. If he would stop answering to banks, the Fed chair could bring us back to post-WW2 levels of prosperity, without the constant recessions and depressions that ailed us when we had a gold standard.

[Raz]

Mainly because they're totally shameless. Embarrassment is just another PR band-aid.

[sid4gamerfreak]

Isn't this news old? I absolutely HATE Fox news and other similar news channels who look down upon gaming...

[toaster]

BWAHAHAHA Americans.

[mrv321]

Fox news... and fair media. LOL

http://www.youtube.com/user...

Watch that channel and lol.

Seriously fox news is about as accurate and unbiased as mass effect was close to be a sex sim or however they put it on that disgusting segment.

[Saryk]

Hate to break it to you, all news organizations are like that now, it’s about the money, nothing else.

[mrv321]

I'm not American, here I feel our news stations tend to be less biased, while morning show like GMTV are simplified I find BBC to be overall a better news outlet than fox, mind you I am not in the ideal position to rate other countries only watching a couple hours of American TV.

[Theoneneo81]

yes but atleast you dont have some one on CNN calling out people that are A. the Next Hitler or the next Communist leader *cough glen beck* cough.

[nnotdead]

no, just all cable news channels, and every "news" blog on the internet. lets not forget about most newspapers and magazines.

never mind.

[feelintheflow]

You have Fox News with their opinion shows like Hannity, Beck, etc. on the far right of the spectrum, and MSNBC with Rachel Maddow and Keith Olberman that are on the far left. Its sad really. Its almost impossible to get any news now without some personal bias. When AP articles are comparing Obama to the messiah, and another article calling him hitler. So sad. Don't watch opinion shows, you only get one side of the story that way.

[Solidus187-SCMilk]

fox news has the dumbest people in the world on their station 24/7.

[Austin_SJ]

Fox is rubbish except for its unbiased political affiliations.

[UltimateSin]

Good, stupidity and made-up facts should be good cause for embarrassment.

[RAM MAGNUMS]

it must of have lower than expected sales because the gamesites are trying to stir up expired controversy. in gaming news, this is a extinct issue. mass effect 2 made the pre teen rating for extreme cheesiness already.

[Vip3r]

Yeah fox, because if it wasn't for Mass Effect nobody would ever end up wondering about sex.

Muppets.

[QQcrybaby]

Yea Fox's ratings are really down nowadays. Oh wait, no they're not.

Actually, Ray, Fox is the biggest player in the news game and this story isn't even a blip on their radar.

[FragMnTagM]

They cover ridiculous "news" stories and get people riled up so they talk about everything and anything other than IMPORTANT issues.

[sxpacks]

This story is over 2 years old! How did this make it on the front page? OVER 2 YEARS OLD!

[ChrisW]

Below the title!

"Monday 29-Mar-2010 4:31 PM Ray Muzyka looks back and laughs at dodgy reporting"

[junkiegamer]

Fox news suck. first off. second it's a freaking rated M game that mean that little johnny. should not be playing it. and if he is that's poor parenting. Just because little johnny's friend has it that does not mean that he does. you not the parents of his friend. So the real story is that it's bad parents buy there 7,8,9,10 ect. kids rated M games. oh some may say that video games lead to killing or what ever. well it's not again the parents fault, they did not do the job and teach there kids from right and wrong. well you don't give a 7 year old a beer do you? NO!!!!! you don't give them a porno? NO!!!!! well if you really think about and I mean really thing about it. It's really almost the same thing. Oh one last thing adults do play video games as well I guess Fox news are just brain dead and don't know that the average gamer is like 15-35 years old so get with the program Fox news.

[SnakePlissken]

This is old news, why are they bringing this up again? Must be another hellbent antifox leftwing extremist again! I guess thats why they are #1 in the ratings and are one of the only ones that reports whats really going on in the world. Unlike most other networks. Everyone is entitled to a mistake once in awhile as long as its not a major one, so stop your whining little libbys. At least Fox doesnt lie all the time and try and make everything about race like msnbc and cnn. That is flat out dangerous and much more serious. Those networks are going to create a race war. Mark my words cuz its coming. Very sad!!!

[hoops]

Fox News is a Joke and laughed at indusrty and world wide. They have a huge audience because they produce some of the worst baiting material around. They have been caught in so many lies over the past decade or so that its comical they even call themselves "Fair and Balanced"
Any NEWS source that has to say "FAIR AND BALANCED" is not.
Fox News is a joke...Glenn Beck? Hannity? Bill O'Reily?
LOL Real news and no spin LOL

[Darkstorn]

If MSNBC had hated on video games, I'd call them out for it.
Unfortunately for you, MSNBC has not hated on video games, but Fox News has. We're talking about Fox News on this forum. Save the MSNBC hate for your blog.

[jf3sh13]

I hope you are trying to be sarcastic, if not I believe you are an idiot

[Another One]

This comment was written by the only person who agrees with Snake.

Fox did screw up with this though. The whole segment made me cringe and it was clear that the "expert" knew absolutely nothing about the game. But it's not just Fox and right wing people that hate on games; some of the biggest haters are on the other side of that fence.

[Walrus]

You all act like this bias in the news is something that happened recently. As far back as you look, the news has always been bias to the extreme. Every time I read comments on here about how sources are just just looking for hits with their titles, I roll my eyes. Of course they are. That's what the news industry is. It's alwyas been an effort to make a big deal out of nothing, because bottom line, IT"S A BUSINESS.

[Saryk]

Pretty much what I stated. I don’t know how old you are, but back in the late 70’s until the internet, the news stations done the news.

Now, news stations have these experts who are so smart that they tell everyone how to think about the current topic. If the topic is really dramatic, then Michael Moore will do a documentary. Too much money involved and political bias.

[AngryTypingGuy]

I saw them discussing on Fox News. It was disgusting how uninformed they were. They even said that the rating for the game was on the back of the box so it wasn't easy for parents to see. Idiots.

[Reigen]

theres a hell of a lot more sexual content(and stronger content might i add) in movies and i dont see anyone complayning about that
and besides, when was mass affect targeted for children anyway
youre awarege gamer is in its 30s

[DigitalHorror81]

When so-called 'journalists' report on something they either know little or NOTHING about. Case in point, Mass Effect. They don't PLAY the game, they only take 2 minutes to read the box. Sickening. I'm all for watching the news, but for goodness sake, report on something that you know without looking like a fool!

[SnakePlissken]

Snake doesnt like politicians, especially liberal ones!!!

[hoops]

LOL. They are all bad...LOL

[SnakePlissken]

rofl

[mortalrage]

I think its funny how liberals dog Republicans. Aren't Republicans smarter, because they figured out how to get rich, and the Liberals keep wanting to tax more and more of the their riches since they weren't smarter than an Republican and earn it?.

I'm republican, because everyone can't be on welfare. xD

wtb naked photo of Sarah Palin, or trade for Hiliary Clinton Photos

[skottey]

I loved Mass Effect 1 and 2 and I watch Fox News daily. Even if this story was everything Fox News said it was however (which it wasn't accurate), they were still being very hypocritical. Look at some of the stuff on the Fox Broadcast Network!!!! Sex, violence, filth!

I watch my share of filth in movies and TV and I am not easily offended. I have been watching horror and porn movies since my youth. I was offended by a recent Family Guy (and I normally love that show) that made fun of Terri Schiavo, they lady with no will who's husband pulled the plug after years against her parent's wishes. It was just a horrible story at the time and it isn't funny any way they try to slice it. So Fox airs that horrible stuff and they don't report on it on Fox News, but they reported on something in a game. Isn't Family Guy aimed at teens and older kids?

Again, as a daily Fox News viewer, I do think they were very hypocritical airing the Mass Effect story. But like others have said, it gave free advertising to Bioware.

[Another One]

Agreed completely with that. I watch Fox regularly, but anyone can spot bullsh*t when they see it. It was a terrible story. Fox just tried to pull some news out of their asses. All news stations do it.

[Ivan Drago IV]

The guy that said "our economy continues to suffer because of Obama's policies" a 5.7% GDP growth, consumer spending up, a rallying stock market and soon to be positive jobs report disagrees with you my friend.

[SnakePlissken]

rofl, your kidding right? wake up dude, obama is continuing to bury us in a deeper hole! what is wrong with some of you people? are you just blind or just misinformed? fox is one of the only networks nowadays that doesnt kiss obamas @ss and is more for the people than just 1 frikin side! the mainstream media and msnbc are so god damn liberal its not even funny. obama can never do wrong in their eyes and thats wrong. i am neither conservative nor liberal, so get it right. personally, i think politics are all bunch of snake oil lawyers trying to convince one another on their plan! its a joke! they are ALL bad, but sorry people obama is the worst and most least experienced in the history of america! he is a product of the most uneducated and clueless generation of voters its a disgrace. some of you people that voted for him should be absolutely ashamed of yourselves! you just screwed yoursleves and the rest of our lives for the future. i voted for no one and i think america shouldve took a stand and done the same for once! get ready to get f@cked real soon people cuz you just opened the doors for obama to do it! thx idiots!

[ASSASSYN 36o]

Faux news embarrass it self all the time. They don't need a video game to do it.

[e-p-ayeaH]

Like many american news shows...but i like watching them fail big time on daily show love it.

[BadKarmaSutra96]

If the people running fox news would get laid every once in awhile they would realize that what they just saw wasn't "full frontal nudity".

[SnakePlissken]

You must not watch it then. Fox has some of the hottest chic journalists on any network period! Im sure they have no problem gettin f@cked man, lol. Put it on msnbc if you wanna watch a bunch of bitter ugly looking bull dikes talk outta their @ssess, yuck. NO THANKS!

[JeepGamer]

One person who did not work for Fox made a stupid claim on one show one time and Fox offered Bioware the chance to come on and set things straight, which they declined to do.

Fifty to one hundred times more time has been spent trying to attack Fox News over this than was spent talking about Mass Effect.

[memphis2]

what's the deal with the sex scene in mass effect 2?? i do not see anything wrong with it. looks to me a pg-13 rated movie...there are lot worse sex scenes in other games that makes this look like G rated movie!

[Gish]

Goes to show you how old this is. They were talking about the 1st Mass Effect when it came out.

[Gish]

OK everyone pat each other on the back for being so smart... I swear it's like you caught FOX in bed with your mother AND your sister... Let it go!

[RockmanII7]

The only news I need is on N4G, Gamespot, Gamestop, and Ray William Johnson (It's a youtube channel).

[bobdog626]

Heavy Rain and God of War has more sex flicks than Mass Effect. More News at 11:00

[CrIpPeN]

I think Fox News is always embarrassing when they speak about something. They always have no facts.

[Advari]

Its Fox news they are a joke they could not have a news story if it bit them in the ass. I played Mass Effect and the sex scenes were made for tv porn at the most. Its not like a hardcore porno that a person rents at Blockbuster