Thursday, July 23, 2015

Ludicrous Gibs for the Next Generation: Why Violence in Video Games is OK




The war on video games is over. Jack Thompson lost the fight against gamers back at the turn of the century in an embarrassing display of hyperbole where he parlayed that killing in games was responsible for real world massacres, ultimately arguing against children and teenagers being exposed to virtual violence.
For some reason, however, a few of the industry’s indie developers are trying to bring the fight back.
Michael Samyn, the co-creator of Sunset, has gone a few steps further than Thompson. In a recent piece on Gamasutra reposted from his original blog, he discusses violent behavior in video games:

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