Sentences with phrase «about video game violence»

When both companies were called in front of a senate hearing about video game violence, Nintendo US chairman Howard Lincoln launched a scathing attack on Sega for the violence portrayed in Mega Drive titles like Mortal Kombat and Night Trap.

It was included in a slew of other games, like Mortal Kombat, at a congressional hearing about video game violence.

When the Supreme Court was hearing the case about video game violence, a popular sentiment on the blogosphere was that the industry hadn't done much to prove that it was worthy of protection under the First Amendment (not that that should be a requirement).

The American debate about video game violence is a battlefield as vast and pocked as any you might find in a modern first - person shooter game.

Running parallel to concerns about video game violence are worries about the amount of time gaming can consume.

Not exact matches

Kaplan compares the issue to concerns about violent video games desensitizing and predisposing players to violence.

Drew Dixon writes about how video games waste the power of violence and how it can be better used as an art form.

But you still get dimwits who buy Saint's Row and think it's about Christian morals despite the fact it says «Excessive violence, gore, partial nu.di.ty, overt se.xua.l themes, and language» and then have the audacity to go after the video game industry for creating adult themed games.

We need conversations about movies and video games that desensitize our children to the effects of violence.

Find advice about how to talk to your preschooler about violence on TV, in the movies, and in video games

Find advice about how to talk to your school - age child about violence on TV, in the movies, and in video games

Although drawing conclusions about small population subgroups — such as kids at risk of violence — from broad population trends can be dicey, it is still worth noting that as violent video games proliferated in recent years, the number of violent youthful offenders fell — by more than half between 1994 and 2010, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

The actor would star in the docudrama about the clashes between Rockstar Games co-founder Sam Houser and a lawyer who sought to ban violence in video games.

Daniel Radcliffe stars as Rockstar Games co-founder Sam Houser in the docudrama about the fight over «Grand Theft Auto» and sex and violence in video games.

Since the days of Mortal Kombat, we've heard the pushback from concerned parents and lawmakers about the potential dangers of violence in video games, but until recently, it hadn't exceeded the decibel level of a dull roar.

When hearings were held in Congress in back in 1993 about the concerns of video game violence, and their effects on children, «Night Trap» was cited by Nintendo of America's Howard Lincoln, with a simple, yet famous statement:

When hearings were held in Congress in back in 1993 about the concerns of video game violence, and their effects on children, «Night Trap» was cited by then Nintendo of America's Howard Lincoln, stating that the game would «never appear on a Nintendo system.»

We chat about what it takes to have an interesting and unique perspective in podcasting, as well as video games that moralize about violence and being marginalized in gaming spaces.

With the Trump administration blaming games, not guns, for the latest shooting tragedy, we podcast about how video games have been, and remain, an easy scapegoat for violence.

Video game publishers traditionally stay glib about the issue of violence.

Hotline Miami, like the films above, is a contemporary satire about media violence, and any video game that can make a cerebral statement that strongly will forever make it's mark on video game history.

That is until President Donald Trump haphazardly tossed video game violence into a national conversation about what to do about mass shootings in the wake of the Parkland, Florida, massacre.

In that piece, she said: «We must have a meaningful conversation about mental health issues and other possible cultural and societal contributors to violent behavior, such as violence in video games.»

In the 42 years since the National Safety Council bleated concerns to the New York Times about gamers running down pixilated «gremlins» in the 1976 arcade game Death Race, science has yet to find a connection between video games and real - world violence.

On Thursday, March 8, the White House will hold a meeting with members of the video game industry to talk about gun violence.

The «violent video games cause violence» hypothesis was a not - unreasonable thing for people to worry about in the early 1990s, but 25 years later it's clearly false.

On Thursday, President Trump hosted a roundtable meeting at the White House with representatives from the video game industry to talk about violence in video games.

Created by Dennaton Games, this top down pixelated action shooter makes quite a statement about violence in video games today and with everything that has been going on in our media lately, this is an important game to think about.

If you would like to learn more about the history of and war on Video Game Violence, you can watch an excellent documentary here: The Creation of the ESRB by The Gaming Historian.

In this episode I talk to Dr. Christopher J. Ferguson about research on the effects of video game violence.

Now that our Oompa - Loompa in chief has finally shut his yap about video games and moved on to other ways of being just the absolute worst, we can continue the much - needed discussion on why video games are in fact, probably the leading cause of violence and most likely warping young impressionable male minds all across America.

On Episode 69 of the Super Podcast Action Committee, hosts Andrew Eisen and E. Zachary Knight talk about the «unique nature» of Valve Software's «family sharing program» for Steam, Fox News and Dr. Keith Ablow on video game violence, and a whole lot more.

It also resurrected the debate about whether violent video games and music can cause real - world violence, a debate which had been at the centre of the aftermath of the Columbine shootings six years earlier.

They need to take a long break, or to speed things up, have a Kurt Russelesque shirtless man sneak up on each developer and deliver an amnesia - inducing elbow to the back of the head (shitty video games cause violence), then have them read some books, play some modern RPG's and reconsider their approach to storytelling, character interaction, combat, dialog and everything else that is stale about Final Fantasy.

The meeting also appears to include a contingent of critics concerned about the impact of video game violence on young minds, such as retired Army Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, author of «Assassination Generation: Video Games, Aggression, and the Psychology of Killing.&rvideo game violence on young minds, such as retired Army Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, author of «Assassination Generation: Video Games, Aggression, and the Psychology of Killing.&rVideo Games, Aggression, and the Psychology of Killing.»

When people think about the sex, blood, and over-the-top violence in video games, they're more than likely thinking about any game in the Mortal Kombat series, which began in 1992, shocking and intriguing everyone with its dark yet somehow light - hearted tone (unintentionally helping to create the ESRB... It's that thing that gives out ratings that you're supposed to heed (though let's face it, no one does).

Who promotes violence more efficiently: me with my articles about video games giving you a chance to let off the steam or the gun lobbies persuading the nation the only solution is MORE GUNS?!!

This caused some problems in Europe, where there are usually tougher regulations about violence in video games.

What concerns me, and has for a while now, is not so much whether this is licit or illicit conduct — that is, what the law has to say about violent video games — but the prevalence of violence in video games and their immense popularity as social facts.

President Donald Trump raised concerns about the graphic depiction of violence in video games at a White House meeting Thursday with members of the industry and some of their most vocal critics.

Earlier today, President Donald Trump met with game industry executives and their critics to talk about the link between video games and violence, a topic many of us got sick of discussing years ago.

Game Design Challenge to challenge video game designers and developers to create video games about teen dating violeGame Design Challenge to challenge video game designers and developers to create video games about teen dating violegame designers and developers to create video games about teen dating violence.