The State of Violent Gaming

Ownt.com writes "Today we talk with Running With Scissors' Vince Desi of the controversial, recently released gore fest, Postal 2. We talk with Vince about The State of Video Game Violence and his thoughts on the violent gaming, where it's been, where it's going and many other aspects surrounding whether or not games actually 'teach' the players to go... postal."

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Re:More fucking?

[tjw]

The sad thing is that (in the USA at least) graphic violence is apparently more acceptable than graphic sexuality. This appears to be exactly backwards.

While playing Enemy Territory (a first person shooter) a few days ago, another player asked me to refrain from typing swear words because his young son was watching. That's not an isolated incident. Many game servers even have mods for censoring "curse words".

If you ask me, the fact that using certain words in your language is more of a taboo than watching animated violence or graphic sexuality is even more sad. Though, personally, I like all three.