Games As The Mainstream Media's Demon

1up has an editorial up exploring the biased nature of mainstream media gaming coverage, especially in light of the recent Hot Coffee scandal. From the article: "...Are CBS, Donny Deutsch, and Ed Bradley actually informing their viewers--or just inflaming their fears in a culture already on edge? Many, certainly many in the videogame industry, believe it's the latter. There's no shortage of gaming coverage, but it seems that what's out there, outside of enthusiast coverage, focuses disproportionately on certain kinds of games or on partial information that does no justice to the industry's successes. "

Comments

everyone one has a bias

[mikek3332002]

every one has their biases. You would not hear Blizzard saying Wow is evil

Re:Letter to The Editor

[El_Muerte_TDS]

The current ESRB rating is flawed? Please tell me, how is it flawed? And how could the ESRB playing the game more than once before rating it even change anything (specially in the case of San Andreas).

I finished the game and I didn't see any "hot coffee" in the whole game. Granted, I didn't install the patch to enable it (which was released after the game was rated and released).
How could the ESRB make their ratings more comprehesive? Do the need to include graphical examples of what they mean with "Intense Violence"?

If you don't understand the current rating your are mostlikely too stupid to play the game anyway.

(24 yr old nerdy programmer that also playes games a lot, including very extreme violent games that according to some will make me kill people just for the fun of it, that isn't to weak to start a fight but never has, never got any ticket, except movie, train and amusement park tickets, for anything.
But if you don't listen to me I might even consider to hunt you down and shove my opinion down your throught, or maybe not ;) )