As the community of Newtown and the nation struggle to make sense of the devastation, gun control, mental health issues and violent video games have all been called into question. Groups like Sandy Hook Promise call for a ‘national conversation’ and President Obama is rolling out plans to curb gun violence, but the search for solutions on how to avoid a repeat incident remains.
A new month means another Sword of the Necromancer: Revenant update. This one has info for a new game writer, consoles, and game monsters.
Huzaifah from eXputer: "With Larian Studios washing their hands of the IP, what is the ultimate fate of the legendary Baldur's Gate series?"
If anybody's gonna mention BioWare, then look at Archetype Entertainment, they're the new BioWare
or else
Obsidian is still a good choice but not independent anymore.
No, WoTC is pivoting to mobile. They can use Larian's work to justify DnD Go and everyone will accept it.
Announced in today's Nintendo Indie World, Double Dagger Studio's Little Kitty, Big City has big Stray meets Untitled Goose Game energy.
"gun control, mental health issues and violent video games have all been called into question"
I've said it before and I'll say it again, one of these things is not like the other...
I have been playing violent games for years now, and certainly started earlier than I should have but I have no violent tendencies and for the most part am of a calm and collected demeanor.
If your calling violent games into question then I insist you do the same with music, art and film, or any other media that may be deemed to be glorifying violence, if you're not prepared to do that then leave games out of it.
Now i want a chainsaw in the last of us >:D
We need psychotropic drug control!!!! That is the main suspect for many of these school shootings. These drugs are Zofloft, Ritalin, Prozac, Xenex, and many other anti depressants. Go to the website cchr.org, the Citizen Commission on Human Rights. These guys show proof with many video to watch about this. Its Epidemic that is worldwide, not just in America. This stuff go as far as Nazi Germany and further back middle age England.
i think all of this gun control,game control and mental health is getting out of control...i believe people want to kill and they blame it on video games, access to guns or they have a headache they hear voices......i know people that are on anti depression meds and they are still upset...anti pyschotic meds that are still "crazy and snap at any min"
When I was a child, I was violent. In school I would snap at nothing, throw desks and I was a threat to anyone else around me.
Nothing worked for me, not meds, not therapy, not anything.
It wasn't until my early teenage years that I figured out that I needed an outlet, Reading helped, but games are what really let me sit down and focus and deal with the confusing emotions I was dealing with.
It's not that I used them to escape my issues, I used them to help me calm down and focus and address them. Whether I was playing a calm non-violent game like Pokemon or causing full blown mayhem in GTA video games saved me from my anger and the future I would have had.
To me these arguments seem more like pointing the finger because no one has anyone else to blame. It's not that games cause violence, hell they prevented me from winding up in jail.
It's just the people, if you're more prone to violence you can be set off by anything and trust me I know. I once destroyed my entire classroom because I thought the person next to me was talking about me.
Like I said, video games saved me from that, and if they did that for me I have to believe they did so for others as well.
-Edit- Sorry with all these posts now about violence and video games I just felt I had to say this.