Lancashire based therapist Steve Pope has provided Fox News and the Daily Mail with a headline they'd kill for after he asserted his belief that “Spending two hours on a game station is equivalent to taking a line of cocaine in the high it produces in the brain."
Skewed and Reviewed have written an Opinion Piece covering issues in the gaming industry, how current issues were issues years ago, and what can be done to help restore consumer trust.
Nothing. It's up to the gamers to stop consuming content from companies that they don't agree with.
How do you know if you agree with it or not unless you play it? Which without conventions forces gamers to rely on trailers. Perhaps Demos should be made more frequently. But companies need to do better as well.
But is that not what they have now? Tons of gameplay or are you talking about watching actual gamers play it versus the trailers and streams? The big issue is that some companies pay streamers and influencers and they create content but for me; that is hardly a fair, unbiased, and factual look at a game.
They usually are attached to the money sadly. It would be nice to have gamers in charge but you have so much money invested that business people are needed. Hence the issue; you need people who know business but are also gamers who know have an eye to the community. It sounds simple in theory that if you give gamers quality games that they want to play; money will be made. But that is not always so.
Marie Dealessandri speaks to Borislav Slavov and Gustavo Santaolalla about “the new golden age of games music”.
A famous actor from Starship Troopers has showered praise on Helldivers 2 and said he is open to the idea of playing General Brasch.
What's that say about therapists? Coke toking gamers?
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One hour of Fox News is like an oil tanker of crystal meth.
What a ridicolous parallel! It produces the same high? Well, the high itself isn't even the dangerous part about the drugs. The high you get through SOME games is epinephrine, which is a hormone produced naturally by the body to keep the mind engaged and focused. You get the same damn phenomena from riding a bike or playing football!
God, Fox just takes any similarity between gaming and drugs and violence they can find... Watching Fox produces the same amount of anger as doing ecstasy... and it's probably less enlightening.