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What's this ten-year-old doing in my M-rated game?

Gamedwellers looks at minors and gaming and what role the government should play.

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g-nome4177d ago

I suspect half of all COD players are under 18 yrs of age.

Detoxx4177d ago

Its a fact. Couple days ago a kid from my street (7 years old) walked up to me saying he bought Blops 2 and that it was awesome and all that LOL.

NukaCola4177d ago

Saw a lady in the store the other day with her son who was about 8 or 9. She was buying him Blops2 for Xbox.

Pozzle4177d ago

I saw a similar thing the other day in EB Games. A mother asked the store assistant what game he'd suggest for a 9 year old boy for Christmas. He said Black Ops 2 because "all the kids are playing it". Nevermind the fact that it clearly had an M15+ rating on the box and the posters all around the store, and there was a TV nearby playing gameplay footage with lots of shooting. She still ended up buying it. Didn't even ask what the game was about.

NukaCola4177d ago

@Pozzle,

You'd of thought he would of pushed to sell her a Wii U. What an unethical douche.

HarryMasonHerpderp4177d ago

Thing is though it's not fair on the adults because we get are asses kicked by 10 year old's with quicker reflexes >_<

The_KELRaTH4177d ago (Edited 4177d ago )

Hell I'm thinking how even if I get into the top 3 how I've kicked all these teens n weens butt lol YESSSSS!!

HarryMasonHerpderp4177d ago (Edited 4177d ago )

Lol yeah I beat a bunch of kids once and they were all whining down their headsets, needless to say I felt pretty good about myself! That'll teach the little s**ts!

GraveLord4177d ago

So? The M-Rating only affects who can buy the game, not who can play it. It's up to the parents if they want to put parental controls on the console, most don't because there's no reason to.

@DSQD-Detox
That's impossible. It's illegal to sell an M-rated title to a 7-year old. He was lying.

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sashimi4177d ago (Edited 4177d ago )

Whats the point of even talking about this now...after so many call of duty games seriously? nothings ever going to change since i'm pretty sure a large portion of CoD sales are from parents buying for their underage kids. If they were to all of a sudden "disappear" you would see a huge drop in sales and Activision won't have any of it!

Bathyj4177d ago

Whipping your arse probably

SOULJER4177d ago

This one time I caught my nephew age 11 losing his rational mind on that game. He told someone online. That he just finish waxing his mother was and that it's the last time it will happen because she's putting on to much weight. CHECK THIS OUT! That was the only clean part of the conversation. Never the less he almost went into shock. When he realize that I was standing behind him.

Fishy Fingers4177d ago

Probably trying to have fun. A bit like I and probably most gamers did when they played games with an older certificate when they were young.

And I've only killed 3 people.

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These Call of Duty games are officially dead as servers go offline

Following the Wii U and 3DS servers being taken offline, Call of Duty Black Ops 2 and Ghosts are officially dead.

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Call of Duty players are playing this game for the last time before it's taken offline

Call of Duty players are jumping into Black Ops 2 for the final time before its Wii U servers go offline for good.

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Xbox backwards compatibility sends old Call of Duty games back into the Top Five | UK Monthly Charts

GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2 leap up due to summer sales

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shadowT254d ago

Xbox $70 billion bet paid out

fr0sty253d ago

Guess that's what happens when there's no good new games to play...

4Sh0w253d ago (Edited 253d ago )

Well regardless of exclusives, or whatever else there is to play on Xbox or ps, CoD has has still been the top selling game on ps platform since forever also.....so no surprise that the most popular game franchise on any console could easily have a revival due to servers coming back online...this is just credit to xbox backwards compatibility & thats good thing for Xbox gamers.

wiz7191253d ago

@Frosty orrrr maybe it’s a breath of fresh air to be able to go back to the peak of the series .. and it’s beem great lol

mkis007253d ago

It's going to take 10 years for xbox to generate that much profit...

Rhythmattic253d ago

Why worry when they have OS, Server and Background Data in their hands...
Gaming is just the small piece, at the top left in a few K piece jigsaw.

EasilyTheBest253d ago

If you buy a house with cash for 1 million dollars you still own the house. Microsoft don't need to make the money back.

Rhythmattic251d ago

But its not money back, its about how it goes missing.

jznrpg253d ago

Shooters is what Xbox people play most of the time and that’s about it by the numbers and sales of games.

shinoff2183254d ago

Atkeast older gamers nostalgia is good. Jeez.

Jin_Sakai254d ago

Mostly because the new CoD games are garbage. The old games were much better.

Rutaprkl253d ago

Agree 100%. Cod 4, WaW, Black ops 1 & 2, those were the days.

Rhythmattic253d ago

For MP, Unreal tournament , QIII Arena (loved the UT mod) FTW!

RaidenBlack253d ago

Unreal Tournament and Quake III were simply amazing ... CoD's and CoD-likes' rise killed the arena shooter popularity ...
Unreal Tournament 2004 is my favorite in the series.
Didn't enjoy Unreal Tournament III, Quake Champions that much.
Too bad Epic cancelled Unreal Tournament 2014 becoz of Fortnite

Rhythmattic252d ago (Edited 252d ago )

I got hooked on the QIII Urban Terror mod (and my work colleagues I introduced them to)... LAN Sessions at the closing of the doors at work, into the night , sinking beers and eating pizza..... Good times.

thesoftware730253d ago

Wow, good games never get old I guess.

CoD will always be a beast of a franchise, and how awesome is it that you can just boot it up or pop it into your Xbox and play, MS BC is really a neat feature.

CrimsonWing69253d ago

Shows you that backwards compatibility is a worthwhile feature.

1Victor253d ago

@crimson:” Shows you that backwards compatibility is a worthwhile feature.”
I agree it’s worthy at the start of the generation when there’s few new generation games but halfway through the generation it’s not a feature.
Now it’s good that this game is finding a renewed life for its fan but it shows a mayor flaw in new games release when a close decade old game is toppling the charts

CrimsonWing69252d ago

I don't know if I understand what you mean. It's a feature regardless of the time into the generation.

Let's take Armored Core 6 for example. Let's say I'm interested in checking out the previous Armored Core games, sure would be nice if I could play them on my current-gen console.

We're about 3 years into current-gen and old games are hitting in the top 5 for sales charts in the month.

I do get where you're coming from with older games possibly being better than the newer games, but the feature stays the feature. I can only speak for myself, but when there's a lull in game releases or nothing great is out, I like to go back to old titles. It's just nice to not have to have a bunch of consoles out to do so.

I think moving forward it'll be less and less of an issue as like with the PS5 you can access most all of the PS4 games, but I like going back to PS1 and PS2. Would be awesome to kind of make backwards compatibility a prioritized feature moving forward. Hell, Sony was the first to implement it.

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