Everyone who lives in the United States knows about the Sandy Hook, Columbine, Aurora, and various other shootings that have happened in schools and public places over the last few decades and beyond. With each shooting, there is always speculation as to why it was done. In each one, at least recent ones since the inception of shooters and violent games, those speculations have fallen on a few topics. Mental health, drugs, abuse, and games always come up somehow. To most news outlets, parents, and people in general, violent video games seem to be an actual reason. Which to me is preposterous, can video games really have an effect on young adults and people who are older going on these rampages?
The magnificent Prey was once again abandoned as Microsoft disregarded Arkane Austin's achievements and crucified it just for Redfall.
well, not entirely ... the main Arkane studio i.e Arkane Lyon's still there ...
Its only that, the sequel will take more time now ... after Blade & Dishonored 3
Not even this Prey
Still longing for a sequel to the original Prey with Tommy
The studio didn't even want to call this Prey, it was just Bethesda being dicks to them for some reason.
Keep dreaming then as Prey and Dishonored 2 did not sell well enough to get sequels.
Hence we got Deathloop and Redfall instead.
Star Wars is coming to Helldivers 2, unofficially that is, as a new mod revamps in-game models and sends players to a galaxy far, far, away.
Even if Redfall were a good game, the closure of Hi-Fi Rush proves even that doesn't matter in the industry.
Yeah it would have mattered especially since their huge game that year wasn't all that it was cracked up to be remember redfail was almost heavily promoted and hyped not to the level of starfield but still more promoted than the average game.
There was still a decent marketing campaign behind the game I'm sure millions were spent advertising it on websites and I saw a few billboards and bus stop signs in real life
No it wouldn’t matter it wouldn’t bring in enough profit to offset their 100 billion dollar acquisition. It would maybe delay the inevitable by some months.
I would f*cking think so. Good games are what draws people to your platform. It’s why I adored the 360 era with Gears of War being one of the highlights for me. You make sh*t games and it just makes your platform that much worse and you start gobbling up studios I like and then killing them off it also makes me hate your platform as well… just sayin’
Unless the game would’ve been War Zone, or Fortnite level. No. Maybe even Hell divers 2 I doubt would’ve been enough.
No it would not have, the ABK deal was great for Microsoft but horrible for Xbox. Over 100 billion dollars in acquisitions. That money has to be made back. That ABK deal essentially destroyed Xbox as we know it.
finally common sense
It's fear mongering, and lets face it, America has become more and more socialist over the years. The same thing happened after 9/11. People always want something to blame, and kids really hit home.
Fear of kids dying from guns will have a lot of people agreeing to outlaw guns altogether. It furthers an agenda by a liberal president, who today bypassed our whole system put into place by this countries forefathers.
People have been killing other people long before video games, movies, music ect..
With all the mentally ill people in the world, I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often. Bottom line is that by making something illegal, doesn't mean it will stop happening. Last I checked murder was illegal.
Gaming is one of the biggest competitors to news and traditional entertainment media, on average people are watching about 25% less TV than they were 15 years ago. There's your explanation as to why the MSM always bring up gaming in connection with gun violence and why they're constantly criticising social media,online based pastimes are eating into the profits of traditional media.
Thank you to the author of this story. It is VERY well written and researched!The part of this story that sets it apart from others that have been posted on this subject on N4G is that it looks at the REAL issue,mental Illness.
Yes Adam Lanza had mental health issues,and they did find a xbox 360 in his house,as well as a laptop PC ( which was found to be FUBAR'ed by his own hands. I wonder if the FBI was able to get anything off of it...we may never know! )and was told that he didn't play his xbox often. Well I'm sure that they have looked into to his internet and Xbox live account to see what he was doing! Once again we may NEVER know!
The one person that knew what made this kid tic was his mother and shes DEAD thanks to HIM!Was this kid under the care of a shrink? I'm to the point that I think his mother was just as much mentally unstable as he was. She had to know this kid wasn't a brick short of a full load and to keep a bunch of weapons in the same house as a unstable kid!?!
What it boils down to is alot of the blame game is the medias fault! As I work with ESE kids with all forms of mental illness every day for the past 10 years and I can honestly say that there is not enough research being done to find the how,whats and whys of it. I guess our goverment would rather spend billions of dollars on a useless war!
In my 30 plus years of gaming,theres one thing I know forsure: Video games do NOT kill people,people play video games to keep from killing people!
Parents need to be responsable for what there kids play and the media they watch. They know there kids better than anyone, As so they should be aware of there kids mental state and be able to get them help and away from what is causing the issue.
None of what the VP or president have proposed will work! What happened in these incidents ,sadly can and will happen again. Weather its with a gun,or a baseball bat,or a butcher knife.
You guys are lucky. Here in South Africa it is very difficult to get a firearm license if you are a law abiding citizen. And that is only for handguns. Some people of course have rifles, for hunting, but that’s about it.
On the other hand our criminals are armed to the teeth with automatic weapons etc. so the law abiding citizens in this country is getting gunned down on a daily basis with no way to defend ourselves.
And on the rare occasion that someone can defend themselves they do so, but what happens then? We get locked up for 15 or 20 years because we shot the person trying to murder us and our families.
Go figure that.