3 ms·
The important news here is that video games are surpassing other forms of entertainment. It is evidence of the disconnect between the media, politics and actual
by revelation 13y ago
The important news here is that video games are surpassing other forms of entertainment. It is evidence of the disconnect between the media, politics and actual society: every other month you get discussions about video games causing violence and calls for legal restrictions. Compare this to movies, where you can produce the most violent splatter horror trash and nobody will bat an eye.
Meanwhile, people are validating games as the work of art they are with hard dollars.
- Tloewald 13y agoSince when did hard dollars validate works of art? People are buying games -- art will take care of itself.
- grogenaut 13y ago"The important news here is that video games are surpassing other forms of entertainment." The games segment has been larger than Movies for quite a while.
- notdrunkatall 13y agoI haven't had cable in nearly a decade now. Does the media still use that old canard?
- pintglass 13y agoNot that I've seen. They went from the "the Columbine kids played Doom which is why they killed those people" more recently to "Guns kill people; We must get rid of guns", but even that is no longer in the news. The latest in the news is that conservatives want to shutdown the government and make poor people die without health care. But nothing about games. If they want bad publicity to help sell it, they'll need to have something like beastiality with a donkey hidden deep in the game somewhere.