Post by Enter Nations on Mar 12, 2018 10:42:42 GMT
Includes scenes from games like 'Call of Duty', 'Fallout 4' and 'Wolfenstein: The New Order'.
Video games have once again found themselves in the crosshairs of the US government, this time as part of President Donald Trump's campaign to better understand how and why school massacres, like last month's in Florida, continue to occur.
Trump held a meeting at the White House on Thursday, which included game executives such as Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick and Robert Altman, president of parent company Bethesda ZeniMax, as well as several video game critics, such as Melissa Henson of Parents Television Council. At the beginning of the meeting, the following video was played.
The video includes scenes from Wolfenstein: The New Order , several scenes from Call of Duty: Black Ops and Modern Warfare 2 , Fallout 4 , Sniper Elite 4 , The Evil Within and Dead by Daylight . These scenes depict bloody violence, with characters from all the games horribly wounded and stabbed.
Although much of this is very common for video games (and many Hollywood blockbusters), there was also the infamous No Russian mission of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 , in which the player massacres many people at an airport. "More and more people are saying that the level of violence in video games is really shaping the thoughts of young people," Trump said after the shooting in Florida.
For decades, activists and politicians have pointed to the violence represented in video games, music and movies after tragedies, such as the shooting in Parkland, Florida. In 2013, former President Barack Obama encouraged research into the effects of violent video games on children.
Still, the video game industry says there is no evidence to link games with violent behavior. "Video games are not the problem," said the Entertainment Software Association (ESA).
Video games have once again found themselves in the crosshairs of the US government, this time as part of President Donald Trump's campaign to better understand how and why school massacres, like last month's in Florida, continue to occur.
Trump held a meeting at the White House on Thursday, which included game executives such as Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick and Robert Altman, president of parent company Bethesda ZeniMax, as well as several video game critics, such as Melissa Henson of Parents Television Council. At the beginning of the meeting, the following video was played.
The video includes scenes from Wolfenstein: The New Order , several scenes from Call of Duty: Black Ops and Modern Warfare 2 , Fallout 4 , Sniper Elite 4 , The Evil Within and Dead by Daylight . These scenes depict bloody violence, with characters from all the games horribly wounded and stabbed.
Although much of this is very common for video games (and many Hollywood blockbusters), there was also the infamous No Russian mission of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 , in which the player massacres many people at an airport. "More and more people are saying that the level of violence in video games is really shaping the thoughts of young people," Trump said after the shooting in Florida.
For decades, activists and politicians have pointed to the violence represented in video games, music and movies after tragedies, such as the shooting in Parkland, Florida. In 2013, former President Barack Obama encouraged research into the effects of violent video games on children.
Still, the video game industry says there is no evidence to link games with violent behavior. "Video games are not the problem," said the Entertainment Software Association (ESA).
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