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An old friend, who happens to be the culture reporter at the Baltimore Sun, just wrote up a quick review of Smartbomb: The Quest for Art. The article includes an interview with authors Heather Chaplin and Aaron Ruby and includes some interesting insight into why they wrote the book. Better still it quickly touches on the topic of violence and video games and really hits the nail on the head.
Some of the games are also becoming horrifyingly violent, with graphic depictions of shootings and maimings. One game designer laments in Smartbomb that all games are becoming MMMFs - "murder made more fun."But Chaplin says, "It's a problem that goes far beyond video games. It's really a part of our culture. There's a lot of really lousy media that have pumped out values I don't ascribe to. The video games can be hyper-violent, but it's a feedback loop: The games are reacting to the culture, and the culture is reacting to the games."
Couple's book a play-by-play of the video game culture [Baltimore Sun]
