• more about #blamegame
    TheHeartless: The worst part of all these insane claims that come up every few months, for me, is not that they are making them, but that they are making them with ... more »
    svetlana: But I feel like by the time we hit your last sentence we have arrived at exactly the sort of embittered no-man's-land from which no few people view th... more »
    RyuuzakiBjorn: "Cop Killing History" Obviously John Woo's Strangehold... more »
    deanbmmv: It's some of the double standards that get me though. PETA has a go at COD because you kill attack dog's in what is a simulation of a historical event... more »
    NeVeRMoRe666: Like you said Owen, sometimes people just want meaning in the world. No one wants to believe that random occurances could just happen. No one wants to... more »
    cowboyshootist: Welcome to my world. As an NRA member I can't tell you how many news stories I see in which guns are tied in some manner to bad people. I saw a news s... more »
    Bialia: "Maybe he had interjected himself into a game in his mind" /FACEPALM more »
    wanion: I like what David Cross said, "What were the video games Hitler gave to the Germans?" more »
    i_pooped_on_: The issue is not violence in video games. The issue is the popularization as violence as an acceptable means of proving masculinity. Why don't any of ... more »
    ShaggE: Cracking Eggs Of Wisdom: The more of this "blame the games" shit I see, the more it feels like a personal accusation towards the gaming community, like we're the bad guys for ... more »
    Komrade Kayce: Yknow, one would figure movies like the Matrix, which featured trenchcoat clad 'goths' storming a building by killing all the security guards at the e... more »
    homernoy: Well, good thing they didn't find any books. I am getting tired of books getting blamed for violence in our society. more »
    Pombar: I wonder what society's next scapegoat will be. I want to say MMA. more »
    Raspberyl's Lover: When ever the police find nothing but video games in a situation like this they always blame video games - regardless of which one it is.Let's say I'm... more »
    bfwings55: I can't wait for the current generation of news people to die out. Maybe the next one will have some sense. more »
    stranger: The general "meh" directed at the franchise couldn't have anything to do with the fact that F.E.A.R. remains one of the most generic FPS' on the marke... more »
    QualityJeverage: I don't think ports or expansions killed F.E.A.R. I think F.E.A.R killed F.E.A.R. Endlessly repetitive levels (Warehouse, Office, Warehouse, Office, W... more »
    I_Hate_This_Place: The people who made Condemned and Condemned 2 can do no wrong in my book. Monolith is top notch IMO. more »
    Blue Ninja: Yeah, thank god the expansion packs aren't canon. They're not bad, but nowhere near what the orginal accomplished. They also managed to tell just abou... more »
    Roufuss: F.E.A.R was definitely awesome, a real standout of its time in the FPS genre. The expansions were wretched. Horrible story, horrible additions, it al... more »
  • #blamegame

    When There's Nothing to Blame, There's Always Games

    Last October, Stefan Martin-Urban shot up a suburban cul-de-sac, killing two people and then himself. Investigators found no drugs, no journals explaining his motives. But they did find video games, and so that's the answer. More »
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    Monolith Guy: Expansions, Ports Sunk F.E.A.R.

    Dave Matthews (not this guy), the primary art lead for F.E.A.R. 2, has an idea what tanked the franchise: expansions and console ports — ones not made by Monolith.
  • #dissectingjackslies

    Dissecting Jack's Lies: NIU Shooting