• more about #missilecommand
    senselocke: Where is the love for The Darkness? Honestly, it's like no one played it for more than five minutes. Spoilers follow, so be warned Someone below men... more »
    omgwtflolbbqbye: I remember being really annoyed with The Punisher game. They actually dock points from you if you kill the suspect after you interrogate/torture them... more »
    abort_user: i dont mind torture in video games. i do mind when its used as military propaganda. yes there are games out there thatll try to teach you torture is g... more »
    fuchikoma: If you inflict fear and pain on a captive, you are torturing them. (I guess if they're free it's just fighting?) I don't care if you're just throwing ... more »
    mayfaire: Interesting article. I don't think I've played a game where I had to torture someone for information and the like (not that I recall, anyway), but wha... more »
    RicoTheSaboteur: Not torture per say, but when testing Legacy of Kain I stopped playing very early in the game because the mechanism to regain health is through killin... more »
    dd528: A fair few of the commenters below talk about how uncomfortable they felt when being forced to resort to torture tactics in a game. I think that that... more »
    ClockOut: The main problem I see is that in video games, like 24, torture is shown to work. And not just work, but work immediatly. The victims arre always guil... more »
    Tenacious_Z: The problem with torture, and indeed any extreme act, whether it be physical violence or hurtful language, in entertainment media is that it is very i... more »
    karbonD: ummm...I don't think tasing someone is really torture. It might hurt temporarily (or in extreme cases kill) but if I were doing something along the li... more »
    wonderboy13: Oh no! Don't torture the fake, made up people who are not real whatsoever! Give me a break, don't you guys have actual gaming news to post? What's nex... more »
    curly haired boy: i think context is key. torture is, unequivocally, a Bad Thing. it's such a bad thing that it's usually only used during times of extreme duress, wher... more »
    battlescarSS: Silent Hill: Homecoming had that awesome torture scene. more »
    lionkitten: I never played COD:World at War because I felt the initial trailer was violence and torture porn - it somehow crossed a line for me in its realism ac... more »
    thewafflecult: "Besides, they were probably bad people who deserved it anyway." Argh! This logic! It hurts my brain! Sometimes people need to sit back and just acc... more »
    Myxomatosis: The torture scene in metal gear solid 3 was much more graphic than in 1 or 2. Metal gear is interesting in that it points out from time to time that w... more »
    Liptons: Jack Bauer did though! more »
    Gargus: Its a fucking video game. So games with tons of gore, dismemberments, killing innocent people, sex, nudity, bad language, toilet humor, genocide, dem... more »
    Zelieder: All this naughty-talk about torture reminds me a lot of when my parents would change the news when they reported about bad things in the Iraq war back... more »
    kmattson: I'm in favor of torture in video games so long as it's realistically presented as being essentially useless for gathering information or, for that mat... more »
  • #editorial

    Torture In Video Games

    At PAX, I had the good fortune to catch Bethesda's Brink demo. While there was a lot of cool stuff in the game worth blogging about, what stuck with me was the use of torture in the game. More »
  • #screengrab

    Missile Command Up Skirt

    As seen on Flickr. [Pic]
  • #atari

    Atari Classics Land On iPhone

    Ah, so this is why Atari went and attacked the developers of iPhone Breakout clones. Nothing sucks more than having to compete against better versions of your own product. Up now on the Apps Store are brand new versions of Atari classics Super Breakout and Missile Command, both redone with an added Xbox Live Arcade-style glossy finish. The missile command, seen above, looks particularly nice. Super Breakout, on the other hand, looks like Super Breakout, which basically amounts to all the cool clone versions Atari put a stop to without all the nifty bits that made them cool. Both games support two players as well as streaming your own music while you play. More »
  • #kingofkong

    An Awesome Interview With Missile Command's Mr. Awesome

  • #retrogaming

    Retro Sabotage's 20th Edition: Missile Command

    Our disturbed friends at Retro Sabotage are all suspender-popping about their 20th sabotage since the site launched shortly before New Year's Eve. Remember, these are flash games that play normally (or close to it) before something goes horribly, comically wrong and beyond your control. More »
  • #livearcadewednesday

    Missile Command Targets Xbox Live