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more about #racism tonicmole: Yeah, maybe we should only make games about white people. It used to be racist to NOT have anyone but white people now it's racist to have anyone no... more » doughboyx: Everything is racist nowadays. Obviously nobody is any different, and everybody is perfectly equal in every way. I wouldn't want to be racist. more » sirmarcelot: ARG AGAIN??? USING A BLACK PERSON = RACISM, USING A GIRL = SEXISM. F*** THIS S***. hypocritical crap. the representation of non-majority groups that i... more » ArcticLotus: Halfway through Resident Evil 5, I had a discussion about this very topic with my friends. Half of us are in marketing, the other half in music, tea... more » Xtrit: ...........do colors and places even fucking matter i want a great game with all kinds of people,i hope they don't turn this into a R5 kind of discuss... more » nickwhesker: Anything nowadays is considered racist. Left 4 Dead 2 is not racist, and i think that the only games that should be considered racist are the ones tha... more » Seiven: I agree with Destructoid's comment...I am SICK AND FRAKKING TIRED OF ALL THE RACISM CLAIMS!!! look, if we would quit trying to find racism everywhere... more » iblackrangeri: i think its utterly ridiculous that games like left for dead and such are always targeted with the "racist" or "offensive" card when games like 50 cen... more » skarecrow13: The whole race in games thing needs to stop. Games are a story telling medium, and if a developer is questioned every time they make a story telling o... more » Kary Brown: Katrina didn't mess up new orleans. Crappy levees that should have been fixed ages ago messed up new orleans. Katrina's eye wall passed through Missis... more » Pombar: Not to mention this is a fictional world timeline - it could be 2002, it could be 2030. Katrina is utterly irrelevant here. New Orleans is still suffe... more » bowen13: Honestly, I find the Special Infected more offensive than the black zombies (and I don't find the black zombies offensive at all). The Spitter and Cha... more » Andrew Wyatt: How come we never hear about black people complaining about too many white characters in games? "I'm tired of shooting white people." Uh-huh. And ever... more » AldoraShanahan: The problem with the GameHacks blog article, was that the writer felt that Hurricane Katrina was a black only event, that Katrina itself was racist. ... more » Bardock44: I'd just like to say, being from and still living in New Orleans, that both my friends and I think it is great that our city is going to be featured i... more » IvanDashSmith: I like how on (relatively) the same day we see an article about not enough racial diversity in games, and we get a game with a lot of different races ... more » benzomatic: There's certainly no reason to accuse Valve of racism (not yet, anyway. Absolutely no one has played Left 4 Dead 2 yet so let's not jump to conclusion... more » CommentatorHatman: Honestly, I find the public outcry against unsavory public outcries to be more offensive than the original alleged offense for various reasons that I ... more » H0LYHANDGRENADE: Someone seeing the setting of New Orleans being racist is obviously racist themself for assuming "New Orleans is for black people..." Hypocrite. more » Givafuk: being a black man in america this is all i have to say to those that protest games being supposedly racist: "give it a rest already please. thank you.... more » -
#racism
Valve Writer Hits Back at 'Racism' Editorial
Last week, a Houston Chronicle writer referenced Left 4 Dead 2's setting choice - New Orleans - in an opinion piece lamenting the perceived insensitivity of several games. Valve has responded. More » -
#callofjuarez
Houston Chronicle: Video Game Racism "The New Norm"?
No, not that guy. Norm, as in, status quo. As in, we've masticated the shooting-black-people argument in Resident Evil 5, now let's pile on Call of Juarez and an unreleased game for good measure. More » -
#racism
New York Times on RE5: The Truth About African Zombies
The New York Times' resident game writer Seth Schiesel kicks off his review of Resident Evil 5 with a lengthy discourse on the racism controversy, invoking the one truism about zombies everyone keeps forgetting. More » -
#racism
An Informed Expert Speaks Out On RE5 Racism (UPDATE)
VideoGamer.com played through the first three levels of Capcom's latest with one of the UK's top experts on racism to get the final word - is Resident Evil 5 racist? More » -
