Fox will most likely acknowledge the fiasco behind that news segment and them being asked to apologize, but I'm probably sure Bill O'Riley or whoever will be out for blood and just try to make the game industry seem like total immature/nerd/douche bags on air.

@Sadistic

I agree with them trying to make the gaming community/industry seem like immature nerds. It really is quite sad, but a common tactic. When most people find themselves up against a group of individuals, they pick out the ones that portray a really negative image (like the gamers that can't spell and just rant off things like "omg u r leik such a gay looser!! my gamez r awesome KEKE") as opposed to having an intelligent debate with someone on their level or higher.

Hell no. It's not the kind of thing they would apologize for.

@GOBLIN

I definitely see where you're coming from on this one. I've been gaming since I was around 5 years old, and even though I'm 20 now it still pisses me off when people try to blame video games for the problems that occur in some kids today.

In my opinion, there isn't a specific age at which children should be allowed to play certain games. To me, it all comes down to maturity. "Can they handle it?" Your parents made the call on letting you get the game, and from your comment (even though you're having a bad day) I wouldn't have been able to label you as a 15 year old without you telling me.

I hope your day gets better!

I personally get offended for similar reasons as Gamegoblin.
I've been playing M rated games since I was 8 for crying out loud! And I'm not anywhere near as fucked up as all these people claim I am.

And no, they won't apologize. They are douchebags, and douchebags never apologize.

Of course, me saying that I am not fucked up doesn't carry much weight when I prance around the internets with the username aborto thefetus.

Labeling is also where I'm coming from. Shit, underage gamers were first labeled as geeky and now being labeled as murderers by the mainstream. It's all because people still see games as toys rather than a form of electronic entertainment. Cartoons were the same way. Now there are tons of adult cartoons because sometimes it's funner to see things animated than watching real actors.

Games to an extent translate the same philosophy as adult cartoons. They can be enjoyed by adults and children alike. And as long as guidelines are in place there shouldn't be a fucking problem here. A mom won't let her kid watch adult swim (if she was a fucking responsible parent and she believed she didn't want her kid to be subjected to that kind of show) and I doubt a parent is going to watch anything on 4kids TV.

There needs to be balance and unfortunately there is none when jackasses like FOX are involved.

A careless letter maybe, even after they've upset millions of video game players, they won't make anything serious.

Some corrections:

"They can be enjoyed by adults and children alike..."

Referring to cartoons in general, not adult cartoons, even though some break barriers between the two (like Mario, no?)

"...kid to be subjected to that kind of show"

*those kind of shows

kk, I'll shut up now.

this kind of abuse won't stop until gamers get organized. We will continue to be looked down on and have our freedom of speech slowly weathered away by corrupt politicians and the ignorant masses until its gone.

It would take some hackers on steroids to get fox to apologize

No. They wont apologize.

It comes down to people thinking video games are toys. That they are mindless amusements, marketed to children for time wasting entertainment. What they don't know is the amount of depth in a game like Mass Effect, or the work that went in to creating Cryengine 2, or the amount of amazing architectural design in Bioshock. They won't know until games become mainstream and there is more of a demand for those types of games.

Video games are becoming more popular, thanks to the new console generation, and more so thanks to Nintendo and their Wii. It's introduced the basics of gaming in to almost every household across the world, its shown that gaming can be fun and that it can bring us closer together, even more so parents with their kids.

Soon people will see that games are just toys anymore, theres a growing amount of games making a more mass-market approach these days and although you might not agree with it, it's helping the game industry to establish itself in a world that knows nothing about it. When video games get to the level where everyone can realize that they are a digitally interactive form on entertainment, and not a simple puzzle game for prepubescents, then we will start to see these disgusting insects crawling back under there rocks with their unfounded arguments that go nowhere.