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Violence EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag BioShock 2 has 'intense violence' and 'f*cking sodomites' 29 That's what we like to hear! The ESRB has rated BioShock 2, and like so many other ESRB ratings, it has made the game sound positively splendid. Summarizing the game's "intense acts of violence,"... Captain Obvious: GTA V being developed 32 In a recent interview with The Times of Lodon Dan Houser, one of the big wigs at Rockstar, has been caught talking about GTA V, which we all knew was coming out, but it's always good to know wher... Kidnapped teen forced to buy a PS3 at gunpoint 48 This is one of those real "WTF" stories. An eighteen-year-old is currently facing charges of kidnap and robbery after capturing a teenager and forcing him to buy a PlayStation 3. Kyle Yarkosky wa... Parappa creator wants less violence in games 24 Kick and punch may be all in the mind, but Parappa the Rapper creator Masaya Matsuura doesn't want so much of it in videogames. Speaking with Joystiq, the man responsible for Major Minor's Majest... AO-rated Manhunt 2 coming to PC next week 19 Remember Manhunt 2? Of course you do, but not because it was a good game (because it definitely wasn't), or because it did anything revolutionary. Nope, we all remember Manhunt 2 because of the c... Daily Mail implicates videogames in schizophrenic attack 40 Oh Daily Mail, where would we be without you? Probably in a much better world. The Daily Fail's latest mess is a story revolving around James Callaghan, a schizophrenic teenager who attacked a 65... Pediatricians say videogames as bad as smoking 73 Sensationalist headline is GO! While the headline up there is true I have actually twisted the words around a bit to make it seem even more shocking and appalling so as to grab your attention. Ho... German group's 'game burning' protest was a huge failure 64 Last week, we told you about the German group attempting a modern-day book burning by having people bring in their violent videogames and toss them into the garbage. The Action Alliance believes ... Never enough: The MP5 sub-machine gun Wii controller 22 Yup, this is a thing that is happening. Pocket-Lint went to a trade show in Hong Kong where they spotted this 1:1 scale Heckler & Koch MP5 sub-machine gun. Unlike all of the other plastic gun... 15-year-old set on fire over $40 videogame debt 101 A group of kids are currently in detention for setting one of their peers on fire over a $40 videogame debt. Micheal Brewer was set alight at an apartment complex in Deerfield Beach, Florida, whe... Starcraft fan Zerg rushes teenage girl with kitchen knife 42 I'm sure we've all been in a situation where the power has gone or the Internet's shut down right when we've been in the middle of a hot gaming session. What do you do in those situations? Throw ... Dante's Inferno dev making Jack the Ripper game 32 Not content to murder literature with Dante's Inferno, EA's Visceral Studios will soon be raping history with a game based on London's notorious Jack the Ripper. At least, that's what the LA Time... Shank impressions to live by: kill or be killed 14 If you didn't listen to Podtoid 114, you might've never heard of Klei Entertainment's Shank. Since it doesn't have a publisher or a platform (although I did demo it with an Xbox 360 controller) a... New No More Heroes 2 trailers are over 24 hours old 18 What do you do when you're a professional blogger JOURNALIST and you come across something that you think is really cool, but you know that it's already days old? Do you ignore it, preventing the... Aliens vs. Predator will have slit throats, gouged heads 21 We've all seen the execution animations for the Predator in AvP. Decapitations and Xenomorph-tongue ripping are the order of the day and it all looks rather fabulous. While chatting with Rebellio... Behold, the coming of a giant: Zombie Panic in Wonderland 43 There are some videogames that people would rather talk about than play. For instance, folks have spent more than a year prattling on about how much they "appreciate the significance" o... Buddhist monk recommends games for treating aggression 42 Videogames often get criticized by out-of-touch old cranks for causing violence and encouraging aggressive behavior, so it's very interesting indeed to see that one man, who could rightly be rega... Games Time Forgot: Zombie Revenge 46 As you well ought to know, this week marks the ten year anniversary of the Dreamcast, Sega's last (and some say best) videogame console. We'll be celebrating the little underdog's birthday all we... Study: Violent videogame ads the most memorable 36 Another day, another study about violence in videogames. The latest research comes courtesy of the University of Luxemburg, where it has been decided by Professor Obvious that violent videogame c... Preview: Fairytale Fights 8 The last time I saw Fairytale Fights, I was surrounded by business types in a small room at E3, where I was the only member of the press. Weird to say the least, I was at least able to catch an e... Game Debate to the Death! Gravity gun VS Portal gun 107 Last week was a fighting genre fight to the death. The clash of old versus new brought out all sorts of supporters and critics. The thought process of many of the comments was logical, balanced, ... Half-Life with real guns should not be tried at home 23 The guys (and one attractive girl) at Waterloo Labs like showing people how to do cool science-based projects on the cheap. For instance, if you have a large wall you can shoot, something to shoo... Game critic wants ten-day ban on videogames for schoolkids 43 Lt. Col. Dave Grossman is a name that pops up in anti-videogame circles now and then. He's an author and former military man who believes that children can train themselves to become snipers by p... Punk kid hits people with car doors, Grand Theft Auto blamed 32 You know the drill by now. Some filthy little sh*thead decides to be antisocial and delinquent, then tries to dodge accountability by blaming videogames, something he knows will deflect the blame... Once again Germany needs the worlds help 31 If you've been following my intrepid coverage of the situation in Germany (I've appointed myself Destructoid's German correspondent on weekends) then you know that the German government is attemp... BioWare: we don't need violence to attract gamers anymore 33 Mmm, delicious blood. Who can deny the thrill of watching to fly while playing a videogame? I can't, especially on those stressful days when it just feels good to beat the crap out of some virtua... Why doesn't Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 have as much blood n' guts? 47 To the anguish of splatter fans, it has been noted in the past that Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2's gore has been considerably toned down when compared to the original Xbox 360 release of Ninja Gaiden 2. ... Game Debate to the Death! Prototype VS inFamous 169 Last week's debate was the last odd game debate in our almost year long journey! It also ended with one of the best "odd debate" matchups of the entire series, with a legendary multipla... No More Heroes 2 details emerge, courtesy of Nintendo Power 52 Whether or not you think Suda51 makes good games, it is an undeniable fact that the guys makes interesting games. That's enough for me to justify posting some new details about the sequel last ye... Activists cry about 'predatory' game industry 57 Because the world needs another overly conservative activist group moaning about videogames and using harmful vernacular because they don't know what they're talking about! The latest gang of pus... Hands-on with Pokemon Scramble and the death of a friendship 17 Pokemon Scramble is a 4-player RTS/beat 'em up that just hit Japanese WiiWare. Though many are sure to hate it because 1) it's a Pokemon game and 2) it's got low-poly character models in the styl... Germany wants to stop the Austrian internet 26 I'm not sure what Germany is thinking, messing with a country that spawned a man who can take down a Predator, a Terminator and be twin brothers with Danny DeVito, but Germany doesn't make sense ... How Prototype is blatantly better than inFAMOUS 343 Two games have recently been released that bear several striking similarities. Both of these games are open-world sandbox titles featuring superpowered antiheroes who begin to realize a host of a... Boy accidentally shoots brother dead over videogame fight 56 I'm sure we've all wanted to shoot our brothers at some point, but 11-year-old  De-Andre Finley went that extra mile, accidentally killing his 9-year-old sibling after a videogame row ended ... E3 09: A Velvet Retribution 57 Those of you read my big E3 to-do list have been asking whether or not I have been able to fulfill the objectives I set for myself. I failed to conquer Nicole Wiebe. I failed to become the crowne... E3 09: Dexter for iPhone lets you kill people, but it's ok 36 One of the most exciting games I’ve had a chance to see this E3 was a behind closed doors showing of Dexter for the iPhone. Nick Chester actually got a peek at the game back at GDC, and if ... Pre-E3 09: IGN reveals High Voltage's Gladiator A.D. 13 A few weeks back, Jim showed you a fuzzy, "decoded" piece of production art for an as-of-then unannounced Wii game. Well, the game is unannounced no more. It's called Gladiator A.D., an... Advance Wars killer found guilty 35 You might not remember it, but quite a while ago we ran a story where Advance Wars had somehow been linked to a murder. 20-year-old Mathew Pyke was found stabbed to death last year, and it had be... British baroness thinks videogames destroy lives 33 It's about that time of the week where we have an ill-informed opinion on the "dangers" of videogames from someone who is completely out-of-touch with reality. Enter Liberal Democrat Ba... Free crap knife for The Saboteur with pre-order 15 Up until Velvet Assassin was released and we started hearing about how the game essentially lacked the fun factor completely, I kept getting it confused with The Saboteur for whatever reason. But... Counter-Strike argument leads to murder of teen 30 A number of deaths have been pinned on Counter-Strike over the years, but never has the venerable online shooter ever been directly involved. That is, until a certain argument in a Novosibirsk In... EA Redwood Shores is now Visceral Games 8 EA Redwood Shores Studio has been renamed to Visceral Games. Thank God for that. EARS was a horrible nickname for the company. The name change reflects the studio's "culture, identity and fo... Toribash still coming to WiiWare, still looks totally weird 20 Toribash isn't like other videogames.It's hard to even say what genre it's a part of. As far as gameplay goes, all you can do is alter the angle and position of the body parts of a Vectorman-look... ESRB rates Bayonetta: Torture attacks and jiggling breasts 32 Praise be to the Entertainment Software Ratings Board, otherwise known as "the eternal leaky faucet of videogame news." The ESRB has today rated Sega's hardcore action game Bayonetta, a... Wolverine's violence might mislead moviegoers 14 As you may have read from our preview, I had the opportunity to check out X-Men Origins: Wolverine last week, and also got chatting to Raven Software project lead Dan Vondrak. We had an interesti... Could Close Range be the funniest faux FPS ever? 29 It's highly possible that it is the funniest faux FPS ever, but I've been known to get worked up over incredibly stupid things before. Then again, haven't we all? The Onion has a first-hand repor... Father kills partner because she played too much PS3 43 The newspapers love to run stories about someone who committed murder "because" they played too many videogames. How ironic then, that passive aggressive newspaper The Telegraph is runn... Videogame characters I'd kill and how I'd kill them 124 Videogame history is littered with rage and frustration. While we all love and cherish this noble hobby we call gaming, it has still been the source of thrown controllers, broken furniture and en... Jesse Jackson dismisses the 'games cause violence' debate 18 Can't say I agree with the Rev. Jesse Jackson on a whole lot of things, but he's making sense when he talks about the media and its apparent influence on crime. While he does not rule out a link ... God of War III is too violent for the Internet, Sony says 48 The Internet is home to videos where a man shatters a mason jar inside his own rectum, and yet Sony has the nerve to tell us that God of War III is too extreme for the Internet. Unless Kratos def... EVERY violent rampage ever is linked to videogames now! 52 I really don't want to take the easy route and make Nazi comparisons to modern day German officials, but their desire to ban certain forms of media really make Godwin's Law difficult to resist. T... Times Online: German school shooter copied Far Cry 2 49 The Times Online, following the great news media tradition of linking violent acts to videogames, has noted that German school shooter Tim Kretschmer was a gamer, making sure to note "sinist... Europe cracking down on violent games after German shootings 79 The 17-year-old German kid and his shooting rampage have kicked off an anti-videogames government movement in Europe. This school shooting that killed 16 has some tying the incident to videogames... School shooting in Germany linked to videogames 43 A school shooting that took place in Germany yesterday is already being linked to videogames, with politicians in the typically game-unfriendly country pointing fingers at violent media exposure.... Shocker: Kids love violent videogames, want M-rated titles 13 A rather redundant study has shown that young people love adult-oriented videogames, with M-rated titles proving popular among filthy youths. Apparently, we needed research to conclude that peopl... Silly study: Violent games make you 'comfortably numb' to the pain of others 42 It never ceases to amaze me just how far some "researchers" will go to "prove" that videogames are harmful. From blowing airhorns to electric shock tests, some truly wacky and... Violent media = good for children? One writer thinks so 17 While the moral scaremongers would have you believe that isolating children from any and all violent media is the only way to adjust them to our perfect and violence-free society, one writer has ... New Prototype video discusses comic book, has explosions 3 We have our hands on a new video for Radical Entertainment's violent sandbox conspiracy adventure Prototype. In it, we get to hear a bunch of people working on the comic book tie-in give the ga... Man chokes girlfriend with Wii remote after stealing cookies 42 The Wii is the console that is bringing families together across America. Such irony then, that it also doubles as an effective strangulation tool for moronic boyfriends. Daniel Alvarez of Austin... Portland killer leaves meticulous PS3 eBay instructions 27 Erik Salvador Ayala is a name that should be familiar with many of you by now. 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