Iran will be the next country to be invaded by the United States of Affluenzia, you just wait and see. The ESRB is merely the tip of the icebucket.

Errr, Iran are a rather civilized western country... not too surprising their joining the ESRB.

Just hating on Iran as im bored, you know how it is Wardrox

With Iran joining the ESRB, it looks like gaming is becoming more recognized in the country.

Considering that Iranian filmmakers make Hollywood look like YoutTube, I wouldn't be surprised if Iran started making games, and they were about 50x more artistic and intelligent than anything the major American and Japanese companies could even imagine.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_Iran

Wow, I didn't expect an intelligent response in here but auhsojsviart hit the nail... I'd love to see what the Iranian producers put out.

As for this classic, meaningless, cheap shot: "He said that the reason there are so many problems in the world is because world leaders turned away from religion ... now that's an ironic statement if ever I heard one."

We've had... what, 5 or 6 major international wars over the past 100 years or so? Exactly how many of those were wars of religion? It's so clearly a red herring in these questions and yet people still love to feel all superior about themselves and throw around statements like yours. You're as bad as the bible thumpers: Look at me! Look at me! My value system is clearly better because, well, because I say so!

Hell yeah ajay42, let's all praise Allah and blow up the jews!
I feel bad but I agree with Monocle man on this one.

Hey, it's Reverend Anthony! I kid, I kid! Please don't be mad, Mr. Burch. I couldn't help myself...honest!

"I expected more from you Jim."

I know, Iranic was a bad pun.

lol @ SuperD1984, but even more lol @ auhsojsivart, Iranian cinema better than Hollywood? I think you're overdue a trip to the opticians. As for Iranian games:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/882419.html

hmm... more artistic than anything the american and japanese could produce, really now?

and InB4 "Haaretz is a Jewish newspaper and is owned by the same zionists who did WTC for the the OIL"

whats going to interesting is what they do when the ESRB rating isn't enough. What about games with sex in? What about games with female characters (gasp) wear trousers and drive cars? Metroid will be alright since she keeps her head covered and never speaks (is Samus a Muslim?!!?) but Alyx in HL2? Shes surely screwed, I sense a fatwah coming...

Oh yeah and cjpkiller if you don't "give a shit about this website" why don't you fuck off and read something else? Tosser.

you know what i meant

I laughed at the picture.

I don't understand why ANY country would want to join the ESRB. Flawed piece of shit. Also, Iranic? ..............................................................................................................................................

Wasnt Israel who wanted to bomb that place?
Why are loosing time with games?

History lesson, it's Khomeini's fault. The Shah(king) Pahlavi wanted to modernize Persia during his rule, he renamed the nation to Iran, began inviting foreign diplomats and wanted to give the people more freedom while keeping them a step down from modern society as seen by the west. Khomeini being the cuntbag he is, decides that Iran should stick to being traditional and religious like it always have been. Other idiot Iranians follow his lead because they were too stupid to realize what the Shah was doing. Now, Iran is this, I hope your eyes popped or something when you died, Khomeini.

przn2przn <3 fadakar lulz

The picture caption more than makes up for "Iranic."

@TheDreadHawk:

"Atheist dictators killed millions of people over the past century and murdered hundreds of thousands in an effort to eradicate religion itself, because, you know, mass murder is the inevitable result when a community becomes too intolerant of outlandish dogmas and too fond of critical thinking."

I was in the middle of typing out a rather long response until I realized you were being sarcastic. At least I hope you were, because you are wrong in so many ways it makes me squirm in my chair.

@Fadakar:

We (America) created the problematic Iran of today when we sent in the CIA in 1954 to overthrow the democratically elected president. We then installed the Shah so BP could secure oil rights in the country. We just haven't learned (not sure why) that meddling gets us nowhere. It's always "just one more intervention will make it all better". Look how great that's been working out so far.

@Sup3rt3d

If you knew anything about Iran's nuclear program, you'd see that it's not really about blowing up Americans but rather for deterrence from being blown up by America's JV team, Israel. Also, pointing out one game used ideologically in that country is a bad argument considering that this game exists: http://www.americasarmy.com/

Secondly, I have opened my eyes. I run the International Film Series at my university and have seen films from all over the world. Iranian cinema is among the best and most respected. Check out Mohsen Makmalbaf and Abbas Kiarostami.

I followed the wiki link and read the article, didn't see anything that suggested it could make 'hollywood look like youtube" however hyperbole on the internet is common so no worries... the idea that their gaming industry could leapfrog the established ones is absolutely ludicrous though.

Also, Americas Army is about troop recruitment, not about excusing the pursuit of a nuclear weapon, something they shouldn't be doing in the first place. And since (A) Iran's president is a holocaust denier, and has called for the complete destruction of Israel (ie, more genocide) and (B) America hasn't used a nuclear device on anyone since WW2 - and would harldy need to if they wanted to take Iran - saying the bomb is just self defence is a pretty thin arguement.

Coming soon: Holocaust Denier! Travel the world spreading the REAL truth of the Holocaust: [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4527142.stm]Namely, it didn't happen![url] Beware of historians and evidence to the contrary, however!

Also coming soon: Wanna find out why there REALLY aren't any homosexuals in Iran? Then play Homo Basher, a 3D Beat-em-up where you--surprise!--beat homosexuals to DEATH!

Also Also Coming Soon: The Second Holocaust Even Though The First One Didn't Happen! In TSHETTFODH, you will use Iran's nuclear arsenal to wipe the nation of Israel off the map! Radioactive fun for the whole family!


...but seriously, it looks like some folks here hate the US so much that they're willing to overlook the kind of person Ahmadinejad really is, and the kind of government he runs. Too bad, really. Some people have to find out the hard way, I guess.

@Qraze: I hope you're right.

@RWarrior1CO: I haven't heard anyone say they were overlooking Ahmadinejad's insanity. Not admitting that the US created the Iran of today is ignoring a large part of the problem. If we don't try to understand why other countries hate us and want to destroy us, then surely we have no hope of ever resolving our differences peacefully. The current US attitude of "we are never wrong, and you will live your lives the way we want you to because we know what's good for you" is a sure way to keep the Al Queda training camps full of new recruits.

The ONLY way to win the war on terror is to keep people from wanting to become terrorists. There will never be a body count large enough to deter them because they *want* to die. They will keep coming. They will never give up. This is a not a war that will ever be won by dropping enough bombs and shooting enough people.

The terrorists know they can never beat us militarily. They know their only hope of winning is to keep us bogged down on their turf for so long that we will go bankrupt (which has essentially already happened) and be forced to withdraw because we can't afford to keep going (as happened with the soviets in Afghanistan). And by that time our economy will have slid down the hill so fast and so far, that our era of influence in the world will be over. And, we will not have the money or influence to meddle in their affairs anymore.

Anyway, that ended up being a longer rant than I anticipated.

is this where I get the new HAWP episode?

"Violent homophobia?" Wow, way to forget the other 5 billion people on earth that Iran is violently bigoted towards...