Posts Tagged ‘government’
Gamers band together to protest German ban on videogames
It’s no surprise that Germany’s recent banning of games such as World of Warcraft and Counterstrike would cause an uproar in the gaming community — It seems that a group of German gamers have banded together to form a formal protest against the government’s recent decision.
Said group formed a march 400 strong who paraded through Karlsurhe to show their hatred towards the government’s “war on videogames”. But that’s not all, Destructoid reports that 3 more protests are planned to happen simultaneously on July 25th.
Furthermore, there is an online petition that has formed that hopes to reach 5,000 signatures because if it does, officials are required by law to rethink their banning of such games. Will this be enough? Let’s hope so because I mean honestly, how can you ban Counterstrike?
Want to help out? The online petition is located here.
Michigan Grandfather Says Videogames Cause Deformities
There are dozens of arguments that have been made by the anti video game camp. Some point nervous fingers at any tenuous link between video games and real world tragedies, others blame them for obesity or the short attention spans of current youth. A Michigan grandfather is accusing video game controllers of seriously warping the hands of children due to their soft bones being unable to handle the ’strong repeating forces’ inflicted upon a child’s hands while gaming.
He says that children under eight shouldn’t be allowed to play video games and that children under five shouldn’t be allowed to use crayons. As you might expect, he hasn’t gotten much support for his movement yet, possibly because in a display of incredibly paranoid thinking he accuses the government of being persuaded by the video games industry to drop a bill designating money for the study of children’s health, including the effects of video gaming.
Last I had checked the US economy was suffering and every government body was operating with lower budgets and while I’m sure billions of dollars are still being devoted to research, children’s hands likely isn’t high on the list of priorities. If there’s really an issue with children playing too many video games and injuring themselves, we should get them back out doing safe hobbies like climbing trees and playing football. Nobody ever got hurt doing that.
Chinese prohibits World of Warcraft expansion
It seems taht the Chinese government is at it again, and this time completely rejected Blizzard’s attempt to release World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King in the area. But why?
Well JLM Pacific Epoch says that the rejection was due to the game including city raids, and skeleton characters.
City raids and skeleton characters, huh? Aren’t those 2 of the things that made World of Warcraf fun? Probably not, but it seems that the Chinese government is afraid people will use WoW to concoct plans to overthrow the government, or something like that.