The Hot New Trend in Gaming

are you really ordering "freedom fries" in the US?

(see wideload press release)

I dont get it.. whats wrong with cannibalism??

What's with the paradigm that this is a bad thing?

Cheers to Wideload for that wonderful community response on the news media bullshit. I'm going out this afternoon and picking up your game, regardless of what the shack or any other gaming site thinks about it.

The news media is always full of shit one way or another. You know what I would LOVE to see? A BIG GAMING site (ign, gamespot, gamespy, shack) just make shit up about the movie industry, or books, telling people to stay away from them, and not let thier kids watch/read it.

"This just in, Mr. Jones and Mrs. Smith, is an extremely violent movie, full of sexual innuendo and gunplay which should not be viewed by your beloved family members for fear of blowing up the house this coming holiday season!!! Do NOT put this DVD under the christmas tree this year."

Seriously, WTF?

It's about time media sources which blindly spit out this kind of utter bullshit started getting either shut down or forced to label their products "MADE UP SHIT -- NOT THE NEWS". They have a duty and a responsibility to actually investigate what they're writing about and to intelligently inform the public.

It's not just videogames, it's pretty much everything. Part of it is laziness, part of it is the desire to make money and boost circulation no matter what and I expect part of it is a political/moral agenda that they're more than willing to bend the truth to support. None of those are a valid excuse for publishing lies and, god dammit, they shouldn't be allowed to anymore.

But you won't see a fuckwit senator stepping in to support this cause, will you? Because they're as full as shit as the media is, they're scared of what the media will say about them if they attack it, and they're probably taking advantage of the lies in the media half the time themselves.

Sigh. I want to get off this stupid planet and find another species to live amoung.

"In "Stubbs the Zombie," the lead character eats the brains of humans as blood splatters across the screen.

"It's just the worst kind of message to kids," said Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., who joined institute officials at a press conference announcing the group's 10th annual video game report card."

HAHAHHAHA how the fuck does that man stay in office

Wow, I love how playing computer games excuses almost ALL my antisocial behavior!

Someone please release a widely publicized rape simulator so that I can get off on an insanity plea for that too!

It's seriously time to find a new hobby. These days I find more reasons to hate games and the gaming industry than it is to find reasons to enjoy it.

I mean in 5 years we are going to have “Kitty Petting Simulator 17” published by the only publisher left (EA), which you won’t be able to configure you controls or skip the 16 ads that come before the actual game – if your even lucky to get past the “you’re a fucking thief” copy protection that is.

Not that it matters of course because the game will require you to buy 18,000 dollars worth of hardware only to put up with a kitty that looks suspiciously like a Honda civic for the 3 seconds you play before getting a blue screen.

Sadly I don’t think my sarcasm is that far off.

I miss the days of Jumpman and Fort Apocolypse – minus the tape loading that is :)

Why don't zombies eat other zombies?

"Something we've never seen before"? I guess they've never played Doom 3.

Um, let me tell you something guys.

The only trend in the gaming industry is remaking D-Day for every WWII game ever made.

Everyone knows the coming hot trend in 07 releases is masturbating cannibalistic zombies. Wait until they get a load of those. And to appeal to the otherside of the aisle are the games featuring vegan zombies, wrap your mind around that one. Or what about World of Warcraft when you play the undead and can cannibalize corpses? Is that a training program much like GTA or FPS games are copkilling school shooting programs?


Who will speak up for the undead with all this anti-undeadism in the media and from politicians?


Free the undead don't execute them!!!

I got disconnected (I hate being on dial up...wish broadband was available...but thats another subject) before I could post this. So I'll do it again:

What bothers me is that this is taken completely out of context. In F.E.A.R. its simply part of the story...its not a major part even. But taking it out for fear of offending people because of "cannibalism" is moronic! This isn't about oversensationalised violence or shock for the sake of shock-value...they're now getting all pissed off over offensive ideas in general. This logic could easily be applied to other forms of expression as well (forms of expression that have fortunately fended off enough attacks from the ravenous retard mob to be relatively safe (occasional "banned-books" not-withstanding)). I mean, I'd hate to see what these folks would do if they found out that their kids are encouraged to read things like (GASP) Heart of Darkness or 1984 (ugh...icky sex scenes...and torture!) or what-have-you (yeah, this is where I got disconnected...lost my train of thought).

Movies have a lot of shit in them too...the argument I keep hearing about video games is that "uhm, they let you do the 'bad stuff' though," which IMHO is a flawed argument anyway...but thats not really the entire issue here. FEAR's getting targeted...FEAR's "cannibalism" is carried out by the 'bad guy' in a cut-scene. Not only are you not doing it in the game...but its in a non-interactive section...essentially a MOVIE! Right here the whole, "but you're doing it" argument is being dropped (albeit quietly because so long as you say "its a game" the average person who's never played this game or games in general will think otherwise). These folks claim they want to have laws banning young people from getting games that aren't appropriate for them...BUT there are no LAWS that say a young person can't get a movie that isn't appropriate for them with "dangerous ideas" in it. As far as I know...it isn't illegal at all to sell Hannibal or Silence of the Lambs or whatever to a kid...there are policies in place at a number of stores regarding this...but it isn't a matter of law (same situation with Video Games). Hell, it definately isn't against the law for a kid to see something "offensive" on TV. Why attack games then; because they're an easier target. The movie industry has a more effective lobbying group (same with the music industry)...more people have been avid movie watchers than gamers I'd imagine (at least among groups that VOTE)...games are new, AND they're artistic value is at question by some...some would say that their legal status as protected expression hasn't been established across the nation (I imagine there are people in the anti-game camp who'd love to take this to the Supreme Court in the hopes that they might say "oh its not expression...its something else...no protections there...sorry"). Other forms of media have gone through this...so there is definate hope...but its always worrisome that a lot people are against the freedoms of expression and thought in any new form (it makes you wonder if they're all that keen on the already better protected forms).

Actually, reading about it makes wanna eat people even more.

Well, clearly, human flesh is tastier than our lesser meat-padded friends.

Hay kids! Lets go eat some people!

Video games made me do it!

mmmmm......bbbrraaaiiinnnsssss............

Soccer goals ... how dangerous are they?

Yes, that was the tagline for a news story on local Atlanta news a few years ago about how "dangerous" soccer goals are at kid's playgrounds and soccer fields.

If the media can hype it up and scare the crap out of ignorant parents, they'll do it.

I, for one, bow down and offer my fleshy bits to our new cannabalist overlords!

This is obviously not cannibalism. Stubbs eats brains, and there are no fucking brains involved in this announcement.

"The normal question, the first question is, are these cannibals? No, they are not. Cannibalism in the true sense of the word implies an interspecies activity. These creatures cannot be considered human. They prey on humans. They do not prey on each other, that's the difference. They attack and they feed only on warm flesh. Intelligence? Seemingly no reasoning ability, but basic skills remain from a remembered everyday life. There have been reports of these creatures using tools. But even these are the most basic, the use of tools as bludgeons and so forth. I might point out that even animals have been known to adopt the use of tools in this manner. These creatures are nothing but pure, motorized instinct. We must not be lulled by the concept that they are our family members or our friends. They are not. They will not respond to such emotions. They must be destroyed on sight!"

-Dr. Millard Rausch, "Dawn of the Dead"

After playing F.E.A.R., I bit my sister in the face. :( I pretty much can't play stuff like that anymore. Oh, but Dawn of the Dead had no effect on me, so it looks like only games are damaging to my mental state of mind.

This totally uninteresting news article calls for Hufu: http://www.bestdomainever.com/hufu.avi

My neighbor played a lot of pac man when he was a kid. Pac-Man taught him to eat balls. That must be why hes gay.

Wow, just wow



i'm hungry...

I think I saw that 12 games to avoid list on CNN the other day and remember seeing Far Cry as number 1. Far Cry? What was so obscenely objectable in that game compared to others?

Any publicity is good publicity :)

They seem to be missing the point...which is that Stubbs the Zombie is a great game, although too short.

Has anybody actually met a Zombie? Last time I checked they aren't real, nor human, so they can eat all they want, whatever they want, it ain't cannibalism ;P

The only disurbing trend here is people making excuses of all sorts to blame inadequate parenting on games, and about everything else.

And don't even get me started on this retarded lawyers or politicians :)

They seem to be missing the point...which is that Stubbs the Zombie is a great game, although too short.

Well after picking and eating a few peoples games I have..I have been told....well that zombies arent real. Little did they know that there is a video game about them, and that infact makes them real.


OH MY GOD this is stupid...STUPID AS HELL I SAY....

But gotta love Wideload, such an awesome response.

Just glad I got to play Stubbs the Cannibal before it is taken off store shelves.

After reading this article.. I have the urge to eat me somebody.. where are the hott chicks at?

The only way to protect yourself from the game-mad zombies this will create is to play a lot of Resident Evil. It's a zombie-killing simulator, and therefore provides valuable training in methods of zombie disposal.

These problems correct themselves, see?

This made me LOL

Um, cannibalism is the new black?

/I got nothing

Some random kid just ran up to me off the street and bit me and then tried to pull my brains out!! It's Armageddon!!

I'd say a zombie eating human flesh is still cannabalism. Why not?

Video games are just the new generation of media scare tactic stories they can run when they don't feel like actually putting any effort or thought into their work. It is the same thing as "Tonight at 10: Five things in your house that can KILL you. Tune in!"

Good time to start a franchise based on C.H.U.D.

Im sure Wideload and Monolith will love all this free publicity . These things always backfire cause the more you tell people to stay away, the more it will peak there interest.