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Video Games Should Replace Shooting Things with Sorting Laundry or Cuddling With Your Cat

July 18, 2019 by Dan Zimmerman

We present the following without further comment. Shooting things in games is intrinsically compelling. Firing, watching something blow up, and then seeing our score ping higher on the screen creates an exciting feedback loop that gives us immediate agency and power. Shooters are the most popular genre of video game in the U.S. and account for … Read more

Kotaku Editor: Stop Me Before I Shoot Again!

March 30, 2018March 30, 2018 by Dan Zimmerman

The Parkland massacre — and, more accurately, the media-driven Astroturf anti-gun push that’s followed it — has prompted all manner of earnest self-reflection on the the part that firearms play in American culture and entertainment. And perhaps no form of mental masturbation is more gun-drenched than the video game industry. It’s the gnawing embarrassment and … Read more