Two researchers interviewed military members and vets to see what role first-person shooters played in their lives – before, during and after their enlistments.
The latest instalment of wildly popular videogame Call of Duty, Advanced Warfare, shows the narratives of today’s games can reveal the motives behind real-world politics. Over the past decade, fictional…
There is no evidence that Call of Duty causes suicide.
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A British coroner has sparked anxiety among parents by linking Call of Duty, one of the most popular video games in the world, to teenage suicide. John Pollard says Call of Duty has “figured in recent…
Where are all the Parisians? Call of Duty avoids hurting people by simply pretending they don’t exist.
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The Red Cross has called for makers of videogames to more actively embed and interrogate the laws of war by, for example, punishing players for killing civilians or using torture to gain information. However…
A grand narrative is more important than bloodlust.
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Battlefield 3, a video game developed by Electronic Arts (EA), has caused a stir. The debate of violence in computer games has become not just a regulatory issue but a political one too. Perhaps understanding…
Black Ops II was one of the most-anticipated games of 2012, and it’s had the sales figures to match.
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Last week, the first-person military shooter game Call of Duty: Black Ops II hit the shelves. The release marks the fourth year in a row that a game in the Call of Duty series has had the “biggest entertainment…
