• Russian media links suicide bombing to Modern Warefare 2
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[quote]On Monday, tragedy struck outside Moscow when a suicide bomber blew himself up at the Domodedovo airport, killing 35 people and injuring 180. In the wake of the massacre, no parties have come forward to claim responsibility, although Chechen separatists, which have mounted similar attacks in the past, are likely to be blamed. Russian state media is speculating that Modern Warfare 2 may have inspired a real-life attack. Sadly, though, it appears the Russian media has found something else to blame--video games. As spotted by the New York Times, state-sponsored satellite network Russia Today broadcast a report that juxtaposed security camera footage of the actual attack with clips of the infamous "No Russian" level of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. In that mission, players must join in a Mumbai-style attack in a fictional Russian airport, gunning down civilians en masse. "The bloody scenes of the Moscow attack are reminiscent of what can be seen in a computer game that controversially involves a character who is urged to attack civilians in an imaginary airport," says the anchorwoman, before cutting to a montage of the No Russian level and disturbing images of the real-life attack. Later, the correspondent says that the level "mirrors" the real-life suicide bombing. The report goes on to quote Fox News terrorism analyst Walid Phares as saying he is concerned that terrorists could be using games as training tools. "I think those who have been radicalized already, let's suppose in this case jihadists [or] Al Qaeda or [some] other kind, they look at the games and say these games will serve them to train." As of press time, Activision reps had not commented on the Russia Today report. [/quote] Source and News video [url=http://www.gamespot.com/news/6286915.html]Here[/url]
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This is sickening.
Remember: No Russian.
Funny and i'm sure it's probably due to other things, but, the question still remains: what is "Warefare"?
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They'd have an argument if the game used the exact layout of the airport but it didn't as far as I know
Stop pointing fingers at video games, other types of media are no different in content.
Notice that fox news is in there to so it have to be legit then, Better go boycott Activision and IW
They'd also have an argument if the game had you suicide bomb the airport. Or if it was an accurate map of the airport. Or if you were actually forced to play it (You get the option to skip it three times.)
I sure hope Kotick gets sued for this, somehow..
I hope Putin gets pissed at Activision and shit hits fan very fast. Activision: Broke and now lacking a CEO. Nobody actually knows where he went. In all seriousness, though, what the fuck? Oh let's blame a real world event on video games again. This could have happened in CDG or Hong Kong or Heathrow, nobody would liken it to a video game.
[QUOTE=Jon27;27659048] In all seriousness, though, what the fuck? Oh let's blame a real world event on video games again. This could have happened in CDG or Hong Kong or Heathrow, nobody would liken it to a video game.[/QUOTE] Army of Two, True crime, Yakuza. I´m sure they would find something to blame
someone once used a gun to kill someone ban every FPS ever
It's the media. Move along folks.
Why don't people blame some of the fault on the media for the economic collapse or any other shit? I mean, a heightened awareness in the general public COULD have averted some of the collapse, but no, they choose to focus on mundane shitty things.
[QUOTE=Jon27;27659048] In all seriousness, though, what the fuck? Oh let's blame a real world event on video games again. This could have happened in CDG or Hong Kong or Heathrow, nobody would liken it to a video game.[/QUOTE] Because these games give people IDEAs, and we don't want them to get CREATIVE with IDEAs. Without MW2, these creative ideas would've never existed. And we would all be immortal and invincible.
Video games = Terrorist training experiments according to the media.
Yes because a 'shooting up' of an airport that was well planned out and ends up starting a new war is the same as someone with tnt under their clothes running into an airport and blowing them selves up. I am sick of crap news stations... Although it is good to know that not only Australia has these too lol (i am australian.).
Yeah well I'd suicide bomb somewhere if I played MW2 too.
Those Chechen militants who've been fighting Russia for years now totally got all their ideas from vidya.
Russia Made Vodka... So i blame them for drink driving, Lets sue Russia.
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[QUOTE=Psychokitten;27659831]*andnotasinglefuckwasgiventhatday.gif*[/QUOTE] yeah who gives a shit about people dying lol?
Why don't they ever blame shit on any other form of media than video games?
[QUOTE=Mr.Dounut;27659998]yeah who gives a shit about people dying lol?[/QUOTE] I was referring to the media accusations against videogames. [editline]25th January 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Tunak Mk. II;27660080]Why don't they ever blame shit on any other form of media than video games?[/QUOTE] Television. They've blamed that plenty of times.
Yes, lets relate: :siren:[b]NSFW[/b]:siren: [media]http://www.apacheclips.com/files/33d9f19ace2d.jpg[/media] To a fucking video game, that makes sense.
those scenes do remind you of no russian, but how much of a difference can you get when you mix massacre with russian airport?
[QUOTE=<man>;27660612]those scenes do remind you of no russian, but how much of a difference can you get when you mix massacre with russian airport? To a fucking video game, that makes sense.[/QUOTE] No, it reminds me of a growing problem that could happen anywhere in the world. It also reminds me that those are real people that aren't going back to their families, and the person that did this, there probably are more thinking to do it. Not some bloody guys slaughtering people with machine guns in a airport.
VIDYA GAMEs ARE TRAINING TOOLS FOR TEWOWISTS
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