Media
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Two More Gaming Magazines Are Ending
10UK gaming magazines GamesTM and GameMaster will publish their final issues next month, owner Future Publishing announced today. This news hits close to home for me as someone who used to read GamesTM and has always loved the feel of a nicely weighted, glossy gaming mag.
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GTA V And Dead Island Called Out For Depiction Of Women
When you look at the success of stuff like The Hunger Games, Gravity and Orange Is The New Black, it’s safe to say this was a pretty good year for the depiction of women in media. Just the same, though, it hasn’t all been peachy this year.
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Nobody Wins When Horror Games Stigmatise Mental Illness
Public attitudes regarding mental illness are frequently apocryphal and damaging, and a major source of these views is media portrayal of a topic that affects all of us to some extent. A few months ago, an open letter was posted in response to a Kotaku article on the upcoming horror game, Outlast, which takes place…
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Marine Vet Justifies His Argument For Xbox As ‘Anti-Empathy Machine’
Today on televison, somebody said something reasonable about violent video games. Karl Marlantes, an author, marine veteran and author of the book “What It Is Like to Go to War” fielded a question on C-Span2 about the long-term effect that unrealistic depictions of war in media and specifically gaming will have on the military.