It’s the height of the fall rush, and more and more games rain down upon us every day. And with so many games, whoever will tell us which of them contains objectionable content? The Entertainment Software Rating Board, that’s who!
Each week, we take a look at the new and creative ways that video games are offending us. Well, not us. We’ve developed a thick skin to alcohol references, partial nudity and comic mischief. Other people, however, may be disgusted by what video games are doing.
You know, video games will rot your brain. They’re filled with nothing more than gratuitous fish abuse, LEGO toilet humour and references to pornographic cannonballs — or so this week’s most potentially offensive video games might lead us to believe.
How are new and upcoming video games potentially offending us now? In mostly the same old ways: with excessive violence and gore, earfuls of foul language, smoking, drinking and “suggestive themes”, sometimes known as sex.