In the nineties, women and grandmas came to the industry – and in it immediately smelled. Rating scandals, stolen textures, illegal gaming servers, naked standstants, offended prostitutes and one overly brisk lawyer – today “Gambling” recalls who, when, and with whom he fought, cursed, sued and shared Navar.
2001
He died for Everquest
In November 2001, American Schong Wulie, who was addicted to the online game Everquest , Dies at the computer. Mom, Liz, finds him among the scribbled pieces of paper and crumpled pizza boxes and turns to the players and in Sony Online Entertainment , Maly to explain what happened to her son. This is the first case of a game suicide that received wide publicity.
With the help of a community, Liz finds out that shortly before suicide, Sean created a similar character, called him Iluveyou and, trying to attract the attention of some girl, ran so for three hours, and then left the game-so as not to return. Subsequently, it becomes known that Sean was hooked on Everquest long before suicide: at first he left work, then stopped paying for the apartment and moved to his mother, then fled from the group for people prone to the addictions in which his mother determined him, and finally, and, finally, secretly bought a gun.
For the first time faced with such behavior, the head of SOE John Smidley consults many psychologists and, finally, gives comments: “I expressed my condolences to Mrs. Wuli. All this is terrible, but such things happen. You can’t say that in the death of Sean is to blame Everquest. I see nothing in common between entertainment and suicide. This is entertainment. Tell me, books are dangerous? The television show is dangerous? I suppose no. People should take responsibility and admit: “Well, listen, enough already. Stop ". It's just a game ". However, after this incident, Smidley insists that a watch that informs about how much time a person spent in the game appeared in Everquest.
Having recovered from what happened, Liz demands that SOE place a warning on a box with Mmorpg that it is addictive and creates a site where it helps others get rid of the pernicious passion for online games. So people begin to die for mmorpg.
July
Such a cow needs yourself
Toby Gard, better known as Papa Lara Croft, admits that he had never imagined his heroine with a silicone doll of unnatural proportions. Initially, Lara was a completely normally tailored girl, but then artists Core Design (seeing real women only in the early films of Pamela Anderson) Laras Lara Five breasts and continued to increase it with the release of each new part. This, according to Gardi, was one of the reasons for his departure from the company several years ago: to milk Lara Croft for the mammary glands, it seems to the developer too simple use of his talent.
May
Spears for the release
Happy publisher ThQ The long-term exclusive contract for games with her participation is signed with Britney Spears, not even suspecting that very soon the young pop-prinsessa will turn into Z … that is, it will get married, divorce, get married again, give birth to two children, divorce, worships, sniffs, sniffs, sniff It will become fat and, in general, according to all criteria will cease to be the limit of the dreams of teenagers.
And although after the clinic and runs Britney still manages to pull himself together and record successful albums, the game with her participation is released only one- Britney Dance Beat. She is one of the few dance simulators on PC.
november
They were on FIFA
The very first part Pro Evolution Soccer It just appears in stores, and the French football association is already submitting to Konami To the court – for the use of logos, forms, names and photographs of players of the French national team in PES. The trial lasts two and a half years (which does not prevent Konami from releasing new versions of PES) and ends with the complete defeat of the football association.
2002
Do you have to do
Early and completely non-grave alpha version Doom 3 , main after Duke Nukem Forever long -building five -year plan, flowing into the network. John Karmak is furious and accuses of leakage of the manufacturer of graphic cards ATI , to which the version of the game was given to testing. ATI in response dismisses one of its employees, presumably responsible for the leak, but the relationship ID Software And the ATI breaks forever; As a result, DOOM 3 is optimized under graphic cards NVIDIA.
Meanwhile, Russian pirates sell Alfa Doom 3 in size of 380 MB in jewel boxes of sixty rubles apiece, and especially arrogant even give out for a full version of the long-awaited hit. Although the karmak persistently calls the players to stay away from the pirate and in no case do not evaluate the quality of the game by a piece of code far from completion – people who are not tolerant of making sure of the steepness of their freshly acquired GeForce are bought, evaluated, they are convinced that they are inhibited, and they are slowing down, and they are slowing down and They wave their hand.
September
My dad was Turkish
PRarters living in the last days of the publishing house Acclaim Entertainment , promoting shooter Turok: Evolution , They finally lose touch with reality and offer $ 10 thousand of the first married couple, which dares to name her child by the name of the Turks – in honor of the protagonist of the game.
October
Tighty day
Acclaim Entertainment It is called to pay all the fines issued by the London police on the day of the release of the game Burnout 2: Point of Impact , dedicated to a gross violation of traffic rules. The London police and mayor of the city prevent Acclaim from arranging a real Burnout on the streets of the British capital, and after some time it turns out that both Turks and fines were only competent PR.
november
Georgian question
The game comes out on the Xbox Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell , in which everything is fine except a delusional script. The plot invented by the famous American writer Tom Clansi talks about how the new Georgian President Combine Nikoladze, who came to power as a result of the coup, secured the support of unnamed international terrorists, Chinese military and Russian mafia, decides to attack the United States. But this scenario seems nonsense only at the time of the release of the game: a year later in Georgia, the coup actually takes place and Mikhail Saakashvili comes to power, who allegedly with the assistance of the United States in August 2008 attacks Russia.
2003
You can’t shoot everyone
A year passes from the release Grand Theft Auto: Vice City , Suddenly, American migrants from among the Haitians and Cubans notice that their compatriots in the game are often killed and intentionally, while pronouncing phrases like “killing all the Hitians!" – and this, in their opinion, pulls on genocide. As for the Cubans, they are generally depicted in the game with real clowns with a large mustache and chicken brains, which are always fighting with the Gaethians for power in the area. And this is not counting that the representatives of both nationalities in the world of the game are something like street gopniks who unkindly mowed on the pale-faced Tommy Versetti, enter into street skirmishes, but they never participate in serious matters, hunting for small-optic drug trafficking.
Rockstar Games , already accustomed that each game of the GTA series attracts special attention, releases a press release in which he says that he understands the concern of the Hayites with the problem of genocide, but believes that they, to put it mildly, are fanned from the fly of the elephant.
However, the Haitian community continues to say that killing the Hayites for the sake of entertainment is vile, and no one knows what can happen, such a game in the hands of some madman who will take her for the leadership to action. As a result, under the pressure of the public, including the mayor of the New York, threatening to “do everything that is possible”, the developers agree to cut out the unfortunate lines of dialogues that insult the state guests, and in 2004 a new, censored version of GTA: Vice City was released.
May
It is necessary to share!
A certain programmer Mark Gallagher demands Rockstar North £ 1.5 million per idea Grand Theft Auto. In court, Gallagher states that in 1993 he wrote a game about the adventures of street bandits, called it Crime Inc. And, trying to get a job in Rockstar, showed the studio representatives. The carrier with the game was taken from him, but they never hired to work … And after some time GTA appeared in the stores.
Rockstar makes round eyes to all this and declares that she did not hear about any gallahere.
August
Jolie squeezed out
Producers of the second (and worst) film about Lara Croft, " Larakroft: Tomb of Tombs 2. The cradle of life ", Terribly dissatisfied with the developers of the sixth (and worse) game about Lara Croft, Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness. Corporation Paramount Pictures accuses the gaming publishing house Eidos And the studio Core Design The fact that the poorly made game negatively affects the start of the film at the box office: they say, players upset by the depressing quality of the game decided not to go to the film. And since it is the players that is his target audience, no one went to the film anymore. And the president of the Paramount distribution department can only swear and claim that the problem is by no means in the film itself (in the end, there is Angelina Jolie there!).
Knowing the date of the exit of both projects, only one thing can be stated: in Eidos they screwed the first.
2004
Delton massacre
In the American town of Delton, four young guys at the ready with baseball and aluminum bits are broken into a strange house and in cold blood they score six people there.
During the investigation, it turns out that justice was restored in this way: the attackers were sure that the victims were robbed by their friend, Troy Victorino, among other things, the console that was missing one important thing – the console Xbox. As soon as this detail becomes known to the press, a bloody, but in general typical story for America gets incredible publicity.
The attackers caught in hot pursuit are detained, but they cannot lead the court in Delton – such a hype is such that the case is transferred to another city city. The proceedings have been going on for two years, and every day all new details are being clarified: a week before the murder of one of the attackers, they saw shooters from a gun on a car; Two days before the murder, the accomplices, standing in the store, thought about how to do with the victims: just break the skull or torment, pushing the baseball bat in the throat; The crime was committed from the criminal drama "Wonderland"; Troy Victorino once attacked a man, but was released on bail; “For the case” 15 baseball bats were collected from local children … “And it all started with xbox!" – each time the authors of notes summarize.
In August 2006, the judge finally announces the verdict: two attackers are sentenced to death, two-for life imprisonment without the possibility of an amnesty. In the press, the incident is called the "Delton massacre", for the eyes – "Masins on the basis of" Xbox ".
February
Pay about him while he is alive
To the office Crytek , developer Far Cry , With shouts "Hende Hoch!»German policemen burst, a search and allegedly find out that the company uses some programs without a license. Later it turns out that the police came on a tip of the former Crytek employee. Rumors that large fines are waiting for the company and the incident will affect the date of Far Cry, they do not find confirmation.
March
Strange
User Christopher Spence initiates a group lawsuit of $ 5 million to the publishing house Ubisoft For the fact that it uses a system of protection against illegal copying in its games StarForce , which harms the computer and deprives people of the legal right to have a backup copy of the game they purchased. Representative of the Russian company Protection Technology , Creator StarForce, states that the lawsuit is “undoubtedly sponsored by competitors and criminal groups that make money on pirate products”. Players hold their fists and regret that Spence suits Ubisoft, and not with the developers of the protection system itself.
June
All to fight sexual illiteracy
Association is created in China China Youth Network , The purpose of which is to monitor the sexual health of youth: talk about HIV infection and unwanted pregnancy, sexual discrimination, violence, etc.D. Among other things, representatives of the Association in large quantities are censored by video games, and after a couple of months the China Youth Network becomes the main new -maker of foreign gaming sites.
October
Knights-stithers
Strategy appears on sale Knights of Honor , which, when installed on a computer, removes from the hard drive emulators of CD drives like Daemon Tools. During the installation, the game checks if there are emulators in the library system, finds them and asks the user to remove from certain files protection against copying. The player takes it off and the emulator goes to the garbage basket.
The forums rises, but the developers unlock that the creators of the emulators are to blame for everything: they say, they see on the horizon a harmless game of Knights of Honor – and they themselves are deinstalized. The developers of emulators can no longer withstand here, and soon the creators of the game have to admit: well, there was a mistake, we will correct the nearest patch.
november
And the pens-here they are!
Marvel , American comic book publisher, suits the corporation NCSOFT , Creating MMORPG City of Heroes. The subject of the dispute is the in -game editor of the characters, which allegedly allows you to create heroes as two drops of water similar to stars of some comics.
NCSOFT denies everything, the plaintiff is pressing, and it turns out that some of the controversial characters were created by employees of Marvel itself. After that, the hype around the case quickly comes to naught, and after a year the parties come to the conclusion that there is still nothing to change in the editor of the characters.
A year later, Marvel instructs Cryptic Studios , Creator City of Heroes, developing his own MMORPG Marvel University Online , However, the game does not survive before the release.
December
She was only seventeen
A young American suits the court for Microsoft , Sony Computer Entertainment , Topheavy Studios And Gathering of Developers , accusing the company of releasing the game The Guy Game , They broke her life.
The Guy Game is a quiz where the player shows a lush young lady for the correct answers, which unties the straps of a swimsuit, removes it … well, and so on. One of these undressing young ladies is our heroine. In the statement of claim, she reports that at the time of filming she was 17 years old, that the gaming companies viciously deceived her, that she was actually “going to go to college, make a career, gain authority among peers and go to church,” but after that, but after that As everyone saw her naked in The Guy Game, on these plans you can put a cross. The judge agrees with the plaintiff and prescribes to cut out of the game any mention of the minor model. For some time, copies of the original game are walking on ebay and are in good demand among collectors, but soon they are removed from the sale and there.
2005
Coffee on trousers
In the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas , developed Rockstar North and the rating “M” (for citizens from 17 and older), scenes are found that usually drive people into the paint and ten years old.
There is a plot, there is the main character Karl, there are six of his girlfriends. According to the plot, Karl can flirt with them – and, with a successful combination of circumstances, the girls invite him to visit “in coffee”. Karl, of course, agrees and enters the house, and the camera, swaying rhythmically, remains hanging in the doorway. The player is not visible, but unequivocal sighs are clearly heard, and that Karl today is a great lucky one, there is no doubt.
A year after the release of San Andreas, it becomes known about the existence of a mod that adds to the GTA mini-game. Everything is the same: the plot, Karl, six girls, “go to a cup of coffee”, “Well, of course!"… Only now the camera does not remain in the doorway – and the player becomes the main character in the piquant scene.
The scandal around the already long -suffering San Andreas flares up with renewed vigor. Rockstar North is unlocking: there were no such scenes in the original game, there were no, there were no, there were no! The creator of the fashion shrugs: yes, I rearranged a couple of lines of code there – and here it is how it happened. It comes to the Senate, in front of Rockstar’s office, demonstrations are arranged, a fighter with video players lawyer Jack Thompson triumphantly shocks his fists – and the American rating association gives GTA Schildik “only for adults”. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is the only one in the USA widespread game with the 18+ sticker. Soon, however, Rockstar cuts out of the code all mention of unfortunate coffee, and GTA return the original rating.
January
Red wedge hit the game
The Government of the People's Republic of China is seriously taking up games: fifty video games are prohibited in the country. Twenty -six is supposed to be removed from stores because they are published illegally, and twenty -four – including shooters VietCong: Fist Alpha And Devastation – for containing scenes objectionable to the regime.
March
Get a star
FBI and Interpol graduate from the International Anti -Pirate Operation Operation Fastlink , As a result of which members of several hacker groups who hacked and copied video games were calculated and caught. In addition to others, Set Kleinberg – publishing editor of the online magazine, is in the bench Game Over Online ( www.GAME-OVER.Com ). Seth admit that he really drained the source of the video game to the side, and receives the most strict sentence among all the defendants – ten years behind bars.
July
There is nothing like that
The lawyer Jack Thompson already famous in narrow circles publishes an open letter, which even Hillary Clinton gets to the addressees. Paper reports that the game The Sims 2 , Recommended for children and housewives from thirteen years old, there are almost elements of pornography.
Naturally, we are talking about user modifications, some of which are removed from the figures of virtual men Muar and "attach" them with genitals. Thompson is indignant and requires blood. The publisher of the game wraves that the developers cannot be responsible for the mods created by the players – as well as the editorial office of the newspaper, for example, is not responsible for indecent pictures painted by readers in the fields. “Sims – that Barbie,” the developers say. – Under their clothes they have nothing "such". However, the team that allows you to remove from the causal places of the Muar is removed from the game in the next addition – quietly and without explanation of the reasons.
September
All -metal shell
Danish company Glud and Marstrand (G&M) accuses Microsoft The fact that the corporation disclosed a secret company to the secret of the production of metal DVD boxes. It is reported that in 2002 Microsoft turned to G&M and said she was going to publish a gift edition Halo 2 in a special metal box. The parties discussed the proposal, representatives of G&M shared with the customer a certain know-how, but the contract was never concluded. And now this very Halo 2 appears on the shelves in this very metal case, but it is only produced by the third company, Viva , which allegedly used G&M technologies.
Apparently, the case is chopped, but Glud and Marstrand with her ridiculous claim is recalled for a long time on game forums.
Passion for Sony
Sony releases in honor of the decade PlayStation A brilliant poster: against a black background, the face of a young Italian flaunts in a thorns wreath, whose spikes are curved in the form of branded circles, triangles, crosses and squares. "Ten years of passion" – says the Latin phrase under the photograph. Everyone understands: this is a transparent hint of the film "Passion of Christ", released by chalk Gibson a year earlier. The official Vatican calls the advertisement disrespectful and with displeasure declares that "now the children will think that the torment of Christ is such a game".
november
New York police against true crime
New York Police Commissioner publicly states that a video game True Crime: New York City Claims the appearance of an American policeman, as virtual cops do not disdain illegal methods and often behave like real criminals. The retired detective Bill Clark, who advised developers, replies that True Crime is still a game, not a training video, and he would advise the police to think about raising the salaries of officers, and not about computer games. However, the commissar nevertheless achieves that each disk is attached to the information with the information that the police of the city of New York had nothing to do with the game, has no and will not have.
november
I did not play, but I condemn
Console shooter Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon 2 , telling about the conflict that erupted in 2011 in the territory of North and South Korea is prohibited to sell in South Korea itself. The developers assure that the script they created has nothing to do with real life – “they just tried to come up with the most convincing plot for the game,” but this does not help. The game is not prohibited in North Korea, but is intensely condemned by the government.
December
Sit not to leave
Russian Valentin Kiselev, owner of an unofficial game server Ragnarok Online , found guilty of illegal use of copyright objects. The process causes a wave of indignation on the network: the official and pirate customers were compared with Total Commander, Ultracompare and Microsoft Excel, and in court they were operated on phrases like “The site laid out a game”. Nevertheless, the judge sentences in the form of three years in prison with a trial period of five years, Kiselev does not want to listen and subsequently refuses to revise the case.
2006
Cosmic (anti -) pirates
On January 1, Technoblog Boing Boing reports that the system of protection against copying StarForce , used by many gaming publishers, behaves as malicious software, inhibiting the operation of the hard drive and lowering the performance of the operating system. In a month, the author of the note receives from Protection Technology , The creator of StarForce, a letter in which the developers threaten to sue him, claim that they have already contacted the FBI, and say that the text is “full of insults, false accusations and rumors”. Investigation, similar to Boeing Binging, conducts a news site CNET – and receives the same letter.
Two months later, an employee of Protection Technology publishes a link to the list of torrent distribution game Galactic Civilizations 2 , released by a game publisher Stardock without any protection system. Thus, the Protection Technology probably wants to demonstrate what unwillingness to defend their games can lead to, but this act causes such a wave of Internet infinity that the company has to apologize.
A month later Futuremark , Famous Benchmark manufacturer, holds his own Starforce test. The test proves that the system receives the highest level of access to computer resources and works all the time, even when the defendable game is not launched. Moreover, the StarForce user takes some actions for an attempt to copy secure software and immediately and without warning restarts the computer, preventing the programs to complete the work or at least save.
Game resources immediately recall the collective lawsuit of Christopher Spenes, filed to Ubisoft Two years ago. Representatives of Protection Technology for all manifestations of discontent are limited, according to the local tradition, rude and cynical subscriptions. The snowy lump of mass irritation and discontent cannot be stopped, and all self -respecting publishers refuse to use StarForce, switching to Securom production Sony. Pretty soon, however, it turns out that it is not much more humane and even borrows from Starforce some protection algorithms.
January
And the sex industry is against
The Union of Sexual Industry Workers of the United States opens against the game GTA: San Andreas. The organization publishes a statement that emphasizes that although the members of the trade union have always been against any form of censorship, they, like any other normal parents, would not want their children to play such cruel games. In particular, sex industry employees do not like that in GTA: San Andreas you can kill and rob prostitutes (well, many other characters). Members of the trade union believe that a game in which a person allows a rude to treat women of an ancient profession forms a certain stereotype of behavior, so it should be banned and removed from the shelves.
February
There are only 399 left them
Stefan Erickson, founder and one of the directors of the company, gets into a car accident Gizmondo , released the most poorly sold portable console in the world (it was possible to sell less than 25 thousand copies).
It turns out that Erickson, previously convicted of relations with the Swedish mafia, drove into a telephone column at a speed of three hundred kilometers per hour. The car – one of the four hundred fired Ferrari Enzo worth a million dollars – just fell apart and is no longer subject to restoration, but Erickson himself survived alive.
Upon learning of the accident, the president of the American Club of Ferrari owners Chris Banning will say: “He destroyed one of the best cars on Earth, perhaps even the best. It's like taking and burning a Van-GOGA picture ".
March
In GTA, drive
Bus passengers in English county Lancashire complain that one of the drivers plays in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories on PSP, not only at stops, but also during the drive – that is, when it should be monitored exclusively after the road. Local authorities study the recordings of surveillance cameras, are convinced that this is pure truth, and immediately dismiss the poor fellow. The police do not find a criminal offense, but it is obvious that our hero can now drive the bus only in GTA.
May
Feel your exclusivity
Ken Kutaragi, president Sony Computer Entertainment , protects the high price for PlayStation 3. According to him, the console, costing $ 500, is actually “too cheap”: “Is it not foolish to compare the score for dinner in a chic restaurant and in the cafeteria? The question is what you get for this money and what you can do with the console. If you can get amazing sensations from it, then the price should not be a problem ”. Everyone nods in agreement, and they think to themselves: “That's it, Mr. President, only there would be more good games there”.
July
Warrior named Roger
Hollywood actor Roger Hill demands from a game publishing house Take-Two $ 250 million for what it uses in its new game The Warriors Four words spoken by Roger more than twenty years ago.
The Warriors was based on the cult film “Warriors” of 1979, where Hill played the leader of a mighty gang named Syrus. You and I can’t understand this, but the Americans so sunk into memory of Sayirus, the phrase “can you dig it?"That to release the game of the same name and not to insert these words there would be a natural lead.
Roger claims that Take-Two representatives tried to get permission from him-but they stayed with his nose. And now it turns out that in The Warriors there is not only his hero Cyrus, but his, Hilla, voice. Take-Two is not particularly worried and says that her copyrights are clean and her nose will not flow.
August
Hot Croft
Singapore company Ozura Mobile publishes the game Lava Kroft -About the twenty-six-year-old busty lady who passionately adores dangers, treasures and handsome men. The main character of the mobile arcade is the name of Lava Croft – and you do not need to be seven spans in the forehead to understand that from Lara Croft from Tomb Raider She is distinguished by only one letter. Lawyers Eidos monitor what is happening hungry eyes and sharpen knives.
September
All for one
From NCSOFT dismiss the head of one of the projects with the motivation "Inability to establish normal relations in the team". Another 90 people leave with him, and six months later the remaining people sell the source of the innovative mmorpg code of the innovation code Lineage 3.
December
Crates to match
On the site Gametrailers.Com A video interview with David Jaffa, the creator appears God of War And Twisted Metal. The developer talks about the future of his games, about plans to make a third part of the GOW and another unnamed game. Everything is standard with the exception of one small part – David is clearly under a fly, right and left is thrown by the word “f ***” and eventually admits that he is far from the best game designer and knows this very well. Despite the fact that of all large companiesSony The most prone to such a shock, after a few days the video is still deleted-apparently, even in Sony, they considered it too.
2007
They were responsible for the goat
British magazine Official PlayStation Magazine reports that in March in Greece at a party dedicated to the exit God of War 2 , arranged a real bacchanal.
The publication says that the present was offered to try the hot insides of a freshly bite goat, gave them to play with live snakes and fed grapes from the hands of half -naked girls. Representatives Sony It is unlocking that the event was decent, the goat was, but – the dead (and a long time ago), and the journalists of Official PlayStation Magazine on the event did not appear, the article was written by the announcement of the invitation ticket.
Nevertheless, the material about the premiere appears in the British tabloid Daily Mail and provokes a serious hype. Profile journalists believe that this is all just a PR action, well-planned Sony, because a game such as God of War 2, a similar scandal only on hand.
April
Do not believe anyone
On the first of April, textures from S.T.A.L.K.E.R. , suspiciously similar to source Doom 3 And Half-Life 2. Strong proceedings are brewing, but after two days it turns out that Valve , GSC And IDSoftware just bought a graphics from the same company – Marlin Studios.
How to steal a billion
The unnamed company Mmorpg code codes stolen and sold Lineage 3. NSSOFT estimates losses of $ 1 billion. The office that bought information has not been found so far, and the third “line” itself is still just a rumor, but there is an opinion that Online Neksten-Gigra TERA Online Legs grow just from Lineage 3.
May
To purple dragon
A boy from New York flirts into Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly to an epileptic seizure, and his mother suits the court for Vivendi , Sierra , Sony and the store where the game was rented, complaining that the disk was not equipped with a user guide. Sony decides not to bring the case to court and dutifully asks to name the amount of compensation in order to solve the case with the world.
May
Dead blacks are also people
Konami publishes the trailer for the coming Resident Evil 5 , It shows how a white hero kills black zombies – and immediately receives a charges of racism. On a logical argument that zombies are no longer very people, American human rights activists object that “even normal residents of the village look like a zombie,” and explain that in this way Konami indicates the infection of the entire black race. Fighters for the rights of black women assent: allowing children to kill blacks, even disguised as a zombie, is a true way to grow fascists from them in the role of a white person.
The players are tiredly clamping their ears and reasonably indicate that in the series for many years, white dead are shot with impunity and no one has been objected to this.
June
God will forgive
At one of the levels of PS3-explosion Resistance: Fall of Man Hero is destroyed by a soldier of chimera in the Manchester Cathedral. The Anglican church threatens to sue, but Sony It unlocks that the action takes place in alternative reality and does not offend anyone's feelings.
July
And there is enough of your trash
Manhunt 2 , Horror about secret experiments on the psychiatric hospitals, refuse to publish on their platforms Sony And Nintendo ; The game is completely prohibited in four countries. In the USA and the UK, they collect petitions in defense by Manhunt 2 and against the ban on video games.
August
The team of hired killers
The game comes out All-Pro Football 2K8 , where the captain of the football team "Hempleys" is a player named about. Jay Simpson. Someone recalls that that was the name of the sadly famous football player in the nineties who stabbed his wife and her lover. In response to all ahs and sighs, the developers say that this is a random coincidence.
September
EA rewrites history
Game publishing house Electronic Arts They catch the fact that it rules the articles in Wikipedia: for example, cuts out information about poor working conditions and have left the corporation top managers. EA not only agrees that he actively rewrites the online encyclopedia, but also claims that this is “a common thing for many companies”.
September
Give five
The largest lawsuit in the field of copyright protection in China: Company Founder Electronics accuses Blizzard in the illegal use of its five fonts and requires compensation of $ 13.1 million.
September
Porn of Warcraft
Blizzard Blocks the account of actress Mia Rose for porn parodia on World of Warcraft , where she played a naked elf. The community shouts that the actions of the administration are unlawful, and the account is returned to the owner, but MIA can no longer play for her old character: she should appear on the Web, as other players are immediately glued to her.
October
Jack Thompson attacks
The fifteen -year -old son of the scandalously famous lawyer Jack Thompson buys without problems in a retail store BIOSHOCK , which can only be sold to persons over 17 years old. Jack Thompson triumphs and again demands to ban cruel video games.
October
Share good with the world
While British censors continue to boycott Manhunt 2 And blame Rockstar In deliberately lubricating sadistic murders, an initial, unbearable version of the game, which can download and install any owner of chipped PS2, is flowing into the network. Players around the world do so.
november
Eternal memory
Rockstar forgets to indicate in the credits Manhunt 2 Names 55 of their employees. This provokes another scandal, and on Game Developers Conference 2008 The question of the standardization of gaming credits is issued.
December
As a lawyer, I advise you to shut up
The Bar of Lawyers of Florida threatens to deprive Jack Thompson a law license for "repeated violations of professional ethics". Thompson, in response, fills the court with oncoming claims, accusing the lawyers and blogs of all heavy Gamepolitics , And Entertainment Consumers Association , And Microsoft , and a trading network Bestbuy.
December
Don't stick forward ahead
Executive Director Game Developers Conference claims that the company Gameland , organizing a conference GDC Russia , holds the event arbitrarily and without the knowledge of the central office. The Russian conference is quickly renamed in Gameland Developers Conference , And the incident is dried.
2008
Richard Garriot: That's all
Designed by the father of online games Richard Garriot and launched in November 2007 Mmorpg Richard Garriott’s Tabula Rasa Starts rather sluggishly. Only four servers are opened in the USA and Europe, of which only one is more or less settled, and stocks NCSOFT For a month and a half, they fall in price one and a half times.
Destination Games , Responsible for the development of the game Studio Richard Garriot, tries to fill Tabula Rasa with content and somehow diversify the gameplay, but Garriot himself almost does not participate in the support of the game: two months before the release, he announced that at the end of 2008 he would go into space, and now Preparing for the flight. The Gerriot conducts in training and examinations about the greatest part of 2008. How much time he devotes to the main work, it is not known, however, at all his costumes, NCSoft and Tabula Rasa logos flaunt, and it is obvious that the flight of General Garriot into near -Earth orbit attracts additional attention to the game. In addition, NCSOFT conducts the original event “Immortality Operation”, during which players are selected whose Garriot DNA in a special capsule delivers to orbit-in case there is some kind of catastrophe and will have to revive a person as a biological species.
In October, NCSoft unites several of its studios in the north-west of the United States to “simplify communications and concentrate on creating AAA-class games”. Evil languages say that the publisher is thus trying to take a garriot to the hands of the Destination Games, which has long been associated with people not with games, but with space and all sorts of irreal things. Garriot himself is located at the space station from October 14 to 24 and becomes the sixth space tourist and the second hereditary cosmonaut (Richard's father, Owen Garriot, flew into space in 1973).
For two weeks, Gerriote has been resting from the expedition and is not available for an interview, and on November 11 he suddenly addresses the community with speech: he revised his life values, acquired new interests and leaves the games – generally. November 23, NCSOFT renames the Richard Garriott’s Tabula Rasa in Tabula Rasa and reports that on February 28, 2010 the game will be closed. At the end of winter, servers are actually disconnected.
It soon turns out that Richard Garriot from Ncsoft was simply asked, he, in order not to inflate the scandal, was forced to sell NCSoft shares at a catchy price – and now requires compensation. The parties are sent to the court, which in July 2010 awards the famous developer $ 28 million. He is “extremely satisfied”, but NCSoft is going to appeal the court decision.
"New Interests" occupy Garriot for long: already in February 2010, he founded the studio Portlarium for the development of "premium games for social networks". The first such game is Sweet @$! Poker , Poker simulator for Facebook , However, in an interview, Garriot does not deny that someday, perhaps, will make a new Ultima Online – "At least conceptually".
January
Intentions and actions
In the heat of battle in Call of Duty 4 American teenager promises to arrange shooting at school. Local authorities catch the "terrorist" with the help Microsoft and Internet provider and threaten him with a fine of $ 5 million and the year of prison.
February
Play football, dance lambada
Brazilian authorities are prohibited Counter-STRIKE And Everquest , Motivating this by the fact that the games “incite order violation, undermine laws and democratic foundations of society, threaten national security”. Stores should get rid of anti -state games, and citizens – delete them from computers or pay a fine of $ 3000.
February
Karl at Clara stole corals ..
Beta version Assassin’s Creed flows into the network, from where it is downloaded 700 thousand times. Ubisoft conducts an investigation and finds out that the distribution has left the plant that replicates the discs; The house of one of the employees conduct a search and find a blank with a game. Ubisoft requires compensation of $ 10 million.
March
… and Clara stole a clarinet from Karl
Following the English -speaking build Assassin’s Creed The Russian -speaking version of the game appears on the Internet. Russian publisher, "" Akella ", Does not advise it – they say, contains critical errors.
March
I was the soul of a bad society
The British Association of Teachers calls for sellers to boycott a special publication Bully: Scholarship Edition : "While cruelty in schools is growing, to release games that encourage this – extremely irresponsible".
April
They will not pass
With a delay of six months, the British government prohibits the advertising of action Kane & Lynch: Dead Men – both television, and magazine, and even street – with the wording "violence" and a list of violations of 26 points.
April
As a mother I say and as a woman
Having decided that he can’t achieve anything with legislative measures, the champion of morality Jack Thompson writes a letter to his mother Straus Zelnik, chairman of the board of directors of the corporation Take-Two , publishing GTA 4 : “Mrs. Zelnik, and you know that your son is a bastard that corrupts children?"
May
Do not deceive – you will not sell
Age of Conan , The most brutal Mmorpg of all time, comes out in a box with the treasured Schildik "DirectX 10". A few days after the start of sales, it turns out that there is no support for the new technology in the game.
June
BioWare against the junk
Mass Effect on Windows XP It flies out ten minutes after the introductory video – all. Forums are filled with moans and numerous guidelines for launching and installing. A patch that eliminates the main errors is released only after a few weeks.
June
He does not see the face in his eye
Jack Thompson appears at the list of his case about deprivation of a lawyer license and, not even waiting until they finish reading the charges, unfolds and leaves, telling the judge that she does not have enough authority to consider such a serious issue. Everyone agrees that now deprivation of a license is a matter of time only.
June
In Japan, everything is different
Freshly entered WII FIT collects data on the physical condition of a ten -year -old girl, analyzes it and reports that she is a fat. “Swims, dancing, firmly knocked down and not at all oily!" – her father is indignant. Nintendo reacts immediately: it shakes and declares that the adult program is not yet rushed and requires improvement.
June
Just children's excuses
Atari accuses several game sites at once that they published reviews on Alone in the Dark A few days before the official release of the game, which means they evaluated it according to the pirate version. Articles for a while are removed, but after the release they are posted again – and not with the most pleasant grades.
June
Educational education
Australian rating organization refuses to evaluate Fallout 3 Due to the presence of drugs in the game (and the game without a rating in the country cannot be sold). Bethesda This replies that the game is politically correct to the impossibility: unlike the first two parts, even children cannot be killed there.
August
Nico will teach bad
In the United States, two teenagers explode several cars using Molotov’s cocktail, and in Thailand the guy kills a taxi driver with a knife and steal his car. Both incidents are associated with detrimental influence GTA 4 , and Thai, Singapore, Spanish and Malaysian distributors intend to remove the game from stores.
September
The second time for the same rake
" S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear sky »Repeats the fate of RS-Versia Mass Effect – flies out in Windows, does not persist, hangs. GSC releases the first patch in a day, the second – in a week. They solve the main problems, but it turns out that after installing the conservation of previous versions they do not work, and many have to go through the game two to three times.
September
Prosporet
Evolution simulator SPORE collects cufflinks from creationists – oppositionists of the theory of Darwin, who believe that our complex world could not appear by chance or natural selection. Will Wright, who, a few weeks before the release, said that in no case did he want to offend religious people, no one remembers.
September
The party orders to go to sleep
The Chinese authorities once again tighten control over online games with “inappropriate content” and oblige all operators to equip a mmorpg system that automatically turned off the user from the server after a few hours of game.
October
Who is more cunning in the world?
Protection system SPORE Allows you to install the game no more than three times, and no one warns the user about this: the defense driver is settled secretly. Players are outraged, Electronic Arts increases the number of activations to five, but still receives a lawsuit – for the fact that the protection system is installed on a computer without a user's knowledge.
October
NTV is not on them
Having heeded the complaints of viewers, the authorities of Great Britain take off another game advertising from the TV. This time is not lucky Condemned 2 , In the promotional grip of which one man beats another, and blood splashes fall on the screen.
november
There is no prophet in his fatherland
In the platform Littlebigplanet a song is found with quotes from the Qur'an, and Sony you have to recall the entire circulation and replace the track. Pre -ordering LBP and those who received it earlier than anyone else, players in exorbitants drive their “collectible” versions at online auctions.
november
Jack Thompson jumped
Jack Thompson is still deprived of a lawyer license, but this does not prevent him from criticizing him Saints Row 2 – The non -valid clone of GTA, to which our hero nourishes special feelings.
2009
Not a word in Russian
Two weeks before the release of the shooter Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 A video appears on the Internet in which the player shoots unarmed people at the airport. A small noise begins on the forums, and the publisher, Activision Blizzard , It remains only to confirm: yes, such a mission will be, but it can be missed – and in general the game is not about that. Nevertheless, on the Russian " Gamomir ", Passing less than a week before the release of the game, the main shooter of the year is ready, which has gone to gold! -For some reason they do not show, they only twist the video.
Finally the game comes out, and the most loud scandal in the history of the Russian game industry flares up around it. In the Mission “Not a Word in Russian”, the player and his allies really shoot civilians and policemen at the Moscow Airport Sheremetyevo. Before starting the level, there is a warning that the maintenance of the chapter can be offensive to some players, and it is not necessary to take part in the execution itself, but everyone speaks about the egregious scene, large stories appear even on federal channels.
In Russian localization, Modern Warfare 2 for PC is completely blocked (however, in the pirate version it is available without problems). The press has assumptions that they pressed on Activision, but in the company this option is mentioned: no politics, there is simply no adequate system of age ratings in the country, and the publisher decided not to take risks. It is not possible to turn off the level in console versions, so the prefix version of Modern Warfare 2 in Russia is not officially issued. Company " 1C-SoftKlab ", Which is responsible for the shooter in Russia, asks the game press not to mention the controversial mission in reviews, but many reviews are written before the incident, and with the release of magazines the fire flashes with renewed vigor: it turns out that there is such a mission, and we play it in it For some reason they do not give! The stream of parcels is rushing into the country: enterprising Belarusian, Kazakhstani, Ukrainian gamers buy obscene versions from themselves and resell them to Russia.
In the United States, they do not take any levels of blocking the level, and a few days after the start of sales, the American parents begin to complain that children cannot be played in such games. Activision Blizzard inserts that the level has been added to the game just to show people all the horrors of terrorism, but this is a miserable excuse. In its known gaming censorship, Australia is still published, although the debate about to prevent it from in the country. In Japan, sales also begin with a scandal: the word “remember: not a word in Russian” the localizer translates as “kill them, they are Russians, which distorts the meaning of both mission and plot.
In Russia, news and copyright columns about Modern Warfare 2 appear here and there until the end of 2009. For the holidays about the incident, they forget, when suddenly on January 13, 2010 Valery Seleznev, a member of the Duma Committee on International Affairs and a deputy from the LDPR faction, publishes an open letter on his website, in which he offers the game to the federal list of extremist materials for the propaganda of violence and extremism. According to the deputy, the unfortunate level was shown to him by a growing son. For a couple of days, the media write only that now, at the first, as part of the spring session, the State Duma meeting will be discussed not something there, but video games (!), and suddenly someone notices: wait, but as to the son of a deputy (minor!) came such a cruel game, and even with this level (forbidden!)? Valery Seleznev has nothing to answer this. But the answer is at 1C-Softlab, which after nine days later very competently and clearly, although snapping, explains his position on the issue of extremism to the deputy. The case comes to a dead end.
This whole story makes Russian publishers think that it is time to form their own rating system-until someone did it on top of them. And at the first meeting of the State Duma, as part of the spring session, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, chairman of the LDPR, states that the number of deputies can easily be reduced by half. The gaming press is happy to tell the name of a person who has long been time to put a deputy mandate on the table.
January
Estallo against everyone
In news ribbons, the name of the American Eric Estallo, who methodically files claims against game publishers, begins to flicker in newsletters.
Here it requires millions with Sony , the account blocked his PlayStation Network. Here is a complaint about Microsoft : Xbox 360 issued a red ring of death, and the company, of course, is to blame. Here is a claim to Nintendo , which turned off the unofficial channel Homebrew Channel on WII. Finally, here's a claim to ActivisionBlizzard : creators World of Warcraft consciously deceive the players, deliberately reducing the pace of quests and pulling more money out of people. To restore justice, Eric needs $ 1 million – and he expects to sue it at Blizzard.
For the time being, history is very mixed by the entire game audience – it does not yet find out that Eric suffers from depression, fear of open spaces and a whole bouquet of mental ailments. Video games for Estallo are the only outlet, and the companies playing against the rules are malicious pests and the first enemies.
Erica is not lucky in the courts, but he soon finds another lesson: he starts his own website, on which he greets everyone with the words “Hello, I am Eric, and this was written about me in the news”. On the site there is a section of reviews, a board of ads, voting for the game of the year, virtual Valentine for Felicia Day, singer of the sitcom The Guild , and the "column of Soviets", where Estallo asks visitors to ask him questions about anything.
During 2009, Estallo was filing several more lawsuits, including the resource administration Itesources.Co.Za , who does not allow him to communicate with his former girl working on the site. And then in February 2010, he suddenly closes his website, calls out all the claims, reports that he solved all the problems, and promises not to sue with anyone, because doctors do not recommend him.
February
Dr. Kavashima sends hello
Having tested the game on 67 students Brain Training For Nintendo DS , supposedly developing and rejuvenating brain, French professor Alan Lieri proves that she does not develop anything and does not rejuvenate. Representatives Nintendo they say that they never talked about anything like that.
March
You don't have Amsterdam here
With the wording "Your behavior offended someone" Microsoft Blows on the network Xbox Live a certain Teresa, which indicated in its profile sexual orientation – lesbian.
March
Don't get it to anyone
A sixty -two -year -old Englishman with scissors at the ready is packed on a spouse and slam her to death. The criminal is sentenced to life imprisonment. The court establishes that the motive of the murder is the excessive love of the wife to PlayStation 3.
March
Not only Mario
Nintendo First releases on WII Game with the rating "18+"-black-and-scarlet slasher Madworld. The public converges that the reputation of WII as a family console is hopelessly damaged.
March
The dog is sorry
Massachusetts school of animal protection sends to Activision open letter with a request to disconnect in Callof Duty: World Atward the shooting of dogs, as they are killed there for fun. Publisher of the game Activision Blizzard Prefers to freeze.
April
Softly sat down
Creators of a torrent tracker The Pirate Bay found guilty of copyright violations and sentenced to a year of prison and a fine of $ 3.5 million. The sympathizers will picket the court building, the convicts appeal, the tracker continues to work, and rumors appear on the Internet that they are already coming not only for server owners, but also for users.
May
You will answer for Duke
Due to the lack of financing, it closes 3D Realms , creating Duke Nukem Forever , And the publisher Take-Two suits the developer to the court, demanding to return the $ 12 million spent on the development. The founder of 3D Realms objects: he himself invested $ 20 million in the game, the team is alive, and they will still release Duke. The game press makes bets whether 3D Realms will have time to manage until the end of the world.
May
Denigrated
Game portal Eurogamer.Com publishes a review of the hardcore PVP-oriented MMORPG DarkFall , calls the game Darkfail and evaluates it at 2/10. In response to this, the producer Darkfall writes that the reviewer spent only two hours on the server, and those in the editor of the characters. "Euroacer" refers ("not two, but nine!"), Argues, as a result, buys his own account and writes a new review, setting 4/10. The game gets driving Double Darkfail.
June
There is enough for all places in hell
Electronic Arts orders an action viral advertising campaign Dante’s Inferno (Twenty people will lazily picket the game, expressing claims to its religious content) and receives a “shameful anti -Christian”.
June
This is also a job
The Chinese government finds that botume and virtual gold mining are undermining the economy of the real world, and prohibits the exchange of intra -game currency for real money. The game press is joking that now the level of unemployment will be great in the country.
June
Store money in galactic banks
Twenty -seven -year -old Australian Richard, head of the financial corporation in Eve Online , robs its own bank, resells the in -game currency and helps out $ 5100 in green presidents. SSR Bends an enterprising businessman (and not at all for the robbery of the bank, but for trading in the black market), but refuses to return the money to the players.
July
Local conflict
Blizzard reports that Starcraft 2 will not support the game on a local network, and more than 30 thousand players sign a petition with a request to add a “locker” nevertheless. Blizzard remains adamant to the end.
July
Be keen up at the post
Three guards who served at the atomic weapon production plant in Tenness, are fired for violating the regime of the enterprise: friends wanted to have fun and brought PSP to work.
August
Flapped
The girl-stand-up girl Ila, who worked with Electronic Arts At the festival Comic-Con , He declares on the forum that EA considers all players “socio-traffic virgins” because he encourages them to hug with exhibition models. EA apologizes on the Twitter blog, but in fact it does not really repent.
2010
Battle for capital
In mid -January Activision Blizzard announces that the income from the shooter sales Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Passed in one billion dollars. The developers of such a hit should be worn in their hands, but everything turns out differently: around the studio that created the game Infinity Ward A deafening scandal is erupted.
On March 1, Activision Blizzard publishes a document in which, in particular, it is noted that “for non -compliance with the terms of the contract and violation of subordination, two high -ranking employees of the Infinity Ward studio will be dismissed”. On the same day, the company's office of Infinity Ward Vincer Zampella and Jason Vesta and representatives of Activision Blizzard, after which West and Zampella quickly disappear, and a group of softer guys appear in the office.
On the night of the first to the second of March, Jason West indicates in his profile on the social network Linkedin , that in Infinity Ward it doesn't work anymore.
On March of March, the head of Activision Bobby Kotik meets the leaders of Infinity Ward and tells them about the resignation of Vesta and Zampella. Later he holds a second meeting, this time with all the employees of the studio, and assures them that Infinity Ward is still responsible for the franchise of Call of Duty. At the same time, Activision reports that its other studio, Sledgehammer Games , Now it will develop the "adventure" version of the shooter.
Zampella, meanwhile, also updates his profile in Linkedin, indicating that for him the Activision Blizzard is no longer an employer.
On March 3, representatives of Activision Blizzard assure the journalists that everything is regularly, Infinity Ward will continue to work on Call of Duty and the next series game will certainly appear in 2010, but everyone understands that this is not about Modern Warfare 3 , And about the game from Treyarch.
On March fourth, West and Zampella are filed on Activision Blizzard to the court. According to disgraced bosses, the publisher decided to save on them: the top managers were laid for considerable interest on sales of Modern Warfare 2, but no payments were made either after the release of the game or even when dismissal was made. In addition, West and Zampella are accused of the publishing house of violation of the contract and present the rights to the brand Modern Warfare. Activision Blizzard calls these claims meaningless and on April ninth makes up oncoming accusations: they say, West and Zampella conduct secret negotiations with one of its main competitors, intend to create their own studio and want to use the property of Activision Blizzard for personal purposes. Lawyer Vesta and Zampella on the same day replies that all this is an “outrageous lie”. From Infinity Ward, meanwhile, employees begin to leave.
April on April, it becomes known that West and Zampella really form a new studio, Respawn Entertainment , and are looking for financing from the publisher Electronic Arts (which is really considered the main competitor Activision Blizzard).
On the https://sister-site.org/betti/ twenty -seventh of April 38 Infinity Ward employees are sued the Activision Blizzard and demand to recover from company up to $ 125 million – that is, the money that has not been paid for work on Modern Warfare 2. The developers say that the publisher does not pay them out of fear that they will receive their bonuses and leave the studio, quitting the development of Modern Warfare 3.
By May, Infinity Ward has already left 46 people, including people who held key positions while working on Modern Warfare 2. In early July, it becomes known that 38 of these 46 resets work in Respawn Entertainment for Vesta and Zamplepella, who, according to rumors, have been making their response Call of Duty since the end of spring.
Hearing on Vesta and Zampella against Activision Blizzard and Activision Blizzard against Vesta and Zampella are appointed on May 23, 2011. The game press is waiting for the announcement from Respawn Entertainment and tirelessly recalls how at the beginning of the two thousandth West and Zampella fled from Electronic Arts, for which they made Medal of Honor: Allied Assault , To the Activision Blizzard to develop your Medal of Honor response called Call of Duty.
January
Dismemberment – yes
Australia authorities, famous for their cool disposition and intolerance to cruel games, are first forbidden, and then they unexpectedly allowed to publish in the country Aliens vs. Predator – With all its dismemberment and decaliters of blood.
At first everything goes on a hidden: aliens vs. Predator falls into the clutches of Australian censors, they habitually burst with their hands and traditionally offer developers to make a kangaroo a special, sweet and pleasant eye version for the country. In this place, decent companies should nod knowingly, but the creators of AVP suddenly announce that “Aliens vs. Predator is based on cult films. We created a game corresponding to the primary sources. She is for adults, she is bloody and terrible – this was our plan. And we are not going to release a “sterile” version specifically for territories where the authorities believe that adults are not able to choose entertainment for themselves ”. Here, Australian censors should stand in a pose, but they suddenly begin to be interested in the population: there are such tough games that we do with them? In response, the Australians fall asleep with angry letters-and the AVP unexpectedly, unexpectedly issue the rating "15+".
January
You will come home – you are sitting there
Wives of employees Rockstar San Diego , working on Red Dead Redemption , publish an open letter on the blog, in which they complain about the capitalist-employer. Women who signed as “selflessly devoted spouses of developers” claim that since March 2009 their husbands have been working 12-16 hours a day for six days a week without any salary increase, and the end-deck this outrages is not visible. Rockstar does not respond to the press requests, but there is no doubt that Red Dead Redemption will receive several sockets for the best game of the year.
February
A month came out of the fog
Italian teenager wounds his father with a knife, who does not respond well to the skill of his game in FIFA 09. Happy family spends the evening at home: mother turns in the kitchen, the son plays in the living room. Father passes by, notes that the person living in the country Marco Materezzi and Dzhanluji Buffon could actually drive the ball and better and turns off the TV. The son turns around, goes to his mother in the kitchen – and after a couple of minutes he returns to her with a bloodied knife. The wound is not fatal, but the woe-football player is taken under arrest.
March
McGro plus
American TV presenter and psychologist Phil McGro tells viewers about game addiction – for example, what you thought, the casual simulator of the farmer Farmville , And by no means World of Warcraft! McGro patient drives households with tricks due to the monitor (for example, disconnects the router) to plant more beings and carrots, and the host mercilessly reports to her: “You suffer from an absurd addiction to an absurd computer game that prevents you from being a mother”.
March
Down with the team spirit
Life -prisoner Kevin T. Singer suits the court, demanding that he be allowed to play in a desktop RPG in the cell Dungeons & Dragons. The court objects: Games similar to D&D “promote actions in gangs”, and in prisons such huts are not supposed to be kept. A petition appears on the Internet in the name of Barack Obama, in which 80 sympathizers of the prisoners of the players ask Mr. President to send the case to revise and brighten up the rest of his sinful life.
March
It is better to be a pirate
The radical Islamist organization Hezb Al-Islam, acting in Somalia, orders to close all the Internet cafes and stop the distribution of video games in the territory subject to it. The ban is explained by the fact that video games undermine the traditions and cultural foundations of the country.
April
Mass Effect bread and spectacles
Past Mass Effect 2 Players complain that the second part is no more erotic than the first and that the developers made the heroes make love in clothes, frightened by attacks from rating associations and the media. BioWare He answers rudely, but intelligibly: “You can only laugh at how many adult men reflect on a lack of nudity, considering this a sign of self -censorship. We are also adults here and have the right to decide whether to include or not include scenes of carnal love and striptease in the game. Without any look at what you say about this, Fox News, the government or miracle-Clown banks ".
July
Down with deanonymization!
Blizzard Changes forum policy: now all players Starcraft 2 And World of Warcraft should post messages under their real names and surnames. “This will allow us to form a more meaningful gaming community,” the developers explain. Players react differently: “I will have to quit the job, because the top manager playing Wow is nonsense!"," Now everyone will know that I am not a man, and I will be kicked out of the guild!"," We will have to remove all their old posts – suddenly chauvinists, or feminists, or pedophiles, or be scared to think about who else?".
Four days take place in walls and debate, and Blizzard admits that this was probably not the smartest solution.
July
Not combat losses
In two weeks of July Steam , Digital distribution service of the company Valve , mistakenly banks 12,000 people who played in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Horrified, the company shakes and gives everyone two copies Left 4 Dead 2 – One for yourself, the other for a friend.
August
Taliban, show your Taliban
Restored Medal of Honor , The only modern game about the Afghan company NATO (which, recall, still continues without visible success), will willy-nilly causes a response of the warring countries.
The first game is noticed by the Minister of Defense of Great Britain Liam Fox, outraged that the Medal of Honor multiplayer can play for the militants of the Taliban movement, and therefore kill British soldiers. Publisher, Electronic Arts , reacts to this calmly – they say, if the Taliban exists in the real world, then in the game from this fact there is no way. But the pressure only intensifies: for the same reasons, the game is condemned by the ministers of the defense of Canada and Denmark (the latter also calls it "bad taste") – countries whose soldiers are also fighting in Afghanistan. And the unknown Karin Meredith, the mother of the deceased in Iraq (!) the American soldier calls the game "disrespectful" to the memory of her son and other dead soldiers.
As a result, the EA gives and renames the game Taliban into uncertain “enemy forces”, but benefits from black PR: the game attracts close attention of the public and is sold by a circulation of more than three million copies.
September
Stole, drank, in jail
Unsuable protection PlayStation 3 finally hacked, and a set of young hacker called PS3 jailbreak gets on the Internet. Sony It requires prohibiting the distribution of flash drives with a hack recorded on them, suits sellers, develops new versions of firmware that prevents the pirate, and banks the owners of already broken consoles. Hackers, however, do not give up positions: they hack PS3 using mobile phones (!) and learn to bypass the tricks of new firmware.
October
A gloomy farm
The twenty-two-year-old Gore Mamash from the city of Jacksonville, in the American Florida, kills her three-month-old child, who prevented her from playing in a loud cry Farmville – Popular casual game for Facebook (known in Russia thanks to the local clone " Happy farmer "). The girl tells the lawyers that, tired of listening to crying, she smoked a cigarette and decided to shake the child. At the same time, she admits that "she could slightly hit his head when swaying". Under American laws, such a specific concern for children is called murder and can send a girl to places where she will never be able to play her beloved Farmville.
november
Either I, or Games!
The British tabloid Daily Mail (in terms of yellowness is such a "mother -in -law" of the vague albion) is pretended to captain obviousness and writes that video games are harmful to relations: after interviewing one and a half thousand players, the editors found out that almost half of the girls are jealous of their guys to Xbox 360 , PlayStation 3 And even WII , which they devote more time than ladies of the heart.
Five percent of the players admit that video games cost them a rupture of relations, and dissatisfied, who did not understand anything in games (or still in men?) Women send letters to the editors of Daily Mail with the words: “My boyfriend depends on the game Call of Duty: Black Ops. He spends all his time on her – instead of talking to me more often!"The scream of the soul ends something like this:“ If you want attention, meet a guy who does not play video games!»Some people notice that the fathers and grandfathers of the aforementioned players in Call of Duty spent exactly the same amount of time lying with a can of beer in front of the TV, which hardly made them more tender and sociable.
At the end of the article, the newspaper publishes a list of games that harm the relationship most. At the top, there are exclusively singlePleler projects – Call of Duty , GTA , Football Manager , FIFA , Gran Turismo And Super Mario Bros. The main suspect by name World of Warcraft Only the fourteenth line takes public surprise – perhaps because they often play together.
December
Everything is good that ends well
The Australian government issues an application that states that cruel games do not harm. The authorities were convinced of this only after a serious study, during which it was established that there was a “insignificant relationship between cruel video games and aggressive behavior”, but no evidence was found that cruel video games have a more significant impact on people than cruel films or Musical clips. As a result, the Minister of Internal Affairs of Australia recognizes his own mistakes and speaks in support of the new age rating – “18+”.
