The White House meeting between president Trump, Republican lawmakers, and members and critics of the videogame industry that took place yesterday opened with a “greatest hits” reel of videogame violence, featuring clips from the Call of Duty and Fallout series, Sniper Elite 4, The Evil Within, and others. It was, predictably, very graphic, although nothing that most of us haven’t seen before. (It also didn’t show Sub-Zero ripping somebody’s spine out, which I think is a pretty serious oversight.) No big deal, then—but it did elicit a surprising reaction from Warren Spector, one of the industry’s best-known figures. Spector acknowledged in followup tweets that Deus Ex, a game famous for its breadth of player agency, allowed the killing of children, but said that he hoped players were “repulsed” by it. “And, easy for me to say, but true: I’m ashamed of the kid-killing possibility and wouldn’t do it again. Can’t promise, but I don’t think I’ll ever make another game where you can kill virtual people at all,” he wrote. That may be a stretch—Spector is currently working on System Shock 3, and you can bet there will be some rough stuff there—but he said that his games don’t… Read full this story
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