Tag: violence

  • Solving America’s Police Problem with Door Kickers: Action Squad

    Solving America’s Police Problem with Door Kickers: Action Squad

    America’s police are having a hard time with their image at the moment. What with them breaking into other peoples homes and shooting them dead, or just beating people in Waffle Houses. It seems that the US police force can’t go too long without embarrassing itself. Because of this, we here at New Normative think…

  • Uzbekistan Ban Lends New Angle to Violent Video Games Debate

    Uzbekistan Ban Lends New Angle to Violent Video Games Debate

    It seems that wherever video games travel, controversy inevitably follows. The central Asian nation of Uzbekistan has officially banned 34 games from import and distribution, citing the violent and pornographic content that the games appear to promote. The list itself is a bit of an oddity; it contains the usual suspects such as Grand Theft…

  • Safe Spaces For Dark Tasks

    Safe Spaces For Dark Tasks

    Videogames let us do some pretty fucked up things. Sometimes that’s part of their appeal, after all nobody played Postal for its gripping narrative. It was a rampage murder sim that garnered enough of an audience that it was far from the first or last of its kind. Videogames never made us subversive and terrible,…