Entertaining Violence

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Southern Cuisine - Penny Arcade

Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.

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The Last of Us 2 epitomizes one of gaming’s longest debates

Oh no, I broke the blood oath and wrote about ‘ludonarrative dissonance’

The Last of Us Part 2 is the culmination of this decade of big-budget games interrogating dissonance. Naughty Dog, the creators of Uncharted, have finally bridged the gap between story and action, dragging the story kicking and screaming and gurgling on its own blood to align with what you actually do in their games: kill people. The result is surreal, an expensive narrative experiment depicting what would actually happen if a real human being behaved like a video game character.

Ellie can’t change. She can’t change because AAA games can’t change. Let’s say Ellie learns her lesson, that violence begets violence. That to save the world and herself, she must put down the gun. What would she even do? Literally, what would a AAA game even allow for her to do? AAA game design is built and marketed around killing.

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Man of Medan’s creators hold ‘death meetings’ to find the best way to kill characters

‘We have to kill people in really entertaining ways’

"It’s s a real big problem because killing people — it’s easy to just kill people,” says game director Tom Heaton. ‘We have to kill people in really entertaining ways."

— but the team does have limits to what they’ll include. “We wouldn’t show really gory stuff,” Heaton says. “But we might pull the camera away at the last minute. The other thing we’d stay away from is anything coercive or things like that.”

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“The most provocative thing about the meeting may have been the presentation of an 88-second reel of footage from violent video games. It contains footage from M-rated games such as Wolfenstein, Fallout 4, and Call of Duty, including the notorious No Russian mission that allowed players to witness or participate in a massacre of civilians at an airport. The video is currently hosted on the White House’s YouTube page, unlisted. The clips appear to be ripped from YouTubers’ footage of the game as well as from the gaming outlet Giant Bomb.”

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The people have spoken, and they want more R-rated superhero movies

The people have spoken: America’s comic book movies need more blood, sex, and swears.

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Here’s the funny thing: When I took this on everything I’ve done was an R-rated comedy. I got so many emails from moms saying, ‘I just hope you can make this family-friendly like the original movie.’ I was like, wait a minute! They say ‘shit’ constantly, there’s a blowjob scene, they smoke endlessly…

‘Ghostbusters’ Director Paul Feig on the Film’s Misogynistic Trolls: ‘It’s Not for All These Guys!’ (via merlin)

As long as there is no violence, everything’s OK.

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A Brief History of Gore [in Video Games]

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Game of Thrones is the Perfect Example of Television's Huge Problem with Death

The gimmick isn't working anymore

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'Borderlands' Movie Taps 'Section 6' Writer to Pen Script (Exclusive)

Aaron Berg will pen the video game adaptation for Lionsgate.

Sources say it's expected to be an edgy, R-rated take on the material.

Based on my time playing Borderlands 2, and Tales from the Borderlands, I would say that this is not an "R-rated take", but just a direct translation.

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100 Greatest One-Liners: After The Kill

And before

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Virtual reality can make guns 'real,' and that's a bit terrifying

A sandbox is a place to play, and that can feel strange when the toys are firearms

This is just the beginning of awkward things VR will bring us as entertainment experiences.

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Hitman trailer forces you to decide who dies: Gary Cole or Gary Busey

The new Hitman game has hit consoles (well part of it anyway), and in the run up to get the word out, developer IO Interactive has decided to put the fates of two men’s lives in the crosshairs.

Vote on a (fictional) murder.

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Pieces embodies the vulgar pleasures of exploitation horror

Outside of Sleepaway Camp, there aren’t many other horror movies that intersperse their ongoing kill counts with such daffy personality.

AV Club review by Alex McCown

Who doesn’t love watching scantily clad women having their body parts sawed off? Lots of people, really: In its simplest form, horror is grotesque emotional allegory, taking the usual beats of drama (Going through a breakup feels like having your heart ripped out!) and cutting right to the icky stuff (Oh God, someone’s heart is literally being ripped out!). What’s commonly referred to as “exploitation” horror does one better: Dispensing with anything not essential to the primal concepts of sex and violence, it gleefully leads the viewer straight into the Manichean world of murderers and nymphos, where you’re either killing or being killed—or getting naked, in which case you’re probably halfway to the second option already. The appeal, as with anything, lies in the execution (or executions, really), and in the world of crazy, bloody mayhem, 1982’s Pieces remains an under-seen treasure.