A professional video gamer from Baltimore is suspected of killing at least two people and wounded several others on Sunday when he opened fire at a video game tournament that was being streamed online from a restaurant in Jacksonville, Florida, police said. David Katz, 24, of Baltimore then turned the gun on himself. Jacksonville Sheriff…
Since a 1998 censorship ruling on video games, German gamers have played World War II-themed titles like “Call of Duty” without a swastika in sight. That may soon change. The Telegraph reports that the German video games industry body in charge of regulating content, the Entertainment Software Self-Regulation Body — known as the USK —…
The latest Call of Duty video game, centered on World War II, barely mentions the Holocaust or Jews, Mashable reported. The only reference to the Holocaust is during a 38-second cutscene in which the narrator talks about seeing things that “stayed with me forever.” “I thought I knew what cruelty was; I didn’t know anything,”…
A new video game that lets you kill Hitler and his hordes of Nazi robots was forced by German law to shave Hitler’s infamous mustache for the game’s German version. While the English-language version of Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, are replete with Nazi imagery and language, German law required the game’s makers to scrub…
Earlier in the month, British game design firm Ustwo Games, released the follow up to 2014’s wildly successful phone and tablet game Monument Valley. For the uninitiated, Monument Valley is a sort of puzzle game – you move your character around an isometric MC Escher like structure, manipulating levers and rotating towers, in order to reach…
Promotions for the video game “Call of Duty: World War II,” scheduled for release in November, have stressed the game’s historical accuracy. But something is missing from the trailer -– swastikas. A new trailer for the game, unveiled at the the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, showed Nazi paraphernalia replaced with the Schwarzes Kreuz,…
There is an entire video game subculture dedicated to neo-Nazi fantasies — including battling legions of Jews with yellow stars on their uniforms. These are games made “by and for neo-Nazis,” Mic.com reports. For example, there is “Zog’s Nightmare,” “one of the most violent, anti-Semitic titles ever released.” “Zog” is an acronym for “Zionist-occupied government,”…
The latest installment of the best-selling video game franchise “Call of Duty” will depict the Holocaust. “We didn’t want to shy away from history. We wanted to be very respectful of it,” the game’s senior creative director, Bret Robbins, said in an interview with Mashable last week. “Some very, very dark things happened during this…
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