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Joystick Division's Rich Shivener argues that it's time for a commercial video game to offer a rich narrative on the 9/11 atrocities and what our country has done in their wake. Other media have been doing just that for the last 10 years.
"Breach is a downloadable first person shooter that features an “active cover system” and a level of destruction not seen in any other game. With the help of some real life experienced operatives, Breach is aiming to give gamers a sense of what it’s like to be in a Black Ops situation with ultra realistic weapons and destruction."
"Atomic Games' controversial shooter Six Days in Fallujah is ready to roll out.
A source close to the game's development confirmed to IGN this morning the title is still planned for release, though no expected release date or publisher was named.
"I can promise you that game is still coming out and it is finished," the source said."
Gamer Chris White offers his take on Daniel Floyd's "Video Games and Facing Controversy" from his lecture series. Books, film, and fine art can tackle sensitive and mature themes, but when video games try it, society goes up in arms.
The 'good news' episode of The Bender. Mostly for us, but still good news. Lots of ground covered, including a little touching of the "games as art debate", James taking on the "10 day detox" of video games, and much more. Grab us/stream through iTunes or download the mp3 here
Uh-oh. When Konami cut its funding for Six Days, there were reports of layoffs in Atomic Games, but Atomic stated that development would continue with a smaller team of developers, using funding from sister company Destineer. But is that true? Industry Gamers has received word from an anonymous source that of the initial team of 75, less than a dozen are left, and they'll be gone soon, too. Will Six Days in Fallujah ever see the light of day?
"Controversy in videogames is not an unusual turn-of-events. As with any form of media, there will be those who decide it’s within their right, or perhaps even directly their goal, to push the boundaries of what is accepted in terms of sex, violence and profanity. But there are two games from a single publisher that have recently been grabbing headlines, and for two very different reasons."
"Konami seems to think that SAW as a game, is far less harmful to mainstream gaming than Six Days in Fallujah. In which case I will readily ask how surfing through a man’s intestines for a key to a door is somehow less offensive than reliving six days of a soldier’s life in the Iraq war?"
Ah, Fox News. From the Mass Effect debacle to the Guitar Hero attack, they have certainly caused their fair share of controversy amongst the gaming community in recent years.
So it comes as a surprise when they discussed the controverisial game Six Days In Fallujah almost reasonably. Almost.
"Despite these setbacks, Atomic boss Peter Tamte remains determined to finish the $US20 million project with alternate funding.
"We have a lot of people who are interested in the project," Mr Tamte told Newsweek.
"But I'll feel better when we sign something and the cheques start coming.""
"I’ve been one to avoid the whole Six Days in Fallujah argument, but this is depressing news. Here was a golden opportunity to convey the harrowing, nerve-racking events that the men of the 3rd Battalion 1st Marines went through during the battle for Fallujah. This was a prime chance to tell the story of what happened from the perspective of those who were there, instead of through the voices of dipshit protesters that infect the nightly news programs.
But no. You had to cave to the outside..."
"The news broke out as a Konami spokeperson said that the big-time publisher had received many complaints via email and phone, and therefore has decided not to sell it. However this doesn’t mean we have seen the last of the game, the developer could just as easilly find another publisher to buy it, and hopefully they will. If you have games based strictly around the first and second world war in which millions upon millions of people died, why can’t we now create one based on the Iraq war?"
""It appears that the controversy surrounding the announcement of Konami’s latest project, Six Days in Fallujah, a game about the war in Iraq, has changed things a bit inside the company who is now unsure if it would be good to publish the title in Europe. And if they don’t because of the protests, it’s clearly a huge loss for the gaming world, the freedom of speech and everything that has a sense in this world…""
OXCGN continues the investigation of the game being published by Konami and developed by Atomic Games, Six Days In Fallujah. A game set in the small town in Iraq during the 2004 confrontation.
The video is with Peter Tamte, President of Atomic Games discussing the principles behind the game, and the all new game engine required for the game in order for it to represent the gameplay required by the Marines. You have to admire the vets for taking this one by the horns and running with it.
OXCGN's resident historian looks at the implications of the newly announced game from KONAMI, Six Days In Fullujah. A game based on actual events that happen in Iraq in 2004.
Should the game be built, why is it needed, what could happen when and if it is released in 2010. This is a game based on actual events in 2004, however, it was instigated not by a game company, but soldiers who had returned from service and wanted to tell the horrific story via a game simulation style gameplay.
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