Hard News 07/30/09

[GrantFerSure]

What would be more racist if there was no black people in it.. or.. if there was but they had been dressed up to look like the scenery. But c'mon to far. Its worse that PETA with their obsession with games and animal cruelty. Soon their gonna start smashing Nintendo DS's to release the trapped nintendogs!!!

[blade004]

@GrantFerSure There was a game on the Amiga called Capital Punishment made in about 1996 which had a female fighter her breasts and nipples popping out of her outfit (you can do a search for the game on YouTube) but if you released that game today you would have all the feminists complaining and having it censored. There were many examples during the 80's and early 90's when were similar things on some of the alternate gaming systems of that time and no one cared! Laws today are insane.

[blade004]

@GrantFerSure Do a YouTube search for -: Capital Punishment - Amiga Game

Go to 1:05 in the video and check out the young vixen with her ample assets ;) 

[GrantFerSure]

@blade004 Haha brilliant example. Just goes to show how much people nowadays just want to blame games for todays society. Or just to be heard and get praised for fighting the good fight. You see it everyday compairing old films that would be PGs to films they pass off now. A PG back then would be a 12 or 12A now. Its rediculous. I dont really see it getting any better in the future either.

[chuckie32598]

imagen micky with guns a mohawk smoking sergerits and gory gameplay

[164dragonmaster]

holy crap that epic mickey is going to be a wierd one O.o... a scary mickey game..well atleast it wont be a kids game

[WillisDCade]

LAMO it was a white co worker that said it waas rasict....thats unexpected

[ishmaboy]

OMG NO COMMENTS IN 5 DAYS!!!!1111q11!!!1!1! wtf

[SandRunneR91]

There goes the same thing with L4D2 as it was with RE5... Ohhh... so when you kill a thousand White/Caucasian zombies everything is fine, but when you kill a Black one... o_O "Oh! You Racist!"

I am sick and tired of such idiotism...

[KesorodaBlk]

Epic Mickey etter not be anything like Kingdom Hearts! >:D

Bring back the darkness from "Fantasia 2000" and bitchslap this game with it so that there's no hint of any "directed at children" crap that people are sick of seeing.

I'm not saying, "make it a Fallout 3", but just keep it off the same shelf as Spyro and Dora the Explorer this time, Disney, and maybe folks will take you seriously for once. (Mickey's been overshadowed by cruddy teens! It's about time he got his own damn game!)

[Thatnamenobodytook]

A game has a black person in it... auto racist? what if a game had NO black people in it, another racist game? Its funny that if its ANY other race, nobody complains... no spanish, no russians, no germans, but as soon as it hits africa, BAM racist! OMG NO~

[BXXIII]

epic mickey looks cool

[baluvxaluv]

TEH CAKE IS A LIEE!!!!

[Mystification58]

Sign here if you think that every race or nationality deserves the potential to be zombified, shot at, & blown apart as equals!!!!!

[iloveny22]

Did you just say Destin-g?

[superclayface2]

what going on with tekken6

[SilverJigProductions]

Dude.. I don't care about what cities are in Left 4 Dead 2.. I just wanna play it! =D

[gammerguy1995]

cool a update for home.

who care's!!!

the home theatre is broken in my ps3.

fuck home!!!!

[Nintendoprogamer]

how is it racist? so if its all white zombies thats not racist? and if it took place in new york that'd be more sensitive? like come on, we live in 2009, racisim shouldnt be called with a drop of a hat

[SilverJigProductions]

Hahaha, yeah I was just thinking.. if all the zombies where white then people would yell racism cuz there aren't any black ones.. this makes NO sense to me.. xD

[lozano15515]

lol thats so true

[neeeork]

Lol, snow lorris.

[TimmzyGuy27]

why cant black people be zombies, i think it would be racist to white people if every zombie were white

[plasticfelinerodent]

Wow...they said resident evil 5 was racist too, and in that game as well, half of the main characters (including Sheva and Josh) were black.

[EA0825]

ALSO How are they gonna find a new Mickey Mouse voice more awesome than the one that died!!

Oh well i least i can hear the original voice one last time in the Kingdom Hearts Ds game

[EA0825]

Finally a Decent Mickey Game!!!

Unlike that "Magic Mirror-thing" game they had for the Gamecube

[pmastershake210]

Wow that mickey game looks like the shit!

[candygirl0406]

I'm so sick of hearing about Katrina and all of that shit. It's like New Orleans is supposed to be a sacred city, but it's the murder capital of the world. They need to get the eff over it...

[speedy2davey]

Also the place only had a few things going for it, like the blues. It also wasn't a very pretty place BEFORE katrina hit anyway.

[ZOMS15]

Wow!

Resident Evil 5 is accused of racism

Left4Dead 2 is accused of racism

Next is Dead Rising 2!

I guess zombie games are only cool if they get accused of something...

[FatNinjaVideos]

Plants VS Zombies,racism against plants.

[ZOMS15]

Haha yeah!

[badman550]

hahaha, even plants didn't survive from racism xD

[Kilination]

Epic Mickey will be the best game with Disney's name on it since Kingdom Hearts.

[cardinalsofaz]

left 4 dead 2 is not racist how are you gonna go around usa with zombies and not see a black guy?wow 4real that blog is stupid as fuck!

[Hersheys79]

if it is gonna be called epic mickey I hope the game is rated T with blood and bad language

[Falcovsleon21]

Even if it's not, it's still going to be scary as hell. (Again, that Lovecraftian inspired Disney character chimera blob thing I mentioned earlier. God I still can't get over that)

[mmaltaric]

haha 1:20 can someone tell me what's the name of that video on youtube?

[HairyManLegs]

FUCK BLACK PEOPLE always saying everything racist shiittt go fucking live in another planet,if your so special

[jjoleigh]

HAHAHA thats awesome!!

Ha, watch this video its weird. "Silver Spring Team 3"

[efrain1760]

LoL

[blufighter1]

2:37 PAINT THINNER!?!?!?!?!

Paint thinner may be little bit to far.

[Falcovsleon21]

Oh no. The paint thinner is tame compared to that Lovecraftian monster made up of Disney character parts. ::shudder:: I pray to god that thing is really just composed of broken down animatronics or something.

[morgangamer22]

nice video guys

[N64revews]

we already went through this racist shit with resident evil 5?!

[whiteer]

fuck that movie!

[RetroGamer3]

Videos look good when you have a budget.

[Th3SP1C]

SOMEONE tell why is it racist when you Put a African American zombie in a game but NOT when you put a WHITE guy zombie people r so fuckin stupid

[magmablock]

Some people just look for things to complain about

[159qbn]

All I want is another Kingdom Hearts! why can't they just hurry it the hell up!

[stigvindy]

50,000 people refusing to buy left 4 dead 2 means 50,000 less annoying team mates online.

Originally Destin's joke from a previous episode of Hard News.

[metalmagician333]

wow wtf is wrong with people.... so every zombie in a game is supposed to be white or what? if you ask me, That is more racist. and think about it, if there was an actual zombie attack, zombies wouldnt give a flying fuck if you were white or black or asian or mexican, they would just turn you into zombies. zombies arent racist >.>

as for the mickey part, Epic. :D

[Evildood89]

yay, destin hates kingdom hearts like me, I´m finally not alone

[thaikwon]

where does he say that?? i watched the entire video without hearing him say it XD besids kingdom hearts is a good game

[tisokan]

He didnt say he hated it. All he said is we wont know when it comes out which is true squareenix does that all the time they make a game then you never know when its coming out XD.

[youngfresh514]

the sony home service carcters look like maple story dudes its the big heads lol

[voidmaster45]

That Mickey thing looked Epic indeed. and this is coming from a guy who has nothing but blind rage for the Disney corporation.

[mchapra]

Um...... THERE ZOMBIES

[dorrato]

what the hell was that monkey rat gerbil thing????????????

I want one

[Zhyard]

Hell yea! Everything's better in steampunk.

Ok, maybe converting something from cyberpunk into steampunk wouldn't work so well, but overall everything is better in steampunk.

Actually. If you (current reader) can think of something that wouldn't become cooler please tell me. I can't think of anything.

[KAPTAINmORGANnWo4eva]

Fallout.

[armanrules2poopstash]

EPIC MICKEY! XD

[DJNow1216]

EPIC MICKEY!!! KH FTW!!!

[koolgool]

Yeah, the first Left 4 Dead was racist against white people. I mean, what the freak? They had a black guy shooting white zombies.

[SteelKiller75]

dude when u see a zombie do want it to eat ur or do u want to kill it.

[koolgool]

I was being sarcastic, but whatever.

[MattTheSpratt]

So what the blogger is suggesting is that zombies can't be black?

Hypocrisy, I tells yah.

[tboy15]

EPIC MICKEY WAHAHAHAHAHA

[NeoSef]

Warren Specter working on a Mickey Mouse game that looks visually brilliant? Sign me up!

[SaitekGamer]

Jesus.... left 4 dead2 is never gonna be realesed if people are so fucked up and complaining about EVERYTHING.. damnit.. i really wanna play the game, but i guess that is never gonna happend because people are to fucking Paranoid about everything..

IDIOTS!

[SignusMelko]

Well the racism shit is just stupid. Complaining about all the other things though is justified. There's a good reason 50 thousand people are in the boycott.

[SteelKiller75]

i agree this racism bullshit is going out of hand. When u put an African American in a game people think ur racist.

[apenneukende]

I think everybody who thinks res 5 is rasist you needs a shot in the knees

[AnimeMan127]

HOLY CRAP! That Mickey game looks freak'n AWESOME!!

[ChuckRage123]

OH. MY. GOD. Epic Mickey looks AWESOME!

[L1nKo64]

Sick of people calling games racist< mucho on Resi 5?

GTFO AND GROW UP

[xCrazyJayx]

You know, every race deserves equal treatment. It doesn't matter what colour you are, all races deserve to get killed in video games.

[grimxSlatna]

lol

dam wright =D

[Cratos6969]

Racism...... again?!

[datsyuk13rules]

yea i know it sounds to stupid............i guess valve and capcom have a thing for racism...........capcom cause of resident evil 5

[Cratos6969]

Ahhhh YEAH..... that's what I was trying to say anyway........

[SpecterM91]

I hope and pray that Epic Mickey sees a release. Holy Hell, the concept art looks amazing. Dunno how accurate it is, but I saw a post on GoNintendo earlier mentioning some gameplay details and it really does seem fun. Disney, this is your chance to prove that you don't suck, don't screw it up. (Read: I love old school and certain upcoming films like TRON 2 look amazing, but their animation department has indeed gone to shit)

[JumperWangie]

go mickey!!

[Ohpityme]

I think the guy from the Houston Chronicle was referring to the portrayal of the citizens of NO in the aftermath of Katrina being mindless crazed zombies... or at least that seems to be the most obvious reason to throw out the racism label.

With computer games I don't think its necessarily racism, but more a naivety surrounding social issues, because gaming has never addressed such things before so it often does it without subtlety.

Also seems like a cop out to say you're not even addressing it.

[crazyfreakfromlt]

thats it, i have to see street fighter: legend .... , just to see how bad it is

[TetrisX]

L4D racist? What a load of shit.

[farfi1337]

Its not rasist to include african american zombies/main characters.

In the event of a zombie apocalypse,

i think black people would exist.

[xenniex2]

i think it's racist not to add black zombies

[wealthee]

yeah, i dont think its racist.

why is it racist to add a few black zombies.

isnt it racist since all the zombies are white?

[thatzombieguy]

I think African Americans would also get caught up in a zombie holocaust if there ever was one...

[AWetGlove]

Houston chronicle: Black Zombies are racist!

Valve: Remove all black zombies

houston chronicle: There are no black zombies!? Thats racist

Valve: Include black zombies

Houston chronicle: Black Zombies are racist!

[lbeno]

Is this guy saying that if zombies ever did appear on the earth, they should leave the african americans alone and only get the white people? What a fucking joke

[Wynner3]

sweet artwork

[abfun123]

kingdom hearts ftw!!

[dudeglove]

Wow. Another bunch of stupid fucktards shitting their pants the moment a black guy appears in a violent game, Ironically they never seem to care about hispanic zombies or chinese zombies or gay zombies. FFS George Romero films had black zombies. One was the main character at the beginning of one of the films, if I remember rightly. What a bunch of PC dicks.

[TARDISdude2k7]

i agree!

[duckmcduck55five]

how do u no if a zombies gay?

[TheLastHaze]

Well you look at the way they walk ofcourse.

[dudeglove]

They go to dinner parties and drink cocktails.

[Blackbohnster]

Epic Micky is a epic title!

[WindWalker940]

epic mickey is epic

[ShadowZezima]

LOL

[Curtisandjakefile]

snow lorus?!?!?!

[Anophathalm]

God, L4D racist? Get a life (who ever wrote the blog).

[tenka9teen]

Its RE5 all over again *sigh*

[snipersam3]

thats what i thought.

it's not racist to kill white zombies, but because there black, it's racist.

*facepalm*

[FFrulesall]

they would require a brain to have a life and saying L4d is racist is proof they sadly do not have one

[crammage]

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee­eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee­eeeeee

[kaushikpaddy]

lol i say they people hu say its Racist are Racist because not many people cared

[UnderGruntGamerX]

the Epic Mickey material looks dark and wierd, wich is awesome.

[roger62383]

i told you guys sony will win

[anythinggoesjoe]

keep on replaying 2:02 if you hate the street fighter movie as much as i do

[Shadow7284]

Epic Mickey looks f-ing sweet and people over-react when it comes to the littel'st things get over it

[xtomass]

Great its not raceist to shoot whity's , but it is if you shoot blacky's...

[Llythe]

wow idiots will find racism in anything

[killerwill55]

i fucking hate black people because they complain about everything like small shit.. it doesnt really fucking even matter

[whytef11]

Wow... And Your Not Racist at All... I dont Belive It Was An African American (Get it Right Bitch.. Lol) But Still I do Think That The Blogger was making A Big Deal out of Nothing... I just Cant Belivie There Making A Game With More Than 1 Black Person!!! YES!!! I mean I can Even Play An All Black Team on MvC2... Storm, Akuma?.... And..... Dark Sakura??? Lol

[23lebron23james]

it was a white guy who pointed it out idiot

[EmperorEva0001]

I was the one who pointed it out!

[SlavicDemon]

The race card is sooooooooooooooo overrated.

[SSShino]

wtf was that creature?!! LOL

[videomaker74]

idk

[theitalianplumber]

*listens to first article*

wow...just wow.

that kicks re5 out of the water

[Nelius88]

It's not racist lol it's just a game..Left 4 dead 2 its gonna be great and im lookin forward to the ''epic mickey'' game..Oh and where's Kingdom Hearts 3??

[SnipeySnake]

"And finally it looks like we'll be getting a game with mickey and goofy.."(YES YES YES!!) "thats not! kingdom hearts!" (argh....)

[SH1N081]

the race issue will never leave because of stupid idiots who think that everything is racist.

[GoSuNiguy]

Racism again? I thought it was through after RE5. People never learn.

[sweatervestking]

the mickey thing actually looks pretty cool

[Sirthatguy]

137th!

[KAPTAINmORGANnWo4eva]

I wonder how games like Elder Scrolls have dodged the racism banner, seeing as black people and white people have different stats, even though when you get right down to it, evolution did make black people a little bit more athletic than white people.

[PoorPaintProductions]

Oh yes, Elder Scrolls does have a lot of racism. But then again most of it is with the made up races, though Redguards are solely "black" and imperials, bretons, and nords are solely "white."

[KnightTemplar108]

I hope you're joking.

[KAPTAINmORGANnWo4eva]

Hey, it's better I point it out than a Concerned Mother of America.

[LegitimateLegenD]

"I just want cake!!!!"

Portal much?

[haitah]

Kingdom hearts =snooze

Epic Mickey = AWESOMNESS

Any questions?

[Sirthatguy]

you will draw with the wii mote in epic mickey and thats it. I have no doubt that the story will be awesome, but so far gameplay sounds crappy

[jaxter8]

sounds like okami to me and its gonna be a platformer

[585adam13]

people need to stop bitching about left 4 dead 2

[wickedpower6]

i know everyone has to stop bitching about left 4 dead 2 i dont give a fuck about racism or any other shit what people are talking about this game i just want to buy already so i can play it cant wait for this game

[deathsceane]

Oh God not the race issue again.

[stitch1993]

the mickey game looks awesome

[FreakinSweet87]

Okay, I'm sick of this racism bullshit. Black's just want something to complain about. As harsh as that sounds, you'd be hard-pressed to find a white racist anymore. The only time you'll hear anything about racism is through the mouth of a black person.

There's no fucking thing as racism nowadays. I'm not a racist, but I'm also not an idiot who's going to act blind like this is all untrue. I'm sure a lot of blacks would agree because it's not all of them, just the ignorant ones.

[Dojikun]

this man speaks the truth, i aggree

i mean yeah the blacks had it hard but honestly the jews had it way tougher i mean look at how long they were slaves and then the holocaust

[CUTWEST]

funny thing is that....no blacks are complaining about it....its all white people that always call racism in games.

hmmmmm i wonder why?

know your facts before you make yourself look like a dumbshit.

[STALKER1321]

It's because Black people don't know how to play videos games

[CUTWEST]

try telling that to the winners at EVO...who were in fact primarily Black or Asian.

[thedanswanson]

nononononono, they can't afford it

[Nelius88]

LoL thats the most retarded thing i've ever heard in my life..

[RoadToDawn51]

We do we get people ranting about equality between whites and blacks when THE SAME PEOPLE are more sensitive toward blacks?

wtf is the big deal with skin pigment?

[FREAKFANATIC]

So first RE5, and now LfD2. People are too over sensitive these days about this issue, its a FUCKING game, with people that do NOT exist.

[tnpan]

The Cake is a Lie. I could not resist.

[Rdubbs19]

epic mickey should be sweet! i saw the MGM water tower and Epcot ball maybe involved with disney world?

[clays121]

90% of the time it's usually a black person screaming this or that is racist. those are the kind of people who are more raciest then those white southern Nazi freaks, and yes i am white and from the deep south of America, and have seen it 1st hand, and i have to say it's truly fucked up to say the least, if you ask me. BTW i have no problems with black people, just pointing out what i see where i live.

[WoWGoat]

Aww, he forgot to mention the Needler zombie rumor.

[cheesewheel]

HOW THE FUCK IS HAVING BLACK ZOMBIES RACIST!? If anything it's the total opposite of racism because it's including black people into the game, it's not like they put the black ones in just because they wanted to see black people die like wtf, if black people AREN'T in a game it's racist, if they ARE in a game it's racist

[BurnoutSpartan]

Seriously. To quote something I found on the internet, I dont care if your black, white, asian, purple, green, or plaid, if your a zombie thats trying to kill me I'll blow your fucking head off!

[sk8erlprj]

Epic Mickey Is gonna be awesome! Cant wait to the video gameplay

[Mcs0710]

yeah , I was about to say that, stupidity is something the gaming industry will have to deal with forever.......(cough) (cough) Jack Thompson!!

[Teckniphobia]

The concept art for Epic Mickey actually looks pretty cool. I really hope that they come at it from a fresh prospective though, since Kingdom Hearts seems to have lost the plot from the narrative prospective.

[pat4luigi13]

I can't believe racism is still an issue. What's worse, or more stupid, is that it's now implied to games. Wtf. They are zombies! The dead! And they want to kill you!

[IAmSamThatIAM]

Todays Hard News so boring I didn't even listen carefully.

[HeartBreakKid551]

HOLY SHIT

again with the fucking racism jesus christ i bet that the people who yell out that everything is racist r probably the most racist bastards u will ever meet

[Tailsown]

i fucking hate tokens oh its predjustice. so its ok to kill spainsh,asian,native american,eastern indian , and whites when there zombies but not blacks. shut ur mouth tokens. its game!!!

[Deth280483]

Epic Mickey...now what´s next? epic high school musical?

[109chickenwing]

MICKEY MOUSE IS EPIC!!!!!!

[zZArsenicZz]

Wow Racist? ...

If they were all white it isn't racist? but with some African Americans in it it's Racist, wow some people can be so Anal.

[cOrYoPhUs]

That artwork looks awesome. Can't wait to see that Mickey game

[GraydonW]

its not racist he can suck my 12 inch dick

[ZeroKnoble]

When I heard the word "Valve" I was hoping for something Half-life related...*Sob*

[Xerodynamicz]

I'm sick of every fucking minority crying racism. Get the fuck over it.

[armageddon74400]

that part about the dude calling left 4 dead 2 racist because SOME of the zombies are black made me completely laugh my ass off. it's like if you include black ppl in a video game it's racist but then if everyone in the game is white it's even more racist. WHAT DOES AMERICA WANT?!?!?!

[HeartBreakKid551]

yea i know remember with RE5?

They freaked out cuz the zombies were black and now Valve puts less black people in it so it wont be RE5 all over again AND STILL ppl freak out

[Aaron5of13]

all my ancestors came from the UK so what hyphenated American does that make me? I don't want to non dashed cuz everybody hates those kind of Americans

[xmastermoe360x]

epic mickey looks sick PER-ORDER

[dewdenelite2]

first it was RE5 now its L4D2

if anything it would be racist not to put African Americans in the game

[WowVideosbyVessel]

Epic Mickey is Epic

[snOwNHLm]

imargry

[sccandudz]

fucking quit with games being "racest" mix races of zombies... and its a location in a faction story line... its fucking stupid

[ihateschool778]

any game where not black people kill black people is "racist" but any game were black people kill not black people "isnt racist"

who fukin cares who gets killed by who. if its not a bunch of kkk members or nazis or watever goin around killin people its not rasict.

im white