Game Over: Gender, Race & Violence in Video Games

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Video and computer games represent a $6 billion a year industry. One out of every ten households in American owns a Sony Playstation. Children who own video game equipment play an average of ten hours per week. And yet, despite capturing the attention of millions of children worldwide, video games remain one of the least scrutinized cultural industries.

Game Over is the first educational documentary to address the fastest growing segment of the media through engaging questions of gender, race and violence.

Game Over offers a refreshing dialogue about the complex and controversial topic of video game violence, and is designed to encourage high school and college students to think critically about the video games they play.

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[globalchaos1984]

I played Mario the other day, now I thirst for blood.

[RBlack999]

Violence is one of innate traits humans have because it is a necessary trait if we are to defend ourselves physically.

Every living thing has certain level of "violence." The point of this video is that violence in media, specifically in video games, can misguide children to misuse that innate trait that we have.

So yea we are innately violent like any other living beings. We as humans are also too smart for our own good and can get influenced and harmed by our own inventions.

[Musashi242]

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this is the worst game docu i ever seen. what a joke.

[Gunt78]

@DARTHPIZZAROLL Lack of content duly noted.

[DARTHPIZZAROLL]

@Gunt78 right, I REALLY need to get out my cave.

[Gunt78]

@DARTHPIZZAROLL Well your obviously living in a cave if you don't think racism is an issue anymore. The London riots ring any bells. Whilst that escalated into more a class issue the roots of it were based on the sentiment that the police are racist, that black youngsters feel victimised by the police through stop and search methods.

[DARTHPIZZAROLL]

@phreshhbewh94xX well they are rated M for Mature for a reason...

[DARTHPIZZAROLL]

@sitwithabook the thing is, they act like ALL video games are like this. which isn't true. like the Marine guy saying that there isn't a single game in the world where you don't shoot people.

[DARTHPIZZAROLL]

@biscutsforbreakfast this was made in 2000, the ESRB had been around for 6 years by that point!

[DARTHPIZZAROLL]

@Superpureeliteful that depends on the PERSON. from what you said it seems you just had a lack of self control. not all gamers are like that.

[DARTHPIZZAROLL]

@Superpureeliteful which army games are you talking about? because the only game that featured Taliban I can think of is last year's Medal of Honor reboot. and there was so much complaining from people that EA change their name to "opposing force" so what game's are you talking about? and NO there are no Taliban in Modern Warfare.