{"id":80247,"date":"2015-08-19T13:30:08","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T11:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=80247"},"modified":"2015-08-19T13:31:27","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T11:31:27","slug":"some-of-the-biggest-recent-videogame-controversies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/80247-some-of-the-biggest-recent-videogame-controversies","title":{"rendered":"Some of the biggest recent videogame controversies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The videogame industry, just like any industry these days, has its fair share of drama.<\/p>\n<p>Controversies that cause a stir in the industry, games that caused outrage due to their explicit scenes, racist remarks and overall sexist stance are just some of the more recent controversies, and that&#8217;s without even dipping your feet into the minefield that is eSports.<\/p>\n<p>To get us started along the path of controversies in the videogaming industry, we thought we&#8217;d put out but a few after the past few years.<\/p>\n<p>From #GamerGate and a church filing complaints about a war between man and alien, to Lindsay Lohan causing a stir in <em>GTA V<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here are some of the biggest controversies in the video game industry over the past few years:<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Resistance: Fall of Man<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><em>Resistance: Fall of Man<\/em> was one of the first titles to ever hit the PlayStation 3, back in 2007, when the console launched.<\/p>\n<p>It depicted a war against an alien threat as the last hopes of humanity fought through the streets of England, all to end a seemingly endless Chimera invasion.<\/p>\n<p>One particular scene within the game tasks you with a stroll through the Manchester Cathedral in England.<\/p>\n<p>You would visit this location with the objective of destroying a Chimera breeding ground, which just so happened to be within the cathedral itself.<\/p>\n<p>Like all shooters this lead to a gunfight, which caused the Church of England to file a complaint against this portion of the game.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FPSElsXIsEM\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Demanding that Sony remove the portion of the game due to \u201cdesecration\u201d and copyright infringement, Sony pulled the game off the shelves.<\/p>\n<p>After a formal apology, Sony managed to calm the situation and everything went back to normal.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>#GamerGate<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The biggest controversy in the video game industry since Manhunt hit shelves took the industry by a storm in late 2014.<\/p>\n<p>It all started with a game developer, Zoe Quinn, who released a game based on the journey through depression, <em>Depression Quest<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>After great reviews of the game hit the web, rumours started to rise that Zoe actually had a relationship with Kotaku journalist Nathan Grayson, leading him to grant the game a favourable review.<\/p>\n<p>That was just the beginning of the drama as the GamerGate hashtag was born, a movement behind ethics in video game journalism, but in the worst possible way.<\/p>\n<p>The GamerGate movement was a group of people that believed that feminists in the industry were a threat to video game culture, and that something needed to be done to stop this from happening.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5i_RPr9DwMA\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The movement went about this in the wrong manner with harassment, threats, abuse and even the hacking of private information on those targeted by the movement.<\/p>\n<p>Three main feminists at the centre of attention were Zoe Quinn, Anita Sakeesian, a feminist and cultural speaker, and Briaana Wu, a video game developer who was against the movement.<\/p>\n<p>GamerGate was a big problem that saw many female industry professional leave the industry.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Grand Theft Auto V<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>It&#8217;s no surprise that <em>Grand Theft Auto<\/em> is on this list of \u201cThe biggest controversies in video games\u201d. Not one<em> Grand Theft Auto<\/em> title releases without drama following close on its heels, and <em>Grand Theft Auto V<\/em> is no different.<\/p>\n<p>Lindsey Lohan, a world-famous child star, now questionable celebrity, filed a lawsuit against Rockstar after the release of <em>GTA V<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This was after Lacey Jones, an anorexic actress who asks the player for help dodging the paparazzi, was said to resemble the star.<\/p>\n<p>Lindsey Lohan also filed a lawsuit against the game\u2019s promotional artwork after she believed that the female showing a peace sign was also her.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/GTA-V-Controversy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-80253\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/GTA-V-Controversy.jpg\" alt=\"GTA V Controversy\" width=\"600\" height=\"439\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The suit explained that &#8220;The Plaintiff has been using the peace sign hand gesture for years before and after its use in the video game&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Saying that, Lindsey believes that the studio has used her indirectly in their promotional art, disc and other merchandise. This court case is still ongoing.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>6 Days in Fallujah<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Announced on April 5<sup>th,<\/sup> 2009, <em>6 Days in Fallujah<\/em> was a game created by Konami and Atomic Games that was said to be \u201ca super-realistic military survival horror\u201d depicting the events of the Iraq War.<\/p>\n<p>Just 22 days after the game\u2019s announcement, it was canned, due to the public saying that it was insensitive.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z85XLL9-6MI\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>At the time of the announcement, the war was still ongoing and at its peak of violence, so the game did come across in very poor taste.<\/p>\n<p>Atomic Games felt the cancellation of their game the most, shedding some staff as a result, ultimately causing the studio to shut its doors.<\/p>\n<p><em>6 Days in Fallujah<\/em> will never see the light of day, but today we often see depictions of the Iraq War indirectly in franchises like <em>Call of Duty<\/em> and <em>Battlefield<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>What controversies in the industry grabbed your attention the most? Let us know in the comments and forum.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>More features to wrap your head around<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/79965-the-downfall-of-konami.html\">The downfall of Konami<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/79879-our-5-favourite-unexplained-world-of-warcraft-mysteries.html\">Our 5 favourite unexplained World of Warcraft mysteries<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/columns\/77214-why-we-love-gaming-so-much.html\">Why we love gaming so much<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/columns\/75888-gpus-killed-the-videogame-star-has-3d-graphics-eliminated-originality-in-gaming.html\">GPUs killed the videogame star: has 3D graphics eliminated originality in gaming<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Events we&#8217;d much rather have not taken place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":213,"featured_media":80251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[15419,15417,3180,12938,2603,2009,3819],"class_list":["post-80247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-6-days-in-fallujah","tag-controversies","tag-feature","tag-gamergate","tag-grand-theft-auto-v","tag-gta-v","tag-resistance-fall-of-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80261,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80247\/revisions\/80261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}