{"id":9419,"date":"2011-01-17T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-16T22:10:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"dead-space-2-trailer-makes-moms-angry-afraid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/9419-dead-space-2-trailer-makes-moms-angry-afraid","title":{"rendered":"Dead Space 2 trailer makes moms angry, afraid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Outraged parents and gruesome videogames aren&rsquo;t exactly breaking news anymore &ndash; oh, except when EA decides to cash in on ignorant public hysteria for a marketing campaign.<\/p>\n<p>They&rsquo;ve just pushed out a new promo for Dead Space 2, showing a bunch of middle-aged moms being grossed out by the game. They&rsquo;ve even launched an accompanying website, <a href=\"http:\/\/yourmomhatesthis.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">yourmomhatesthis.com.<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While the ad is admittedly sort of amusing at face value, one can&rsquo;t help but wonder at the rationale behind the campaign &#8211; apparently endorsing stupid moral panic is the hot new way to undermine it or something. I can&rsquo;t work out how appealing to fatuous adolescent rebelliousness is supposed to sell a game rated for mature audiences.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a socio-political climate where gaming is increasingly under scrutiny &ndash; and with potentially very real consequences for everybody &ndash; I&rsquo;m not convinced that punting a game on the basis of its violence and shock value is such a clever idea.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And where are the horrified dads? I know loads of guys who were too scared to play the first game. Hey, Nic!&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This facepalm goes off-world<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"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_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9419","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\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}