{"id":94933,"date":"2016-06-13T09:41:01","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T07:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=94933"},"modified":"2016-06-13T09:59:27","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T07:59:27","slug":"developer-thinks-e3-announcements-are-mass-murder-fantasies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/94933-developer-thinks-e3-announcements-are-mass-murder-fantasies","title":{"rendered":"Developer thinks E3 announcements are &#8220;mass murder&#8221; fantasies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prominent indie developer Jonathan Blow has spoken out strongly against the games released at this year&#8217;s E3 conference.<\/p>\n<p>Taking to Twitter, Blow called out game developers for &#8220;working very hard to build fantasies about how cool it is to be a mass murderer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Other developers (including Markus &#8220;Notch&#8221; Persson) retaliated by saying that &#8220;studios big enough to be at E3 are the ones that make games people want.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><strong>You can watch the drama unfold below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jonathan_Blow\/status\/742193619101089794<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/notch\/status\/742254757864038400<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/notch\/status\/742254983521800192<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/TommyRefenes\/status\/742197071692763137<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jonathan_Blow\/status\/742194735935152128<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Do you think games are too violent? Let us know in the comments below and in our forums<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Amazing and embarrassing E3 moments\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/93831-amazing-and-embarrassing-e3-moments.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Amazing and embarrassing E3 moments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to AMD Radeon RX 480 4K benchmark leaked \u2013 faster than a GeForce GTX 980\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/94893-amd-radeon-rx-480-4k-benchmark-leaked-faster-than-a-geforce-gtx-980.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">AMD Radeon RX 480 4K benchmark leaked \u2013 faster than a GeForce GTX 980<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Everything that happened at Bethesda\u2019s E3 conference: Announcements, trailers and more\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/94861-everything-that-happened-at-bethesdas-e3-conference-announcements-trailers-and-more-wip.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Everything that happened at Bethesda\u2019s E3 conference: Announcements, trailers and more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prominent indie developer Jonathan Blow has spoken out strongly against the games released at this year&#8217;s E3 conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":94935,"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":[20],"tags":[31,18459,2624,727,8976],"class_list":["post-94933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-active","tag-e3-2016","tag-jonathan-blow","tag-notch","tag-the-witness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94933","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\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94933"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94941,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94933\/revisions\/94941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}