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Facebook user encourages 3DS boycott

This may come as a shock, but not everyone is in love with the Nintendo 3DS. Take a man such as Ben Wiley for example. Ben has started an event on Facebook stating why he won’t buy a Nintendo 3DS. Ben is upset that Nintendo is using conflict materials in the production of the 3DS. Ben believes Nintendo is “allowing people to die and suffer grave human rights abuses for the sake of video game console production.”

Opinion: Why are realistic war movies praised while realistic war video games reviled?

EA is taking a great deal of public relations heat for its latest Medal of Honor game.

It’s a mindboggling double-standard.

If you make a gritty, ultra realistic war movie like The Hurt Locker, you can win an Academy Award.

If you try to make a video game that treats the same subject matter with realism and tells a strong story, you will be called insensitive and unpatriotic.

EA head blames Medal of Honor controversy on media sensationalism

Electronic Arts’ Medal of Honor has drawn the ire of some military personnel for including Taliban fighters as playable characters in multiplayer.

Outspoken EA CEO John Riccitiello made his opinion known at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Media, Communications & Entertainment Conference September 15, 2010.

Vikings’ long snapper latest player to boycott Madden NFL

Every year some player has an issue with his player rating or some other aspect of his Madden NFL representation. As far as Minnesota Vikings long snapper Cullen Loeffler is concerned, they should be happy. They’re at least in the game. Madden NFL doesn’t include long snappers so Loeffler and his special teams brethren are up in arms.

UK Defense Secretary calls for Medal of Honor ban

The Medal of Honor controversy has started to spread overseas. American citizens were initially upset at EA’s choice to include the Taliban as a playable group in Medal of Honor’s multiplayer mode. Some felt it was an insensitive inclusion due to the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. A UK politician has now vocalized his outrage for the title.

Taking a stand against industry stagnancy

CNET’s Don Reisinger is sick of the me-too mentality in our industry. In a post titled “Why I’m boycotting first-person shooters,” Reisinger lays out his annoyance with the “suits” running development studios and the Hollywood mentality dominating the once-creative and quirky world of videogames. is plan of action: boycott FPS titles, since he sees them as the most offensive…