Mass Effect/Fox News controversy

I know this doesn’t exactly pertain to our class, but I felt like this needed to be shared.

Recently, a segment on Fox News aired “discussing” the Xbox 360 game Mass Effect. The point of the segment was their objection to what they called  “full digital nudity and sex.” In traditional Fox News fashion, however, this is untrue, and they wouldn’t let the only person on the show that had even played the game say that.

The video is below, and you can see for yourself: a bunch of uninformed old people talking about and passing judgement on things they simply don’t understand.

I don’t like having to take up internet arms to defend my chosen past time. But when I heard some talking head refer to a game with less sexual content than your average episode of The O.C. or Grey’s Anatomy as “Luke Skywalker meets Debbie Does Dallas,”  I wept tears of blood and brain fluid in frustration.

However, just today, Kotaku (my gaming blog of choice) posted an open letter from Electronic Arts(the company that publishes Mass Effect) VP Jeff Brown, calling Fox News out on their gross inaccuracies, and asking them to set the record straight. The letter can be found here at Kotaku.

The most interesting thing about the letter was Brown saying that as interactive entertainment draws ever more people away from television, that he expects more stories and segments like this to come out decrying the evils of video games.

What do you all think?

~ by supernovajesus on January 24, 2008.