Media on videogames after the Norway massacre and bombings

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www.examiner.com/video-games-in-milwauk ... -is-enough

Some Norwegian retailers already have started to pull back many videogames - even including World of WarCraft - he PLAYED it, after all.

I'd give more links, but I don't have the energy to seek them up in English translation, for the moment. Maybe someone else can find some? Here is, however, one link in Norwegian:

www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/oslobomben/ ... d=10081059



I'm so glad that I'm going to live such a brief life.... first manga and anime, in Sweden, following with Europe, and now surely videogames, as well. I'm sure that people like the EU commission's Cecilia Malmström will be quick to jump on the bandwagon.

Last edited by Beauty_pact on 29 Jul 2011, 5:42 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Guess he also had a car so why not also ban that?
and ugh ugh also ban food he ate it after all lol

Well, he DID use a car for his car bomb.... maybe having the car was what made him think of that method....

Video games are the second favorite whipping boy after guns.

i find this odd, we havent had any of that kind of blowback here in denmark that i know of, is it legislation or just shops?

My dad is downstairs playing Mario Kart. I wonder if after the game he's going to go to the supermarket and start shooting every one? I mean videogames DO incite hostile actions, right?

Oh god........and my moms playing Bejeweled. What if she suddenly gets the urge to blow up a line of people at Hobby Lobby?

The man wore clothing. Maybe we should ban clothing.

It's just shops and debates on it, so far - I don't think many or any politicians - in Norway, that is - have had time to put themselves into it. But it usually starts this way.

Hopefully, politicians around here will have the brains to understand that it is just a complete nut, and that what videogames he played, car he drove or clothes he wore had no relevance on his deranged mind. Unfortunately, I'm not too hopeful on the path that the mind of Sweden's justice minister Beatrice Ask is taking - she is well-known for her stupidity. I have far greater hope for Norway, really...

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Actually, it did say in an article i read yesterday, that he was using a certain video game to train himself for shooting combat. I'd need to find the paper again to get the name though.

You're talking about Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Well, first of all, you can't possibly "train" yourself with a mouse and a keyboard, unless you're mentally training yourself because you already are a complete, utter nut like him. He already was filled with hatred against the ones he killed, since very far back, though, so I cannot see how that "mental training" would've made him any more capable of murder than he already was. Second, he started planning all this, nine years ago, already - long before the game had been released, and long before games were as realistic as they can be, today.

Also, did it not occur to you that he may be saying certain things in an attempt to get an initialization to the breakdown of democracy? Let's just hope he doesn't say that he's been surfing Asperger's forums, too.

For those of us who have been around games for awhile, this is just another bump in the road. Custer's Revenge, Death Race 2000, Mortal Kombat, Night Trap, and GTA3 are still around on the classics circuit, and Western civilization hasn't collapsed yet. Thankfully, we can't say the same for Jack Thompson's law career.