I chuckled every time I read about how gamers have been waiting to play this game.

Wait a second...  This isn't Fox News?

Blow it out your ass

Those ladies deserve an uppercut.

Kidnapping women?

Professional journalism-ho! Cookie-day?

I'm enjoying the comments more than the article.

I can kidnap women and beat them in this game. Oh, Duke Nukem. You never fail to make me happy. =p

Aw they beat me to it! Except I was gonna show Heavy Rain to some parents of a lost child.
 
Maybe it should be Limbo? "See? This right there, your son could also be getting stabbed in the chest by a giant spider!"

Among the ads on the right side of the article:  Tramp Stamps! Cheerleaders ranked by attractiveness! Hot girls stretching suggestively! Gigantic tits! Asses! 
 
Good job, guys.

" Among the ads on the right side of the article:  Tramp Stamps! Cheerleaders ranked by attractiveness! Hot girls stretching suggestively! Gigantic tits! Asses!  Good job, guys. "

Why won't someone think of the children?!!

  The last thing we need is another venue that demeans women and portrays them as objects to be abused. The very people who are most susceptable to accepting the message that it is somehow okay and macho to abuse women, are the very ones that will buy this game. THAT is the point. Our society is saturated with these subtle messages, from a variety of sources, that imply doing harm to women is not only OKAY, but what a macho guy has every right to do. From rude "jokes," to TV, movies, and video, these types of portrayals increase the acceptance (and implied approval,) of violence against women. The number of women and little girls who are the victims in real life , has risen to the level of a super epidemic. (Check the FBI stats for yourself.) Anyone who has a woman or female child in their life that they cherish, ought to email a protest to gearbox, and refuse to purchase ANY of their wares.    
 
UnoHoo at 11:32 PM March 30, 2011

What ADULT plays GAMES anyway?!  People are 'children' a lot longer these days; this company is just trying to capitalize on that fact.  NO true parent would let their kids have access to garbage anyway.  You can't be 'cool' and be a GOOD parent.  I had access to video games when I was a BOY, but grew out of it; I learned to get outside & play sports; MUCH more satisfying.    
 
 
 
  
 
I especially like the second one. Is there a hidden message? ADULT GAMES NO GOOD BOY MUCH

I hope someday I can be quoted as a Video Gaming Personality in a news story.

Eat shit and die.

" Wait a second...  This isn't Fox News? "

" @JJOR64 said:

" Wait a second...  This isn't Fox News? "

Agreed...surprised to see this TV station pick up the story before FOX News takes it and goes nuts with it. "

If a boycott of this game does become popular, I may buy it just to say "fuck you". And I've never played a Duke Nukem game.

Read this...then saw this 
 
 

Looks like someone doesn't have any gum.

" Blow it out your ass "

"I hope someday I can be quoted as a Video Gaming Personality in a news story. "

Before I could write a full take on how Fox News presented Duke Nukem Forever, I received a telephone call.  It came yesterday afternoon from a reporter from The33 News, the local CW affiliate.  They wanted a "gaming expert" they could talk to about this upcoming game release, and I agreed to the interview.

Please watch the report before reading on by clicking here and then read on.

The local news story uses the phrase "smacking a woman around for a while" which is clearly only feeding off of Fox's overblown view of the topic.  They got comments from me in what looks to be an attempt to be a counterpoint from a woman who heads up a Dallas-area rape crisis center. 

This was not disclosed to me prior to my interview.  I was under the impression they had spoken to Gearbox Software, the studio producing the game, as well, but the story only featured a shot of the outside of their Plano headquarters and a statement that nobody from the company returned their calls.

I stand by the comments I made that actually made the airwaves.  It is the parent's responsibility to keep such gaming content out of the hands of their kids, and for those adults who find it offensive, it's their right to simply avoid playing or purchasing the game.

What bothers me is what they left out.  The story aired the opinions of the Dallas woman calling for a boycott of the game by airing her statement that "behaviors like that are carried out in real life when people become too de-sensitized."

I made a statement that could have acted as a direct counterpoint to that claim that was not used in the story, as I was asked a question that used that exact wording.

"There are just as many studies that show that people with violent tendencies are drawn to those kinds of games, rather than the games themselves being the cause of violent behavior," I said to the reporter, "but the media never seems to report on those studies as much as the ones that claim they cause it."

I suppose my statement proves itself here, as sure enough the story allowed someone to claim the game could/would/can cause a person to act in such a manner while the counterpoint that disagrees with it wasn't included.

Bottom line, I've played video games for 30 years this year.  Not once has any game ever caused me to act out anything within them.  My police record contains nothing more than an unpaid traffic ticket going across my lifetime.  Anyone who would act violently because they played a video game was already the type of person who would act that way regardless, and anyone claiming such a game could trigger such behaviors is misinformed.

My website saw a small bump in traffic since the story aired, mostly locally, and all from search engine searches.  Some have resulted in e-mails from people who take me as "defending the content of the game" or "seeing no problem with violence against women" and other such comments.

Perhaps this is a result of my edited comments, but I assure you that I don't support nor am defending anything.  I think any man that would strike or abuse a woman is the scum of the earth and something I have zero tolerance to even hear about.  The idea that my statements about a video game could or would possibly mean I have no issue with something like that is insulting.

I simply do not feel that Duke Nukem Forever will or could be the root cause of such behavior.  It's over-the-top and quite sexist.  I grant that.  I also note that it's no worse than countless films, television shows and even past video game releases going back to the 1980s.  Search for Leisure Suit Larry or Custer's Revenge in the same search engines you used to find my website.

The only thing this controversy is sure to do is sell the game, thereby exposing more people to the very content that some are objecting to.  Good job on the boycott, which I'm sure will double the pre-orders of the game. 

We live in a world where too many people blame entertainment or other people for the choices that people make.  Duke Nukem Forever is not going to bring out anything in anyone that doesn't already have it, nor is any other video game.  If the time that's used coming up with scapegoats was used instead to help stop those people, it would go a lot further.

Anyone wishing to speak with me about the topic can visit my website at www.PatrickScottPatterson.com or e-mail me directly at psp@patrickscottpatterson.com.

It's shit like this that makes me wonder what's the point of college.

" @Rayfield: Dude should sue the newspaper for defamation of character or libel or whatever they call it in Texas. He'd probably have success, both in court and in the realm of actual good journalism. "

" @example1013 said:

" @Rayfield: Dude should sue the newspaper for defamation of character or libel or whatever they call it in Texas. He'd probably have success, both in court and in the realm of actual good journalism. "

They didn't actively attempt to defame his character, and taking something someone says out of context is hardly illegal, just look at film advertisements. "

" @example1013: you must  not be from america. fox has gone to court to defend their right to lie in news reports as freedom of speech. i'd say the odds of this guy even trying to sue are at one in ten thousand and his odds of winning such a lawsuit at about one in a trillion. "

Oh those old news media fear-mongers.  First Mass  Effect is dubbed a "rape simulator" because it had slow-mo, consensual, boring, missionary sex scenes.  Now this story is written in such a way that just about anyone who reads it will think Duke is slapping women in the face.  Even I thought that until I saw the Penny Arcade strip.  Slapping women in the face is a horrible act, and would be truly offensive as a game mode.  Playfully slapping their asses is fine, that's just Duke's idea of foreplay...
 
*Puts on sunglasses*
"Deal with it.  And shake it, Baby."

" @President_Barackbar said:

" @example1013 said:

" @Rayfield: Dude should sue the newspaper for defamation of character or libel or whatever they call it in Texas. He'd probably have success, both in court and in the realm of actual good journalism. "

They didn't actively attempt to defame his character, and taking something someone says out of context is hardly illegal, just look at film advertisements. "

Well, it usually wouldn't be, but I'd say he at least has a little bit of a case. If he's now being personally attacked for the out-of-context quotes, he might be able to say something. This is especially true because he could probably claim himself a private figure, which would work in his favor. "

" @example1013 said:

" @President_Barackbar said:

" @example1013 said:

" @Rayfield: Dude should sue the newspaper for defamation of character or libel or whatever they call it in Texas. He'd probably have success, both in court and in the realm of actual good journalism. "

They didn't actively attempt to defame his character, and taking something someone says out of context is hardly illegal, just look at film advertisements. "

Well, it usually wouldn't be, but I'd say he at least has a little bit of a case. If he's now being personally attacked for the out-of-context quotes, he might be able to say something. This is especially true because he could probably claim himself a private figure, which would work in his favor. "

No, because to prove libel you have to prove without a doubt that this person absolutely ruined your life to the degree that you'll never be able to live normally again. They can say all that they want, and since he even admits that they did quote him directly, just out of context, he doesn't have a case at all. It sucks, but libel is something that's incredibly hard to prove and win successfully, and something that a lot of people like to throw out because it gets taught in every constitution class. What's not taught is how rarely it's able to be used. "

" @DystopiaX said:

" @example1013 said:

" @President_Barackbar said:

" @example1013 said:

" @Rayfield: Dude should sue the newspaper for defamation of character or libel or whatever they call it in Texas. He'd probably have success, both in court and in the realm of actual good journalism. "

They didn't actively attempt to defame his character, and taking something someone says out of context is hardly illegal, just look at film advertisements. "

Well, it usually wouldn't be, but I'd say he at least has a little bit of a case. If he's now being personally attacked for the out-of-context quotes, he might be able to say something. This is especially true because he could probably claim himself a private figure, which would work in his favor. "

No, because to prove libel you have to prove without a doubt that this person absolutely ruined your life to the degree that you'll never be able to live normally again. They can say all that they want, and since he even admits that they did quote him directly, just out of context, he doesn't have a case at all. It sucks, but libel is something that's incredibly hard to prove and win successfully, and something that a lot of people like to throw out because it gets taught in every constitution class. What's not taught is how rarely it's able to be used. "

Doesn't mean he can't sue, though.  I WILL NEVER GIVE UP! "

" @example1013 said:

" @DystopiaX said:

" @example1013 said:

" @President_Barackbar said:

" @example1013 said:

" @Rayfield: Dude should sue the newspaper for defamation of character or libel or whatever they call it in Texas. He'd probably have success, both in court and in the realm of actual good journalism. "

They didn't actively attempt to defame his character, and taking something someone says out of context is hardly illegal, just look at film advertisements. "

Well, it usually wouldn't be, but I'd say he at least has a little bit of a case. If he's now being personally attacked for the out-of-context quotes, he might be able to say something. This is especially true because he could probably claim himself a private figure, which would work in his favor. "

No, because to prove libel you have to prove without a doubt that this person absolutely ruined your life to the degree that you'll never be able to live normally again. They can say all that they want, and since he even admits that they did quote him directly, just out of context, he doesn't have a case at all. It sucks, but libel is something that's incredibly hard to prove and win successfully, and something that a lot of people like to throw out because it gets taught in every constitution class. What's not taught is how rarely it's able to be used. "

Doesn't mean he can't sue, though.  I WILL NEVER GIVE UP! "

Of course he can sue. you could sue anyone. I could sue you for disagreeing with me on the internet. Doesn't mean he'll win. "

Why the fuck is the fat fucking retard wasting the time of a crisis center to show them something trivial that actually has nothing to do with them? What a fat fucking ugly piece of shit. Maybe she should do some reporting on the crisis center and how they are helping people, rather than showing them something trivial like a fucking videogame. 

Someone should slap that bitch.

" @Rayfield: I missed your gratuitous use of the caps lock button. "

bitch be crazy

Hail to the king baby.

I think that bitch needs to get kidnapped and beaten by the duke, that will change her mind.

" Why the fuck is the fat fucking retard wasting the time of a crisis center to show them something trivial that actually has nothing to do with them? What a fat fucking ugly piece of shit. Maybe she should do some reporting on the crisis center and how they are helping people, rather than showing them something trivial like a fucking videogame.  "

I never wanted to commit a violent act against women until I saw that article.  

Maybe we should roll out BioShock, yet again, to show games can be art.

This "controversial" multiplayer mode sounds much like the Have Mercy mode in The Warriors. I don't remember hearing all this shit then.

This article has made me want to go out and slap and rape women before the game comes out just to prove they're wrong 
I should make it a Facebook event so all of you can join as well 
SOLIDARITY FOR DUKE!