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I can’t tell whether this is serious or not. Whether it’s made for content or just trolling.

https://www.axios.com/video-games-extremism-f50a825e-b5b5-4008-905a-23ef847a85ee.html

Far-right extremists are a growing presence in gaming, researchers have found, while the industry’s hidden metrics, lackluster content moderation and head-in-the-sand attitudes get in the way of assessing and combatting the problem.

Why it matters: Gaming and game-adjacent platforms have grown into some of the largest entertainment industries in the world, leading to massive opportunities for recruitment and organizing by extremist groups.

A December 2021 report from the Extremism and Gaming Research Network (EGRN) found that innovative efforts to prevent and counter violent extremism in gaming spaces are “nearly undetectable.”

State of play: Extremism in games is “a growing threat,” Alex Newhouse, the deputy director at the Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism, said in a Games Developers Conference talk last month.

“Games are becoming increasingly social … those social hooks provide the structures and the infrastructure for extremists to organize, mobilize and spread their hateful and extreme ideologies,” Newhouse said.

What’s happening: In games stretching from military shooters like Call of Duty to open creative environments like Roblox, extremist groups spread abusive messages and foster relationships.

Experts like Rachel Kowert, research director at Take This, have found that games can create unique relationships due to the cooperative, stimulating experiences they present. “Friendships are closer, long lasting and form faster than in other spaces on the internet,” she told Axios.
Newhouse said it was relatively easy to find signs of neo-Nazi, and far right fascist groups on Roblox, Discord, games marketplace Steam and other platforms.
Since much of the player data is private, researchers say they lack detailed knowledge of which games or platforms extremists use most for these activities. Nor, according to Kowert, has there been overt cooperation with many studios to share that data.

Playing Skyrim when I’m high. Killing as many towns-folks as I can and attempting to stuff them all in my cellar of one of my homes. What a great game. ; P

Hi guys. Has anyone already pre-ordered Stalker 2? I’m really looking forward to the game, but I don’t know whether to buy it now or wait… I just bought a pre-order for cyberpunk earlier, the game turned out to be unfinished, as you know. I didn’t get anything good except desktop wallpaper

Not gonna lie. I’ve dreamed of an open world Dune game for a long time. I may keep my eye on this one

I finally downloaded Destiny 2, which so many are talking about right now. But if you didn’t like the first part of Destiny, you won’t like the second part either, because the guys at Bungie Studios decided not to break something that seems to work pretty well, and left the game without critical changes. But I was just thrilled with the first part so I liked the second one a lot. I even turned to https://lfcarry.com/d2 for various additions to the game that would be even more interesting to play.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 3 months ago by Helen09.

@Helen09 : I got Destiny 1 to play with my brother, but I didn’t like it very much. I got Destiny 2 and it was not great until Forsaken and The Dreaming City came out, I played it a LOT then for about a year probably. It was great in that era of the game, the Forge stuff was kind of cool too. But, then they changed things and ruined it. It’s all garbage now imo. I quit playing long ago. Personally, I have never been much of a fan of Bungie. Never cared for Halo much, I have 5 of the games but really only liked Halo Reach because of the Cop-Op horde mode Firefight, that was fun as hell. I am NOT a competitive multiplayer person, I frankly hate it, so that is part of why I don’t care for Halo so much. I’ve always found Bungies “floating” jump mechanics stupid.