EA Takes on Fox News, and defends Mass Effect's love scene

[Flawless]

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EA not backing down

Jeff Brown, Electronic Arts' vice president of communication, told Kotaku that the producer told him to contact Fox News' public relations department, which apparently now deals with factual errors in their stories.

Brown told me he wasn't surprised, but that EA will continue to "step up when someone maligns our creative teams.
"They need to understand there are 100 people in Edmonton, Alberta who dedicated years to making that game. They've got names, faces and reputations - and they've been slandered. We're angry about that."

He added that yesterday's reaction was not a one off, "it's a policy directive from Riccitiello. Anyone who tells lies about our creative teams is going to get a fight."

Fox invites EA onto show

Fox News Channel has extended several invitations to EA through a company representative to appear on Live Desk With Martha MacCallum to discuss Mass Effect and the segment which aired on Monday. We have received no response.

[Hooe]

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Glad to see EA is stepping up for gaming in general on this issue. This isn't the first time video games have gotten a bad rep from non-gaming-related media.

...who woulda thought, praising EA...

[bkfount]

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Fox invites EA onto show

If they refuse to appear, FOX will just send a guerilla interviewer after them to jump out of the bushes as they get off of work...like they've done to others.

[ac11367]

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As gamers, what can we do alleviate our anger due to FOX's b*llsh*t? From reading the Kotaku article, people are leaving bad reviews for Cooper Lawrence's books (she's one of the panelist) in Amazon.com.

[Hooe]

Re: EA Takes on Fox News, and defends Mass Effect's love scene

As gamers, what can we do alleviate our anger due to FOX's b*llsh*t? From reading the Kotaku article, people are leaving bad reviews for Cooper Lawrence's books (she's one of the panelist) in Amazon.com.

I don't know what individual gamers could do outside of a barrage of email complaints to FOX, but I suppose if EA really wanted to take a hard-line stance on this they could stop paying for advertising space on FOX and all FOX-affiliated networks. Money talks.

[bkfount]

Re: EA Takes on Fox News, and defends Mass Effect's love scene

As gamers, what can we do alleviate our anger due to FOX's b*llsh*t? From reading the Kotaku article, people are leaving bad reviews for Cooper Lawrence's books (she's one of the panelist) in Amazon.com.

which got removed...

all the flaming does is make gamers look immature and childish. This was just a filler news story manufactured to fill time. The segment had no real experts, and displayed their lack of knowledge when they brought up games like pac-man. They even said all they did was look at videos or not even play the game. Just ignore them entirely and FOX news will move on to immigration or iran war stories again.

[ifiok25]

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I get kind of sick of the unfairness of video game bashing vs. visual entertainment (television, movies, ect.) in this society. Honestly, the hatred for video games is just crazy yet the movies get so much of a pass. I mean, you have extremely graphic movies out there with senseless killing and sickening plots that get a pass. This country is by far extremely backwards.......

I see what your saying. There is a serious double standard here. When it come to VG's they always bash, but with movies full of sex and violence, they don't seem to care. I stopped watching FOX News years ago because they're so conservative and right wing and I'm glad I did. CNN is where it's at.

[Rocky]

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Maybe EA will buy the exclusive rights to Live Desk with Martha MacCallum.

[bkfount]

Re: EA Takes on Fox News, and defends Mass Effect's love scene

I see what your saying. There is a serious double standard here. When it come to VG's they always bash, but with movies full of sex and violence, they don't seem to care. I stopped watching FOX News years ago because they're so conservative and right wing and I'm glad I did. CNN is where it's at.

CNN, MSNBC, Fox, etc..all have their own bias. There is no middle ground everyman gray color news corporation. There's too much money involved with tilting a little one way or the other, and providing shows with commentary like o'reilly, dobbs, beck, and olbermann. Regardless, I don't think it's a FOX news thing as much as a cheap target topic for 24 hour news.

Anyways, videogames are more interactive. So a game like manhunt, which is a poor game to judge a whole industry on, has a player kill people. In movies, you just watch people kill people. There's horrible games like there's horrible movies. However, I assume the evil anti game people make the distinction that a child watching a R rated movie is less damaging than the same child actively beating virtual whores with a bat, then cutting their head off in a plastic bag in a game.

[ifiok25]

Re: EA Takes on Fox News, and defends Mass Effect's love scene

CNN, MSNBC, Fox, etc..all have their own bias. There is no middle ground everyman gray color news corporation. There's too much money involved with tilting a little one way or the other, and providing shows with commentary like o'reilly, dobbs, beck, and olbermann. Regardless, I don't think it's a FOX news thing as much as a cheap target topic for 24 hour news.

Anyways, videogames are more interactive. So a game like manhunt, which is a poor game to judge a whole industry on, has a player kill people. In movies, you just watch people kill people. There's horrible games like there's horrible movies. However, I assume the evil anti game people make the distinction that a child watching a R rated movie is less damaging than the same child actively beating virtual whores with a bat, then cutting their head off in a plastic bag in a game.

I agree somewhat. I just don't like the 24 Hour News network cash cow that America's turned into.

[trobinson97]

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which got removed...

all the flaming does is make gamers look immature and childish. This was just a filler news story manufactured to fill time. The segment had no real experts, and displayed their lack of knowledge when they brought up games like pac-man. They even said all they did was look at videos or not even play the game. Just ignore them entirely and FOX news will move on to immigration or iran war stories again.

They are back up. They just took out the ones that were really extreme.

[SPTO]

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It seems gamers are the scum of the earth to some of these people. It's as if our opinion doesn't count.

Mass Effect (in my limited time playing it) is one of the best games i've ever played in my life. It had an engrossing story and great gameplay yet the media has to focus on a tiny aspect of the game which in reality isn't ALL that controversial.

Oh well...

[NYG_Meth]

Re: EA Takes on Fox News, and defends Mass Effect's love scene

Maybe EA will buy the exclusive rights to Live Desk with Martha MacCallum.

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