Didnāt these game journalists learn their lesson with Hatred? The more you talk about a controversial game, giving such titles as war crime simulator, the more publicity it will get and people will buy it just for that, for the controversy.
itās a weird one because while they are certainly giving it oxygen, there are people who donāt know about what happened in fallujah and donāt understand what the fuss is about, so staying completely silent about it isnāt an effective move either.
the kind of people that spend money on games for the sake of controversy donāt seem like the kind of people you can reach out to and expect to get great results.
at the end of the day though, it all comes down to clicks, so whatever moral stance a site takes and whatever benefits such a stance offers, it seems like itās generally at the service of engagement figures. 
still, better to be informed, regardless of the motivations.
I imagine no one would have batted and eye if they used a different title name and the location was also not named Fallujah and the devs didnāt mention that the plot is based on what happened there.
Iām surprised that game journalists never talk about the stuff players need to do in CoD games, exception being the airport mission in MW2, and how many non-Americans, mostly Middle Easterners, Russians and Latinos, you need to kill to complete objectives and finally the game.
Why punish someone and forgive the other when the other is guilty of the same thing?
people did complain actually that MW2019 had a white phosphorus scorestreak, I vaguely recall people using the exact same wording of āwar crime simulatorā
but at this point everyone knows COD is just US military propaganda, so when a new IP comes out that is guilty of doing the same things, itās more important to call that out than it is to repeat the same criticisms towards COD every year
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the major difference is, as you pointed out, this is a simulation (i use the word loosely) of a real life war that whitewashes the multiple crimes the us committed.
itās being made by a company that makes training simulations for the us military and is being released at a time when us recruitment figures are low. 
call of duty comes under fire regularly. along with āno russianā, we have mw2019s whitewashing of real life us war crimes and use of white phosphorus, mw3ās depiction of the death of a child in scenes strikingly similar to the 7/7 bombings in london, the presentation of reagan in cold warā¦ etc.
cod devs arguably are quite active in courting controversy. gets āem free media real estate
Todayās the day, by the way!
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Please be good, please donāt screw it up, please be like the OG trilogy!
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum got a new, short teaser video.
It reminds me so much of one of my all-time favourite stealth games, Styx.
And itās live, folks! @Screaming_Meat
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itās sitting in my playstation. iām just spiking the wife and kidās drinks with sedatives so i can start playing guilt free.
And a bit of an update as well for the Australian release 
MLB The Show 21 is in Gamepass.
This is the only time Iāll talk about a sports game because for people who donāt know. The title in question is a Sony Platform Exclusive since 1998.
If this continues who knows what the gaming ecosystem would look like in the future.
Itās not out till later this year, but my body is so ready. Looks amazing
Rumor at best, but donāt give me hope Remedyā¦
I so want this to be true, but Iām not gonna believe this until I see it with my own eyes. Iāve already heard my fair share of AW2 rumors over the years. I can easily see Remedy building a new IP right now instead (that might be connected to AW/Control, but still, a totally separate IP.)
It seems like anyone is eligible for playtesting the next Forza Motorsport title. You only need to sign up to the Forza panel to have a chance. @ElectronicCat 
Thatās pretty cool. Is Forza any good? I mean, I was always a Gran Turismo guy cause Iāve never owned an Xbox. I kinda want to get Forza Horizons 4 on the PC though just to see how accurate their version of Edinburgh is.