six high school seniors wear tshirts spelling out "RAPE?"

[DavidG_WI]

129. Spoken like

Someone without a clue about gaming. Sex and violence have been there from the very start, because thats the basics of any interesting story. If you've got a story without sex and or violence what is your story about, what compels people to pick it up?
go look up all of history's great writings, sex and violence in every one of there works.

As to kids playing M rated games, thats the social disconnect of both the parents and of the ratings board, those of us in our 20s and 30s that have been life long gamers know that most of the games with an M rating had nothing to warrant it as you would see worse in after school cartoons. For the older parents, they assume that games are only for kids 12 and under and while they wouldn't give their kid an R rated DVD they'll give them an M rared game without batting an eye.

The big FPS franchises are dying of due to their stagnation and the game consoles are drying up as older gamers move to PC gaming as it's more cost effective and doesn't require the purchase of single use set top boxes. http://store.steampowered.com/ http://www.desura.com/ http://www.gog.com/ https://www.humblebundle.com/store is where gaming is headed. It's allot more cost effective to buy a $150 GPU and be able to buy games at up to 90% off or a bundle of 12 games for under $5 then a $300-500 console and pay $20-70 for single games.

Unfortunately women aren't coming along for the ride, while they are "gaming" more, they are only playing simple cellphone games, cellphones are terrible devices for gaming due to the limitations of a touchscreen only input device. The market however is effectively dead already ue to the very broken app store model, which favors only the entrenched incumbents, hence why the mainstays of cellphone gaming have always been Angry Birds, Words With Friends, Bejeweled clones and Fruit Ninja.