Norwegian Retailers Pull Violent Games From Shelves

[Dracule]

A recent attack in Norway by terrorist Anders Behring Breivik -- who killed 77 people at a political youth camp -- has caused various Norwegian retailers to pull violent video games from their stores' shelves, according to reports by Aftenposten and Gamers Globe. In Breivik's manifesto, he claims to have trained with such games as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. Norwegian retailer Coop Norway responded by pulling 51 products from its stores, including games such as Homefront, Call of Duty: Black Ops, and Sniper: Ghost Warrior.

"In light of Friday's horrific events, and [with] respect for those affected, we have chosen to remove simple items from our [lineup]," said Director of Sales at Coop Norway Geir Inge Stokke last week.

Breivik, whose attacks were fueled by an anti-Islamic agenda, could be sentenced to 21 years or more in prison, according to a report by the Guardian.

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[Sheldon Cooper]

...Please Don't Bring Politics into NB...

 

[-Hatake-]

That is wrong, just because of someone's horrible actions, doesn't mean that everyone is going to start doing the same thing.

They should still sell them games, Not everyone is going to play them and say "Oh yeah, lets do That in real life"

But that guy deserves the 21 years in prison.

 

[Dracule]

...Please Don't Bring Politics into NB...

What does this have to do with politics? If you don't care about news that has to do with a terrorist attack in Norway, then don't click on the thread.

In case you missed it, the title has "News" in it.

 

[Madara Uchiha]

Didnt he say in an interview somewhere that he trained by playing games such as "Call of Duty: Modern warfare 2" and other similar.

I dont blame them for pulling the sales because of that statement...

 

[NamkazeNaruto]

idk , but i think this has been made to REDUCE the Islamic Phobia in the european countries , that have been created by none other than Christians .
A guy Hating on muslim killed over 10 ppl ? i mean what in the hell ?
This religious discontent will bring our world to nowhere but chaos . Fuk the Vahabis ( Like catholics in Christianity another segment of Muslims ) They are the crazy ones bombing every1 , not sunnis and shias like me myself .
And Fuk Nutcases lake Bravic , fuk em all lets contribute to each others lives like we have done for thousands of years and let not Fanatics blind you from one and only fact WE Are All Human Beings

 

[Sonne]

Damn...sucks for Xbox 360 S Owners.

 

[Ryuusaki]

It's just the time for mass-media to start using their undeserved influence to create another element to blame in the tragedy that happened. Media is ignorant, biased and sometimes lacks a lot of criticism towards their own sources.

For instance, right after the perpetrator of the attacks on Norway was caught and made official, there were mentions of World of Warcraft in a lot of articles, and the main tabloid newspaper of Norway (VG - Verdens Gang) managed to say something like this: "It was recently discovered that Anders Behring Breivik had a love for video games such as World of Warcraft, where the motive is to kill other living beings. In association with this game he posted a picture of this gunbarrel".

Sure, if they were pointing fingers at Call of Duty or whatnot I wouldn't be as surprised, but to blame WoW, an adventure RPG based vaguely on medieval themes with fairy tail creatures and other mythcal things, where guns hardly even exist beside old blunderbusses, they step in a pile of dog shit and ultimately show people that won't eat all their crap that they really don't know what the **** they're talking about.

 

[Aenigma]

I can understand their reasoning, but that's a bit of an overreaction.

 

[Kookie]

Oh, dear... When will they learn.. I can't believe there are still authorities out there who play the 'blame the video games' card..

(am from Norway myself, by the way)

I thought it was generally accepted that people who become more violent from computer games already have a few screws lose, to put it bluntly..

I guess computer games are such an easy scape goat, they just can't help themselves. *sigh*

 

[Kookie]

...Please Don't Bring Politics into NB...

And I'll have to disagree with you there, Yellow Flash. I insist that the General Discussion area is an open area where all things can be discussed freely, including politics. In fact, I'd say news and politics are perfectly good topics for this sub-forum.

 

[Dracule]

Oh, dear... When will they learn.. I can't believe there are still authorities out there who play the 'blame the video games' card..

(am from Norway myself, by the way)

I thought it was generally accepted that people who become more violent from computer games already have a few screws lose, to put it bluntly..

I guess computer games are such an easy scape goat, they just can't help themselves. *sigh*

I agree but I guess thats the best excuse they can come up with.

 

[Darthlawsuit]

w-w-wha....?! Their t-taking away my violent video games?!?!?! *foams at mouth* C-c-n-n-need violent video games... must.... kill.... must kill politicians.... need to shoot.... must kill...



xd Yeah, real smart. Take away the thing that lets people take anger out on virtual characters instead of real people. Now all these gamers are going to be bored, pissed off, angry, and will not have any new games to play. Good job Norway now your going to have a bunch of pissed off gamers angry and without anything to do besides protest or buy games illegally. Really going to solve the problem...

I'm not sure you haven't noticed yet but for the past 10,000 years humans have killed each other on a daily basis without video games or ANY electronics/tv. Taking away those things will not help matters. Infact video games give people an outlet for their anger. I know quite a few people that when they get really pissed off go play halo or some FPS to vent their anger, and it doesn't hurt anyone. Now they will keep that anger and vent it in the real world. Good job norway good job -_-;;

 

[Jack Spicer]

Sucks for them. Good thing the US just doesn't care about games xd

Always blame everything on games these days. It's sad.