‘I’m not a gamer,’ says God of War Amazon series’ new showrunner, unwittingly kicking a hornet’s nest despite years of acclaimed writing experience

Amazon’s upcoming God of War series is still in the pipeline after everyone previously making it quit last year—which, if you’ve been big into the weirdly decent era of prestige TV and animation coming out of videogames recently, should come as a relief. Kratos’ grim mien is still coming to the silver screen. The series,…

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Ratings board gives away Silent Hill f’s gut-churning tricks, listing face-slicing, arm-sawing and, worst of all, ‘exposed buttocks’

The ESRB—Entertainment Software Rating Board—is, notionally, there to stick age ratings on games that make sure little Timmy and Sally aren’t scarred for life by the torture scene in GTA 5. In reality, I’m beginning to suspect the whole thing is a gigantic operation made to scupper games industry PRs’ carefully laid marketing plans. Like…

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