Chilly reception for marijuana tycoon game shows games industry’s backwards stance on drugs

Chilly reception for marijuana tycoon game shows games industry’s backwards stance on drugs

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https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/15/chilly-reception-for-marijuana-tycoon-game-shows-games-industrys-backwards-stance-on-drugs/

Intense and graphic violence is something we’ve come to simply expect from games, but sexual and other adult themes are still largely taboo — including, as publisher Devolver Digital is learning, drugs. Even if the game in question is a relatively serious tycoon-type look at the current (and legal!) business of selling weed.

Devolver is no stranger to controversy; it has published and helped develop dozens of games and many of them have featured the kind of graphic violence that sets off those who still see the medium as a corruptive, fundamentally debased one. And to be fair, the likes of Hotline Miami aren’t going to change any minds.

Chilly reception for marijuana tycoon game shows games industry’s backwards stance on drugs

Apr 16, 2019, 12:18am UTC
https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/15/chilly-reception-for-marijuana-tycoon-game-shows-games-industrys-backwards-stance-on-drugs/ > Intense and graphic violence is something we’ve come to simply expect from games, but sexual and other adult themes are still largely taboo — including, as publisher Devolver Digital is learning, drugs. Even if the game in question is a relatively serious tycoon-type look at the current (and legal!) business of selling weed. > Devolver is no stranger to controversy; it has published and helped develop dozens of games and many of them have featured the kind of graphic violence that sets off those who still see the medium as a corruptive, fundamentally debased one. And to be fair, the likes of Hotline Miami aren’t going to change any minds.