Why are so many people scared of video games? It’s a question that the industry has wrangled with for pretty much as long as it has existed.
Whether it’s fear that violent games are polluting the minds of young players all the way through to left-field stories about the possibility of games giving players deep vein thrombosis, there has often been a jarring disconnect between the medium and industry we see and what the world perceives of us.
This distinction reared its head again last week when a story landed in the media from the UK’s NHS-funded gaming disorder clinic that perfectly pressed the video game moral panic buttons.
source https://www.gamesindustry.biz/the-games-industry-needs-to-tell-its-story-better-to-head-off-public-concern-opinion
