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Norway purges its computer stores of violent games

by on02 August 2011



Creating a home for Right-Wing loonies

As a sign that they might have lost the plot a bit, Norway's computer stores are clearing the shelves of violent video games, including CoD and Wow, in response to the recent terrorist attacks. A total of 51 products will be purged from shelves including World of Warcraft and the Call of Duty series.

Ironically it is creating exactly the sort of world that Norwegian right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik wants. A universe which is controlled and where people cannot do what they want. Supermarket chain Coop Norden is spearheading the campaign to remove these video games.

The Coop Norden thinks that there are others are better suited than them, to point to the negative effects of games like these. At the moment it is better that they are taken down. Among the products being removed are games described as realist shooter/RPGs. Some of the titles include: Homefront, Call of Duty:Black Ops, Modern Warfare 2, World at War Platinum, Modern Warfare Classic, Sniper: Ghost Warrior, Counter-Strike Source and World of Warcraft.

Breivik claimed to be a fan of the massively multi-player online role-playing game World of Warcraft. He also claimed that Modern Warfare 2 was “the best military simulator” and claims to have used the game for training.
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