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Published: 2017-01-28
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I everyone I'm Spiro with news but dot com today we're going to be discussing a nearly one hundred billion dollar a year industry that affects one point eight billion people around the world of all age groups genders race you name it that industry is the video game industry specifically we're going to be looking at a news but exclusive article titled Nick Robinson on video games and
the military entertainment complex now joining me is the author of this news but exclusive article Eric moshing and Nick Robinson who is an associate professor in politics and International Studies in video games research at the university of Leeds in the UK I'm Mister Robinson can you tell us a little bit about your research and what is focused on and why it's important yeah sure I'm Percy
thanks very much for having me on really appreciates it I thanks also to all right for the excellent job you did in looking into my stuff I've been looking really a couple things I'm there too big issues I'm concerned at the first one is how is it that video games themselves opportunities them and how important other relationships in the games industry house with the military I'm
not many your listeners might not be familiar with our relationship but it is a very long standing in long I goes back all my so the origins of the gaming industry itself right back to the nineteen seventies when people start making arcade cabinets they very quickly got into my symbiotic relationship with the military with products I'm caught my kids from sight your for exams who immediately
going out from working for the military and I coming back into the games industry so this is a long standing relationship so that I'm really interested in related to the eye is is how they always Militari messages kind of resonate with the public does he actually Massa if a member of the public is playing games which essentially celebrating wool I'm on the third strand of it
he's more of a kind of a slightly east Terrick I spoke to a theoretical series of questions in other words do you gains provide different ways for us to think politically I'm not asking Portrush needs nationals I'm studies for example on one of the arguments I've looked into these weather games health costs to actually interrogate the foundations of American exception is foreign policy in you an
exciting Weiss are I would have to say I mean a lot of us are familiar with the relationship between Hollywood and the military industrial complex not like known as the military entertainment complex %HESITATION they often a work together they have this close relationship to up push maybe certain perspectives are viewpoints on war up can you tell us a little bit more about the relationship between the
military industrial complex in the gaming world why would the military wanna spend time and resources on video game development well it's interesting thing I mean one of the things is really about the military entertainment complex in Hollywood is quite often it's actually concealed from the public so in other words you get a journalist for example and often is journalist to expose these relationships I'm but it's
unusual for the industry to celebrate now what's really fantastically interesting and quite different about the games industry is they normally seek to work with a minute treats him like that games more authentic and I actively celebrate out pop the marketing campaign so if you look for example at the college GC games or that the recent medal of honor repeated franchise or battlefield all of those games
these massive series apply by millions millions of people every year all of them I really active collaboration of military advisors and consultants bullseye that might do the tacit support the military for example in the usage of technology so you got to fly an attack helicopter for example drive around and in a tank and sold a site with an old nice things are you know that you're
not able to do that because the military acquiescence in you using that technology is in these guides so authenticity which is crucial to the gaming industry come specifically out of those relationships among is quite different in terms of the white ex publicly celebrates it compared to the film industry which also cited like in the superhero film that always might very well have been a tree but
seldom east not celebrates in quite the same wide now I heard you have been writing a series of articles that I've been very interesting that have been enjoying myself now how does this article tying to your previous stellar work that you've accomplished with professor Publius say in the P. you did on Nevada I think one of the things that I but I want to contribute to
the website and to media in general is just to try to get a different variety of things that are very dominant in our culture I mean we had movie industry with Vincent gains we have our drones in casinos we have our gambling we have risk taking we have algorithms we have just the way the people like to get a thrill when they get off of work
they they enjoyed the military side of things because we don't often get to be in an exciting environment where our life is at risk and we can do that in a simulated environment so that's that's what kind of brought me to mark how how military are recruiting campaigns are are carried out which was with Susan T. Jackson who is or was a member of the Armed
militarization two point oh project for the Stockholm research just to add on Nick Robinson was recommended by her is where it gets into video games and other industry which is very much tied with the movie industry and also entertainment in general men men and women we we enjoy warm and that's what we do is I want to get the perspective from someone who knows so much
about different games different sides of games how therefore war or if there even are active this stick kind of games where they're against war where you have so many choices your decisions are not just to kill someone there also to apprehend them or to negotiate or even to avoid conflict so that's a that's word that's where this article came and well it's a it's a great
article it's did really dives deep into ethical questions of these games site how some of moral choices are removed throughout some of the games and I really find it interesting how the military industrial complex is partnering up with the gaming industry there has been a long debate about the violence in video games and Eric you mentioned how you can simulate of that violence a doctor Robinson
can you tell me up whether there is any correlation between violence in video games and violent behavior can I just make a quick comment about the giants I power does well onsite question because it's really interesting the the Piper that you you're talking about the one on the bottom and joins the other thing I think that that is quite striking actually is that trying to becoming
almost ubiquitous now in our lives and I think what's really interesting is when the military I'm utilization of drawings and and you mentioned are cannot piece about why they become condoms sold normalizes call of Nevada's local gambling culture but the other thing I think is quite striking so trying to become recreation lawsuits on clean games like one of the things that's really cool about games is
that they might dangerous and deadly technologies a tracksuit exciting now in a great number of games can temperate games recently the cold GT series in particular across that include warfare for example black ops I need beating the kills sighing I have recent gang kills I shudder so use a dryer the player easier actually involved in scenarios where they get to play with the tried and Cartwright
themselves clean I surgical killing now I think it's really quite interesting how the big gaming industry itself is by implication therefore directly into related to conversation we're having publicly right across the piece about how clean and surgical imprecise Strine strikes actually all what we know because he's a dry instruction very lead to massive collateral damage to all kinds of fun problems with the kill China arrested
about how how yet confident we can pay actually he's he's being assassinated and yeah in video games or a fire arm complex at sea is completely and utterly removed so you get control of the driving is absolutely clear who you're killing the decisions and that are incorrect I'm that this strike is always precise I like do you think there's something quite striking about how the discourses
that come out drives more generally are being re appropriated in the gaming industry and that is quite different for example to the film recent film I am the sky which I don't know if you've seen it with Helen Mirren minutes without my diplomacy directly looks out the complexities of drugs I'm actually looks how difficult life ethical questions also that they're well Hollywood for example he's doing
something quite challenging you know to expose some of these problems similarly in Hong lands you know the American child in video games knowledge eyes ethical complexities I have a pimple bat are in the game spice not think body is extremely important apart from in some critical games I am by by a media all house types this thing about the video games and violence question is it's