Do you know paintball? This dangerous killer game where you marked with paint balls other people? And she also knows Augmented Reality? It is located according to Wikipedia, a "computer-based extension of the perception of reality." Ultimately, this one does nothing more than to capture your surroundings. The instrument with which one does this, a kind of layer sets over the picture and expands it refers to useful functions. So you can find for example in a foreign city through the filming of famous buildings by a mere click on this more about the building. But there are still a lot more playful applications. For example, the gunman app for the Apple iPhone .

For those who have seen the video, despite not quite what it is Gunman:
Before the games, the color of the sweater opponent is marked so that the software knows what that looks like the others. Now you can start the game. It is a few steps apart, so that one no longer sees the other. The iPhone continues to act as a kind of marker, as in paintball. If you have discovered the enemy now, "aims" to him and pressed on the display once to select it. IPhone has to be made the enemy, vibrates. Then starts a new round. Gunman takes advantage of the camera and wireless advantage. Communicate with the latter, Apple's mobile phones. In the not too distant future, the software should be as far advanced that even team death matches and capture the flag - rounds will be possible. Fascinatingly, the app probably only costs 79 cents.

Granted, the whole may well be a little nerdy. But that does not detract from the ingenuity of the developers. I play in person but still prefer paintball.

What do you think of the app? Is something morally defensible?

"Right next to the Stuttgart parliament they have set up a container. They collect killer games like "World of Warcraft", "Counter Strike", "Call of Duty". Games, where the sparks fly - people scraps, and more realistic in its presentation. They can deliver the Action Alliance, so they will be destroyed. "

This is the original sound of a documentary or a documentary about the horrific school shooting in Winnenden, which ran yesterday evening by 21 clock in the ARD. And it is again a good example of sloppy journalism and gamers rush. After all, would be the people of the ARD once properly informed, then they would know that in World of Warcraft is not the sparks fly. Even if one could infer from Mr. T's advertising on it. Which is not so. Dear ARD hacks: In WoW (the geeky gamer abbreviation have been World of Warcraft) is an online fantasy role-playing game in the comic book look. Fantasy comic! People there have very little search. And a comic realism is surely not really, right? Otherwise would have my favorites of the Warner Bros.-forged long ago to fall down the houses and the Meep, Meep-cattle should have been flashed already.
Aside from the fact there is not yet in Counter Strike Call of Duty tattered man. But the matter goes further.

It is claimed towards the end that the U.S. Army uses first-person shooter to lower the threshold of the soldiers. This was clearly demonstrated and therefore not at all to question. In addition, it is claimed that players who play a lot, play more aggressive games.
As you can imagine, this is utter nonsense both. Let's start with the last claim on. People who want to play a lot, mainly to play aggressive games. I can not imagine not. What about sports games, strategy or role playing? Let's take as an example Anno. In this game, a game is longer than for a first-person shooter that takes in the most laps only 5 minutes. Sure, there are also longer rounds. In general, this is not the case. In Anno, a building game, building a city can ever take several days.
Let's talk about the famous U.S. Army argument, which is taken always welcome. Supposedly the Army to use games to reduce inhibitions. This is simply utter nonsense. First time training the Army is still shooting at real shooting ranges, because they have found that it still makes a difference whether you shoot in real or virtual (yes, a normal person can distinguish between!). And secondly, there are no studies that suggest a reduction of the threshold, even some who argue against it. A statement on game studies :

Summarized here is found that the currently circulating statements on the reduction of the work is based on inhibition of killing, can withstand normal scientific criticism in any way. Here, military simulations with computer games thrown into a pot and correlations allowed causal relationships, some of which are dragged in the hair. It is quite clear this is a myth based on the Medieninkompetenz its propagators.

So you see: The ARD report, it was usual baiting of computer games. Those that we hear for months. Who wants to look at the report itself, which can here do (from minute 35 starts the horror).

[Via stigma video games ]

[Youtube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0RYw52LnEo [/ youtube]

Sweet, right? This is the game Hedgewars , a clone of the popular party game, Worms. Brutally expresses the whole box. Especially the comic book look of the aggressiveness of this game is new proportions. That some people see this game as well, and glorify killer game on. But we roll the whole story on some new.

The starting point for the whole thing, I the Austrian gaming platform gigg.at. It receives subsidies totaling € 612 000. The ÖVP politician Wolfgang Aigner is then appalled that such a platform, just as the killer games Hedgewars houses, supported by tax dollars. In his opinion, Hedgewars is a classic killer game, as from the book. With a seemingly endless choice of weapons a bazooka, mines or weapons been converted into watermelon or pie (!) Make the game particularly brutal and therefore not worthy of support .

Now even my opinion (I think I speak for all who can distinguish between reality and virtual reality): A comic look and 2D graphics but would have every Potter noted that the game is created only in the computer and not transferable to the reality. Another criterion is the weapons. Aigner himself speaks of watermelons and cakes, which act as bombs. So frankly, if I would say this sentence, I do not know if I would fall into loud laughter. This guy does it with this statement is totally implausible. How can anyone take seriously the claims that exploding cakes increases the aggressiveness of teenagers? Any reasonably healthy person take such a statement seriously.

But apart from this fanciful story: Hedge Wars looks fun and seems to be free (as I have realized that). And in between a nice Zeitvertrei ... shit! I was attacked by the killer addiction. Think positive, think positive!

Actually, you'd think the topic killer games should be eaten in months. If it is not. To whom this is now, was once found there. What is certain: There are still rushing discussions when it comes to the subject. And what I've not been annoyed by so many items. As is sometimes fast World of Warcraft killer to the game (or more recently to Saufspiel) declared. From time to time also completely false facts are cut into TV programs. So games are presented as salable in this country, although they are not level. for those who want to get angry, which again is this video here to heart. Let you not put off by the voice. The video is worth seeing:

[Youtube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c5rwlKFsLE [/ youtube]

Whatever. The website now has a stigma video games guide for journalists wrote that includes how to behave in the event of a report on video games. By "behavior" of course I mean the type of design of the article. A journalist should not use the term killer game as a technical term for video games. This word is merely a propaganda development of the press and in no way provides a breeding ground for a fair and objective discussion. Similarly, the term "violent video games" are no longer used. If you read it in an article of this term, one can assume that the journalist is an idiot. Had he been informed in advance, he knew that violent games are the ones who have just been banned and therefore can not be banned.

The article on stigma video games are treated more points, worth reading, such as the current legal situation or the respect of integrity in articles and in any case. Especially for journalists and those who pretend to love than that. Now was just hoping that really take time scribblers this article to heart. But they will not anyway. One thing we must not forget: Even if journalism should be fair, it is the first task of an editor, to do publicity for the newspaper. And that makes it (because of our present society) demonize mainly with articles, the computer games. Yet.

The pirates have devised for the demonstration against the killer game ban a very special event: A game of "human" chess with real fake blood. They want to crystallize the very brutal actions of the classic game come into the years. They want to make clear that chess is a killer game in the crude sense and should be banned. According to the definition of the Interior Ministers Conference is a killer game is a medium by killing action are realistically portrayed and also includes other atrocities. Below it should be banned. But that would also apply to the game of chess. And why is not banned?

The whole article you can at taz read. I think the action in any case very amusing