This article talks about marketing guns to young gamers, interviews a 13 yr old about call of duty, excuse me, its a (15) game right?
"For example, we used 'M4A1 Carbine' which is the weapon's military code. Carbine means it's a shorter version for use in Close Quarters Battle. I forget if we refer to the weapons by name in the script but we were being so careful that we checked, double-checked and in many cases triple-checked with legal that we could use the weapon model numbers."
Suddenly weapon naming conventions in games make more sense.
And the article title is a little misleading, 'Video game makers must pay royalties for use of real word gun brands names' would be closer to the truth.
But today we know that a portion of every dollar spent on triple-A military-themed video games flows into the pockets of small arms manufacturers, either directly through licence payments, or indirectly through advertising.
Still, strong stuff.
Roll on a firing range game, which doesn't rely on shooting people.
