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| | Salon Technology | Quake, Doom and blood lust (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | Violent games aren't a problem, says the computer gaming press -- while lovingly hawking the latest innovations in pixelated gore. |
 | | It's necessary to state this, because soon after the media descended on Littleton, Colo., the computer games debate devolved into uninformed, anti-game alarmism on the one hand and overwrought denials from the put-upon gaming/online community on the other. |
 | | But now, with some distance on the massacre, and on the eve of the annual E3 conference -- the video and computer game industry's premiere showcase -- constructing a more nuanced conversation is possible, I think. |
| www.salon.com /tech/feature/1999/05/12/game_violence/index.html (630 words) |
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