How Will Video Games Fare In The Age Of Trump?

Let's admit that this looked like a bad election for video games at the outset, once it came down to Trump versus Clinton. As a senator in 2005, Clinton coauthored federal legislation to criminalize the sale of violent video games to minors. In a press conference that year she even claimed that the effects of violent games on kids' behavior was as bad as the result of lead poisoning on IQ, a claim that is…well…nuts. The worst video game news on the Trump front comes from one of Trump's tweets from 2012 following the awful Sandy Hook shooting in which a 20-year-old male killed numerous children and elementary school personnel as well as his mother and himself. Soon after, Trump tweeted "Video game violence & glorification must be stopped – it is creating monsters!" But in all fairness Trump was hardly the only person to blame video games.