The Player: A pioneer of first-person shooter games talks guns, violence and catharsis

That's what the most ubiquitous genre of video games are colloquially called. They are the reason critics constantly say that video games are obsessed with guns. Since the early 1990s when titles like "Doom" and "Wolfenstein 3-D" popularized the concept of a gun-based game from a first-person perspective, shooters have dominated. It's a gun-obsessed medium that mirrors a gun-obsessed society. But as mass shootings become an increasingly regular part of the news cycle, it's fair to ask: Did the industry create a monster?