Call of Duty Journalism is Redpilling Gamers

Being one of the most popular games on the block doesn’t come easy for Call of Duty. Activision’s blockbuster games have long courted controversy, primarily by the sole virtue of their being games about war. Granted, they’re not to be confused with war games, but their games are most certainly about war, and they revel in it.

The glorification of war is a contentious choice for many, especially after years of fatigue with the wars in the Middle East and Afghanistan, and the ongoing hostility of forces abroad that don’t have America’s best interests at heart. It’s this same glorification of war that’s allowed countless game journalists, the self-appointed adjudicators of the medium, to weigh in with their two cents (however qualified or otherwise) to declare that games that glorify war should not get made.