Personally I was willing to give the blogger the benefit of the doubt about the offense. I'm sorry to say that I saw the title of the blog entry and decided that it was just another incident of manufactured controversy under the pretense of cultural insensitivity. Didn't even click the link.I can only guess at Activision's motives for sending the game to that particular outlet, but to me it's just an illustration that nobody can claim the moral high ground when it comes to cheap (as in "poor") publicity.

Wolfenstein sequel has finally arrived. The good old formula with WWI and occult is still working. It was worth to wait so long.

It does not make sense to send a video game that isn't about Dora or Disney stuff to a mommy blogger - I'd say even those being a stretch. I don't tend to equate mommy blogging as THE place to get a video game review, unless perhaps I've been drinking prior to googling. Activision should really know their target audience better. One would think that instead of wasting perfectly good products, some sort of initial contact would happen. "Hey, would you be interested in reviewing such-and-such?" But that probably makes way too much sense. The sooner companies stop trying to milk the "mommy blogger" crowd and their...ahem..."eager" followers, the less likely these sort of tragic mishaps are bound to happen.

Personally I was willing to give the blogger the benefit of the doubt about the offense. I'm sorry to say that I saw the title of the blog entry and decided that it was just another incident of manufactured controversy under the pretense of cultural insensitivity. Didn't even click the link.

I can only guess at Activision's motives for sending the game to that particular outlet, but to me it's just an illustration that nobody can claim the moral high ground when it comes to cheap (as in "poor") publicity.

I agree with you that it is completely odd that they sent it to you specifically when it doesn't seem to fit the type of video games that you do blog about. And to be honest, I never questioned the multiplayer aspect of the game or thought about how people would feel "roleplaying the nazis". Your blog gives us alot to think about as to how the general public may feel about games and how the game industry continues to not understand how to reach the general public. As hardcore gamers we are sort of conditioned to expect that in multiplayer one side plays the bad guys. I have even had a hand's on with the single player, but I've never once thought about how someone would feel either being asked to play a Nazi or seeing Nazi symbols in the game. Your blog brings up important points that we should talk about as a community. Thank you for posting and I'm sorry for what you have gone through.

Ooh, and it wasn't "meanwhile" I'm not in control of when they publish at LA moms. I wrote that very early this morning. I'm just a contributor there.

You can have my copy. I'll even give you the press kit. You might like it, though I hope you'd find at least pieces of it objectionable.