Following his trial for defamation of the families of the children and school staff killed in the Sandy Hook massacre, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is using Valve Corp.’s Steam, the world’s largest digital distribution platform for PC games, to sell an Infowars-themed video game. Jones claims to have earned hundreds of thousands in revenue from the video game, yet he has refused to pay the Sandy Hook families. Alex Jones: NWO Wars also mirrors and cartoonishly repackages the conspiracy theorist’s regularly violent, hateful rhetoric despite the platform’s policies against hate speech.

An Article by Media Matters: Conspiracy monger Alex Jones (of Infowars) has been the subject of a recently released game that promotes him and his vile conspiracies, but also benefits him financially, although he claims to be bankrupt and refuses to pay damages to the people he harmed.

    • DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      10 months ago

      Fucking $22+, for a 1980’s era game featuring this fucking turd? Are you kidding me!?! Even worse most of the comments are positive, man the gaming community is full of dumb fuckers.

      • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubEnglish
        18·
        10 months ago

        It is probably more that you aren’t going to buy the game unless you are a fan of Alex Jones, and those people are going to be happy to pay for his shit.

        • DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          10 months ago

          It just amazes me the amount that people shell out for this loud turd, between the survival buckets and the useless if not harmful supplements, there’s always more idiots willing to buy his shit, and this bastard always has a new revenue stream.

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
        25·
        10 months ago

        It’d be a shame if it got reported by a lot of people telling steam they may need to talk to lawyers regarding garnishing of proceeds.

      • PoliticalAgitator@lemmy.world
        13·
        10 months ago

        It won’t, because the people who review bomb games are overwhelmingly right-wing reactionaries throwing a tantrum because there’s someone in their video game they wouldn’t fuck.

        Besides, “making his game have a mostly negative review score” is not even close to justice for someone who is dodging debts he legally owes after he profited off attacking parents whose children died screaming in pain and terror after being torn apart at school with an AR-15.

      • Sylvartas@lemmy.world
        7·
        10 months ago

        Meh. It looks “ok” I guess. I don’t see the appeal if you’re not into Alex Jones tbh, you can get far better for less money on steam (even ignoring any sales).

        I admit I’m kinda surprised to see that it’s apparently not a complete ripoff