{"id":158060,"date":"2023-09-25T14:29:31","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T18:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/?p=158060"},"modified":"2023-09-25T14:29:31","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T18:29:31","slug":"has-video-game-violence-jumped-the-shark-slightly-something-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/has-video-game-violence-jumped-the-shark-slightly-something-else\/","title":{"rendered":"Has Video Game Violence Jumped the Shark? &#8211; Slightly Something Else"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mnmd-responsive-video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Has Video Game Violence Jumped the Shark? | Slightly Something Else\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RCPbyM9tZqU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=o4yybmGCdAg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This week<\/a> on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/category\/slightly-something-else\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Slightly Something Else<\/a> podcast, Yahtzee and Marty discuss whether or not video game violence has jumped the shark, and if any games have anything interesting to say about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":158061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"article_type":"","gamurs_wordpress_blocks_hide_tags":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[7808,33566,10,13134],"tags":[52041,52660],"internal-label":[],"invoiceable_action":[],"article_type":[],"coauthors":[{"id":155,"display_name":"Marty Sliva","user_login":"m.silva","user_nicename":"m-silva"}],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.2 (Yoast SEO v22.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Has Video Game Violence Jumped the Shark? - Slightly Something Else<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This week on the Slightly Something Else, Yahtzee and Marty discuss video game violence has jumping the shark, and if any games have anything interesting to say about it.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/has-video-game-violence-jumped-the-shark-slightly-something-else\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Has Video Game Violence Jumped the Shark? - Slightly Something Else\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This week on the Slightly Something Else, Yahtzee and Marty discuss video game violence has jumping the shark, and if any games have anything interesting to say about it.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/has-video-game-violence-jumped-the-shark-slightly-something-else\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Escapist\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/EscapistMag\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-09-25T18:29:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/VIOLENT1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Marty Sliva\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@McBiggitty\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@EscapistMag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Marty Sliva\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/has-video-game-violence-jumped-the-shark-slightly-something-else\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/has-video-game-violence-jumped-the-shark-slightly-something-else\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Marty Sliva\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/#\/schema\/person\/2c5f531a41cc54004fe9ab379ae83722\"},\"headline\":\"Has Video Game Violence Jumped the Shark? &#8211; Slightly Something Else\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-09-25T18:29:31+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-09-25T18:29:31+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/has-video-game-violence-jumped-the-shark-slightly-something-else\/\"},\"wordCount\":54,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/has-video-game-violence-jumped-the-shark-slightly-something-else\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/VIOLENT1.jpg?fit=1280%2C720\",\"keywords\":[\"Mortal Kombat 1\",\"Slightly Something Else\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Podcast\",\"Slightly Something Else\",\"Video Games\",\"Video Series\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/has-video-game-violence-jumped-the-shark-slightly-something-else\/#respond\"]}],\"copyrightYear\":\"2023\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/has-video-game-violence-jumped-the-shark-slightly-something-else\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/has-video-game-violence-jumped-the-shark-slightly-something-else\/\",\"name\":\"Has Video Game Violence Jumped the Shark? - Slightly Something Else\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/has-video-game-violence-jumped-the-shark-slightly-something-else\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/has-video-game-violence-jumped-the-shark-slightly-something-else\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/VIOLENT1.jpg?fit=1280%2C720\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-09-25T18:29:31+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-09-25T18:29:31+00:00\",\"description\":\"This week on the Slightly Something Else, Yahtzee and Marty discuss video game violence has jumping the shark, and if any games have anything interesting to say about it.\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/has-video-game-violence-jumped-the-shark-slightly-something-else\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/has-video-game-violence-jumped-the-shark-slightly-something-else\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/VIOLENT1.jpg?fit=1280%2C720\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/VIOLENT1.jpg?fit=1280%2C720\",\"width\":1280,\"height\":720,\"caption\":\"This week on the Slightly Something Else, Yahtzee and Marty discuss video game violence has jumping the shark, and if any games have anything interesting to say about it.\"},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/\",\"name\":\"The Escapist\",\"description\":\"Everything fun\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"The Escapist\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/escapist2020_lightmode.png?fit=2084%2C593\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/escapist2020_lightmode.png?fit=2084%2C593\",\"width\":2084,\"height\":593,\"caption\":\"The Escapist\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/EscapistMag\/\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/EscapistMag\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/TheEscapistMagazine\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/#\/schema\/person\/2c5f531a41cc54004fe9ab379ae83722\",\"name\":\"Marty Sliva\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/2510e6169c0e0de7f7d3472f77c7658f\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/profile-pic-scaled.jpg?fit=96%2C96\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/profile-pic-scaled.jpg?fit=96%2C96\",\"caption\":\"Marty Sliva\"},\"description\":\"Marty Sliva was the Deputy Editor of The Escapist. He's been writing and hosting videos about games, movies, television, and popular culture since 2011, and was with The Escapist from 2019 until 2023. In a perfect world, he'd be covering Zelda, Persona, and the hit TV series Lost on a daily basis.\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/x.com\/McBiggitty\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/author\/m-silva\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Has Video Game Violence Jumped the Shark? - Slightly Something Else","description":"This week on the Slightly Something Else, Yahtzee and Marty discuss video game violence has jumping the shark, and if any games have anything interesting to say about it.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/has-video-game-violence-jumped-the-shark-slightly-something-else\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Has Video Game Violence Jumped the Shark? - Slightly Something Else","og_description":"This week on the Slightly Something Else, Yahtzee and Marty discuss video game violence has jumping the shark, and if any games have anything interesting to say about it.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/has-video-game-violence-jumped-the-shark-slightly-something-else\/","og_site_name":"The Escapist","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/EscapistMag\/","article_published_time":"2023-09-25T18:29:31+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1280,"height":720,"url":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/VIOLENT1.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Marty Sliva","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@McBiggitty","twitter_site":"@EscapistMag","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Marty Sliva","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/has-video-game-violence-jumped-the-shark-slightly-something-else\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/has-video-game-violence-jumped-the-shark-slightly-something-else\/"},"author":{"name":"Marty Sliva","@id":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/#\/schema\/person\/2c5f531a41cc54004fe9ab379ae83722"},"headline":"Has Video Game Violence Jumped the Shark? &#8211; Slightly Something Else","datePublished":"2023-09-25T18:29:31+00:00","dateModified":"2023-09-25T18:29:31+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/has-video-game-violence-jumped-the-shark-slightly-something-else\/"},"wordCount":54,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/has-video-game-violence-jumped-the-shark-slightly-something-else\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/VIOLENT1.jpg?fit=1280%2C720","keywords":["Mortal Kombat 1","Slightly Something Else"],"articleSection":["Podcast","Slightly Something Else","Video Games","Video Series"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/has-video-game-violence-jumped-the-shark-slightly-something-else\/#respond"]}],"copyrightYear":"2023","copyrightHolder":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/#organization"}},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/has-video-game-violence-jumped-the-shark-slightly-something-else\/","url":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/has-video-game-violence-jumped-the-shark-slightly-something-else\/","name":"Has Video Game Violence Jumped the Shark? - Slightly Something Else","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/has-video-game-violence-jumped-the-shark-slightly-something-else\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/has-video-game-violence-jumped-the-shark-slightly-something-else\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/VIOLENT1.jpg?fit=1280%2C720","datePublished":"2023-09-25T18:29:31+00:00","dateModified":"2023-09-25T18:29:31+00:00","description":"This week on the Slightly Something Else, Yahtzee and Marty discuss video game violence has jumping the shark, and if any games have anything interesting to say about it.","inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/has-video-game-violence-jumped-the-shark-slightly-something-else\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/has-video-game-violence-jumped-the-shark-slightly-something-else\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/VIOLENT1.jpg?fit=1280%2C720","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/VIOLENT1.jpg?fit=1280%2C720","width":1280,"height":720,"caption":"This week on the Slightly Something Else, Yahtzee and Marty discuss video game violence has jumping the shark, and if any games have anything interesting to say about it."},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/","name":"The Escapist","description":"Everything fun","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/#organization","name":"The Escapist","url":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/escapist2020_lightmode.png?fit=2084%2C593","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/escapist2020_lightmode.png?fit=2084%2C593","width":2084,"height":593,"caption":"The Escapist"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/EscapistMag\/","https:\/\/x.com\/EscapistMag","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/TheEscapistMagazine"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/#\/schema\/person\/2c5f531a41cc54004fe9ab379ae83722","name":"Marty Sliva","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/2510e6169c0e0de7f7d3472f77c7658f","url":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/profile-pic-scaled.jpg?fit=96%2C96","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/profile-pic-scaled.jpg?fit=96%2C96","caption":"Marty Sliva"},"description":"Marty Sliva was the Deputy Editor of The Escapist. He's been writing and hosting videos about games, movies, television, and popular culture since 2011, and was with The Escapist from 2019 until 2023. In a perfect world, he'd be covering Zelda, Persona, and the hit TV series Lost on a daily basis.","sameAs":["https:\/\/x.com\/McBiggitty"],"url":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/author\/m-silva\/"}]}},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/VIOLENT1.jpg?fit=1280%2C720","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158060"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158060"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158152,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158060\/revisions\/158152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158060"},{"taxonomy":"internal-label","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/internal-label?post=158060"},{"taxonomy":"invoiceable_action","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/invoiceable_action?post=158060"},{"taxonomy":"article_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_type?post=158060"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=158060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}