What Take-Two Had To Say To Donald Trump

<p>Several months ago&comma; representatives from the video game industry met with U&period;S President Donald Trump&period; The topic was on violent video games&comma; and one person in attendance was Take-Two Interactive CEO&comma; Strauss Zelnick&period; However&comma; very few details have been released about the meeting&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2>Violent Video Games<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>That is&comma; until now&period; While Mr&period; Zelnick hasn&&num;8217&semi;t said much about the meeting&comma; he&&num;8217&semi;s finally saying something about it&period; Speaking to Mad Money&&num;8217&semi;s Jim Cramer&comma; Mr&period; Zelnick said the meeting was &&num;8220&semi;interesting&period;&&num;8221&semi; The cause of the meeting was the Parkland&comma; Florida high school shooting&period; At the time&comma; Mr&period; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;donald-trump-missed-mark-violent-video-games&sol;">Trump blamed violent video games<&sol;a>&comma; and the comments weren&&num;8217&semi;t met well&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In the Mad Money interview&comma; Mr&period; Zelnick said&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;<em>I haven&&num;8217&semi;t talked a lot about it publicly&period; The truth is&comma; when you&&num;8217&semi;re asked to show up and have a conversation on a serious topic&comma; you show up&period; Our position is plain&period;<&sol;em>&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2>Creating Monsters<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>That position is the opposite of Mr&period; Trump&&num;8217&semi;s position&period; Mr&period; Trump has repeatedly claimed video games are &&num;8220&semi;creating monsters&&num;8221&semi; back in 2012&period; Furthermore&comma; after the Parkland&comma; Florida shooting&comma; the president blamed violent video games&period; At the time&comma; he said&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<em>I’m hearing more and more people say the level of violence on &lbrack;sic&rsqb; video games is really shaping young people’s thoughts&period;<&sol;em>”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Take-Two is a member of the Entertainment Software Association&comma; which represents the video game industry&&num;8217&semi;s interests in Washington&period; The group attended the meeting with Donald Trump and&comma; while we don&&num;8217&semi;t know exactly what was said&comma; it is likely the ESA pointed to studies that have shown there is no link between violent video games and violent behavior&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>To date&comma; this is the most anyone has said about the meeting&period; However&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s still not much to go on as far as details are concerned&period; Furthermore&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s still unclear what&comma; if anything&comma; will come out of the meeting&comma; which occurred in March&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Source&colon; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;gamespot&period;com&sol;articles&sol;heres-what-the-ceo-of-gta-5s-parent-company-had-to&sol;1100-6459146&sol;">GameSpot<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;