10 Dumbest Controversies That Dogged Popular Video Games

3. Fox News: "Mass Effect Is A 'Sex Simulator'"

Sometimes dumb is dumb, and no one does "straight-up misinformed" quite like Fox News. Have a listen:

Just a couple of uninformed individuals, discussing a game they haven't played, with Geoff Keighley trying his best not to scream, "THAT ISN'T WHAT THE GAME IS."

Still, because there were sex scenes you could trigger in Mass Effect by getting intimate with a number of crew mates, it got the attention of Fox News, and thus an entire web of lies span out about how these scenes took place. Such nonsense included stating the player could control "exactly what's going to happen" during the sex scenes, and that they featured "full graphic nudity".

Both things were demonstrably false, and EA got involved, saying the report was "a new level of recklessness", as well as labelling it "insulting" to everyone who worked on the game. They called for Fox News to amend their archives, and though Fox offered no further comment, the "expert" they had on, Cooper Lawrence, revealed she was fed information about the game being "like pornography", before confirming she misspoke.