Ironically, games themselves have been so crude there's been a perceptible gap between the issue of a given controversy and the actual scene or mechanic that agitates that issue.
Game controversies tend to be a digestive to help the heavier portions of a daily news cycle rest a bit more comfortably in one's subconscious. Games are still considered trivialities in the larger scope of foreign wars, Tea Party debates, and the drug infractions of pseudo-celebrities. Part of an explanation for all of these uprisings of propriety is found in the persistent obscurity in which game culture still churns. The protestations against Fallujah evaporated when Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 invaded Afghanistan - though Medal of Honor has recently drawn some fire. The simulated sex that brought Jack Thompson back onto cable news returned in Grand Theft Auto IV, Red Dead Redemption, and Heavy Rain. Blood and executions became more detailed in the wake of Joseph Lieberman's Mortal Kombat inquiry. In the cultural ghetto where games live, these controversies had a seismic effect, but the scenery was left unchanged afterward.
Mortal Kombat was drawn out before a congressional hearing in the mid-Nineties Jack Thompson systematically dismantled his career in the effort to protect children from Grand Theft Auto and, most recently, some have objected to games that use real-life tragedies as source material, such as Super Columbine Massacre and the unreleased Six Days in Fallujah. The recorded controversies in the video game world have, to now, been relatively mild.
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