Okay, firstly, just because you don't respect the opinions of right-wing politicians, doesn't mean no one does, and it doesn't mean it invalidates my claim. Would you say the same thing about gay marriage ("Show me opposition to gay marriage, but don't use right-wing politicians!"). That's just silly.

Secondly, you apparently looked at your search results with your eyes closed. I typed in the same terms and got some Christian news, as expected, which was published this year [0]. They're half the country (in the US at least), so don't tell me it doesn't count when we're talking about people attempting to blame it on video games. I also got an article by CBS News talking about the 'complex link' between video games and mass shootings, published in 2013 [1]. An article from Fox News (again you may not like them but they're a huge player in the cultural space) published in 2013 [2]. And an article that links through to a piece written by a member of the gaming press lamenting the presence of violence in video games in the wake of the Orlando Shooting [3]. These are all in the first 10 results from the search you claimed to do.

Getting really crazy, I changed the search to "violent video games mass shootings". Advanced level stuff I know. In addition to some of the aforementioned, this also yields a piece from NBC news (video, requires flash) [4], an op-ed from CNN saying not to link video games to mass shootings (the author didn't just wake up one day and write that, they wrote it because it was happening), which also has links to 'research' claiming there's a link between violence and video games [5] and another piece from Time, written in the wake of the Sandy Hook shootings [6].

Actually using some knowledge of matters, I searched for "Call of Duty Mass Shooting" and got this same article that keeps showing up at the top of the search results, from Charisma news (I've never heard of them but Google wants me to read their stuff apparently) [7], an article from CNN written in 2012 [8], an article from the Guardian written in 2012 [9], and several articles published in the Daily Mail [10] [11].

That should be plenty of reading material from within, not only the last 10 years, but the last five. So let's move on.

For some reason you rule out Hatred. Why? It was a game that got banned from Steam briefly for being too violent and depicting playing a mass killer. People were worried it would beget more violence of the kind depicted in the game.

And of course there's the ongoing battles with Grand Theft Auto. Banned in Target Australia, many news stories having been run about those games. San Andreas got a lot of attention in particular.

Lastly, I wouldn't even know where to begin getting you local newscasts pitching the same tired arguments, but there are plenty of them.

> I've never seen a serious news article making a claim like that in the last ten years.

We're talking about the larger culture looking to blame video games for societal ills. Why does it need to be a 'serious' news article? If half the country aligns with Fox News, and Fox News runs a piece decrying video game violence, and politicians push legislation on these ideas, does it then still matter that you don't consider Fox News to be a serious outlet? Also, I distinctly recall a clip from the Daily Show where Jon Stewart is objecting to the latest (at the time) Mortal Kombat game. No idea how to find that.

[0]: http://www.christiantoday.com/article/mass.killers.in.us.all...

[1]: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/violent-video-games-and-mass-vio...

[2]: http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/09/12/training-simulation-m...

[3]: http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/12/11914658/electronic-arts-e...

[4]: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/7288381/ns/us_news-crime_and_court...

[5]: http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/20/opinion/ferguson-video-games/

[6]: http://ideas.time.com/2012/12/20/sandy-hook-shooting-video-g...

[7]: http://www.charismanews.com/culture/52651-14-mass-murders-li...

[8]: http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/19/tech/gaming-gadgets/games-viol...

[9]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/apr/19/anders-breivik...

[10]: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1226588/Call-Duty-Po...

[11]: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2153218/Violent-vide...