French President Emmanuel Macron has clarified his view on video games after previously blaming recent riots on the culture of video games.
Now, in a new statement on X, formerly Twitter, Macron said he startled gamers – or, he literally “made the gamers jump” – with his words and that really he “always considered that video games are an opportunity for France, for our youth and its future, for our jobs and our economy”.
He continued: “I expressed my concerns at the end of June because video game codes had been used by offenders to trivialise violence on social networks. It is this violence that I condemn, not video games.
