The co-CEO of Quantic Dream has taken the media to task over its presentation of violence in video games, saying that many things are taken out of context, leading to controversy.

Guillaume de Fondaumiere, in a video interview with French game site Digital Games (translated by Benzaie), said that mass media has an important role in forming public opinion, but problems arise when some media "are taking small portions of video game footages out their contexts." 

He said that video games are a form of expression and that violence can be found in any form of expression. He disagrees with the notion that violent games make a person violent:

"Playing a violent game won't turn you into a psycho, a murderer or a serial killer. Most studies show that very clearly on the contrary violent games allow players to express themselves. It's like an outlet for them in a way. All these violent actions that are said to have been inspired by playing violent video games are nothing but the expressions of issues unrelated to video games."

De Fondaumiere, who is past president of the French National Video Game Association,  said that video games are this generation's form of media that is being targeted for its violence, alluding to the fact that books, movies and music have all had their time when that form of expression was criticized on a regular basis.

He did say that violence in games has its limits:

"Violence must not be glorified. When you are talking to designers of the games we talked about, they'll tell you it's not what they had in mind. Sometimes they'll tell you that they wanted to give players total freedom. That players can totally decide to be violent or not and that in fact, by using violence in the game, usually they will be penalized."

Quantic Dream is developing Heavy Rain for the PS3.