You make a good point. The outrage machine is like the weather - it can alight on whatever is in its line of vision. It seems random sometimes, and video games do occasionally find themselves in the crosshairs because they make good fodder for the gullible.
I mean it convinced an entire generation of people that someone is coming to take their Gas stoves just to cover up a Harvard Medical School study showing a link to gas stove ownership and childhood asthma. The culture war machine is very effective, amongst "certain" groups of people.
Lots of games have let you push the boundaries and Fallout is a great example. You could kill children and sell your wife into slavery. Ultimately we each get to walk our own path in these games and it lets us explore taboos and "evil" behavior. In Fallout 3 you could nuke a town.
However, given that you can wipe out the entire Druid Grove, including all the children, this feels like a non-issue.
