School shootings don’t happen in the Philippines, or so we thought. The San Jose National High School shooting in Tacloban last June 22, 2026, has shaken the country to its core. The inconceivable aftermath of the tragedy has seen three fatalities, 20 injuries, and two arrests. These have all...
GoreBox, the controversial game, can no longer be downloaded in the Google Play Store and Steam. For players who have it already downloaded, the game is not supposed to go beyond the loading screen. The ban was spurred from the recent school shooting incident in Tacloban, where the game was cited...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Tuesday, June 30 clarified that she never recommended banning Gorebox and other supposedly violent online games following the tragic shooting at a national high school in Tacloban City. Hontiveros, in a Facebook post, explained that the Senate Committee on Women,...
Senator Rodante Marcoleta warned against prematurely blaming video games for the deadly school shooting in Tacloban City. Speaking on his program Sa Ganang Mamamayan, Marcoleta said some of his colleagues in the Senate were too quick to attribute the June 22 shooting to video games, particularly...
Gorebox developer Felix Filip has declined the invitation of the Senate Committee on Women, Children, Family Relations and Gender Equality to participate in its investigation into the Tacloban school shooting incident on July 1. Because of this, Sen. Risa Hontiveros, who heads the panel, said she...
Investigators have linked the minors who were responsible in the school shooting at Tacloban to the game called GoreBox. Without a shadow of doubt, GoreBox is a violent game. It’s a physics-driven game where players can create maps full of contraptions to destroy objects and obliterate other...
One of the shooters in the Tacloban City school gun attack is an avid player of popular gaming application Gorebox, an official of the Philippine National Police (PNP) said, citing result of the initial investigation. And police investigators are now establishing a possible link between the 14-year...
