The first red-band trailer for this year’s Mortal Kombat movie did at least confirm that blood would flow, evidenced by one noticeable scene where Sub-Zero fashions a makeshift dagger out of Scorpion’s own internal liquids and proceeds to inject straight back into him, but that’s just the mere tip of this bloodberg.

The imagery of shooting someone in the face with an assault rifle is totally okay as long as there’s no blood, right?

Detailed in Operation: Let’s Get Some O’ That Sweet Sweet Chinese Cash, Ubisoft explained earlier this month how Rainbow Six Siege would be toning down its environments by removing any reference that contained blood, sex or gambling within it, lest the Chinese censors cross their arms and refuse to classify the game for release within the borders of that nation. That mission has been aborted, I repeat abort the mission.

Vampyr is trying its best to make its killing feel like a moral decision. But one side definitely looks like a whole lot more fun.

In Vampyr, you'll need to feed if you want to get ahead in your new undead life as only the freshest of blood will keep you alive for the challenges ahead. Human or monster? The choice is yours.

Even in an age of special effects that are this close to hopping over the uncanny valley, practical effects still managed to trump whatever a computer can generate. It’s not hard to see why: It’s cheaper, far more ingenious and while it still does look fake, it looks less fake than anything you’d see rendered out of a special effects studio. That's the route that team for Alien: Covenant when it came time to make the blood flow.

The designer of DOOM himself, John Romero, has chipped in some thoughts regarding the issue of video game violence.

DOOM wants to be the sort of classic reimagining fans want, and its launch trailer certainly makes a good case for it.