In July 2011, after a somewhat clueless Al Gore keynoted the Games for Change conference in New York, Kotaku wrote that the former vice president should try playing a video game. In March 2013, Gore announced that he had done one better and created a video game instead. And guess what it's about?
After the Supreme Court announced its decision regarding a California law that would have imposed state limitations on children's access to certain video games, a deluge of reactions flooded the Internet. A Google News search shows the variety of opinions, which range from celebration of video games' affirmed first…
I have not confirmed this, but I believe that you would not be allowed to keynote a climate change conference if you hadn't sweated in the past 25 years.
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Former Vice-President, current Current TV mogul Al Gore addressed the Games for Change summit yesterday. Read Kotaku's liveblog here.
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Former vice president Al Gore addresses the Games for Change summit today, kicking off three days of discussion about making games for social impact.
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From the folks that brought the Wii molester "monk" and the Tiger Woods brouhaha to life with the magic of computer animation comes this: an Al Gore avatar trying to get some lady to grab his junk. Technology!
