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traces of nuts
Look, I'm not normally one to get all hot and bothered by the stuff people that don't play games say about game. But this rant, by CNN's Glenn Beck? As a gamer I'm stumped. But as a gamer and a history grad, I'm...less than amused. It's like a one-two punch with ignorance-coated knuckle-dusters.
[thanks James!]
Perhaps The Stupidest Anti-GTA Vid You'll See Today
Look, I'm not normally one to get all hot and bothered by the stuff people that don't play games say about game. But this rant, by CNN's Glenn Beck? As a gamer I'm stumped. But as a gamer and a history grad, I'm...less than amused. It's like a one-two punch with ignorance-coated knuckle-dusters.
[thanks James!]
children are our future
43% Of Parents Don't Game With Their Kids
A recently published Associated Press and AOL Games survey of over 2,000 adults, some 770 of which play video games, reveals that those with kids who game don't spend a whole hell of a lot of time gaming with their offspring. According to the poll, about 43% of parents who have given birth to gamers don't spend any of their family time playing games. Those who do game with the kids tend to be younger parents, like 33 year old Marvin Paup of Arizona who plays Halo 3 with his 10-year old son to the tune of 30 hours a week. Yikes! Hope the Xbox Live headset defaults to "mute others" at the Paup house.
Unsurprisingly, those not weened on joysticks, like 55-year old mother Karen Kimball, bemoan"the violence, the obsession" their kids are subjected to while gaming. One might think that more time alloted to spending time with your kid and a wireless controller might help one relate a bit better.
Kids, it's time to add copies of Scene It? and Wario Ware Smooth Moves to the Amazon wish list. Get a wireless controller into the hands of your crusty old folks the sooner the better.
politics
Heel, Rogue Ron Paul Supporters!
A few months ago, my studio Persuasive Games made a simple newsgame for CNN, which they published as Presidential Pong. For those of you unfamiliar with the genre, newsgames are a simple type of political game akin to the editorial cartoon.
Presidential Pong wasn't the best newsgame we've ever done (that one was probably Airport Security, a game about the arbitrary nature of TSA screening). But it was effective enough. Released right around the first Presidential debate, the game was intended both to introduce the primary candidates and to satirize the very idea of debate. In Pong, players return tennis volleys. In Presidential Pong, they return campaign volleys. Politics is, as ever, optional.
Since then, we've been getting regular abusive emails and phone calls from Ron Paul supporters.
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virtual worlds
CNN Enters Second Life
Eventually there will more companies in Second Life than their are in real life. Now CNN is setting up an I-Report hub in the virtual world, in a double-effort to learn about life in a computer-created environment while discovering what constitutes news in such a foreign environment.
"The thing we most hope to gain by having a CNN presence in Second Life is to learn about virtual worlds and understand what news is most interesting and valuable to their residents," said Susan Grant, executive vice president of CNN News Services.See? Exactly what I said. The I-Report hub will allow Second Life users to submit their own news stories and includes both a news desk and an amphitheater for bigger events, such as appearances by RL CNN anchors. They're holding a training session tomorrow at 5 eastern for budding VR reporters. If you're interested, be prepared to see things you can't unsee.
CNN enters the virtual world of Second Life [CNN.com - Thanks Puddytat!]
rumor
PS3 Price Drop Imminent?
OK seriously, why does every Playstation 3 pricing announcement have to turn into an enormous clusterfuck of confusion?
Let me lay it out for you, generically speaking:
1. First come the rumors about something.
2. Then come the general denials from Sony.
3. Then come more rumors in bigger publications.
4. Then come the categorical denials from Sony.
5. Then comes the statement the contradicts the categorical denial.
6. Then comes the announcement.
Apparently we are currently at step number five with this latest PS3 price drop rumor. At least if Thomson Financial Services (a competitor of Bloomberg and Reuters) and CNN Money is to be believed we are. In the latest story about the price rumor, Thomson reports the rumor as written about by a French newspaper and then follows up with this dandy of a Sony statement:
A Sony spokesman would not confirm the figures cited by Les Echos but said an announcement was 'imminent'.
OK, so correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't that slightly contradict Sony saying they have "nothing of the sort planned"?
Sony to Cut Playstation 3 Price in Run-Up to Christmas [CNN Money]
video
Virtual Environments Via CNN
... But it will never air in the US (damn you, CNN, for gipping us on the good content - who wants to watch Larry King, anyways?). In yet another example of nice, positive press - focusing not on video games turning kids into psychotic nutjobs, but on the positive interaction possible in virtual worlds (but frequently not in the real world) - CNN International's "Future Summit" talked with two panels of researchers, developers, and other interested parties about "virtual worlds" and what people do in them. More »
check your local listings
CNN Talking to the Games Industry
Yes, talking. Not yelling, not criticizing actual invited game industry panelists to discuss how technology like virtual worlds are changing the way we are looking at communities and reshaping our lives. Trip Hawkins, (founder of EA, 3DO, and Digital Chocolate), Philip Rosedale (founder of Linden Lab), Jeff Green (Editor, Games for Windows), and Jane McGonigal (game designer and researcher) will sit down with other various experts to chew the fat on CNN's Future Summit: Virtual Worlds, an hour-long program that will air next week (June 13th) on CNN International. More »
wii
Why Not Revolution, Miyamoto?
In a recently published interview with Nintendo director Shigeru Miyamoto, the Mario creator talks about all things Shiggy. From his aversion to violent video games to establishing Nintendo as a unique company with products like the DS and Wii, you'll find all sorts of interesting Miyamoto-isms throughout the Q&A. More »
google
Google Wants In On In Game Advertising
According to website CNN Money, Google Inc. is currently in negotiations to purchase Adscape Media, a San Francisco company that provides in-game advertising to many major companies. This is just another in a long line of bids by Google to buy up companies so they can stretch their advertising presence in as many types of media as they can. If the Adscape purchase goes through, it would mean that Google would be able to deliver in game ads over the internet, directly into the games. How exactly that would work, I'm not sure, but don't be surprised if you wake up one day to find a big ole' Google Billboard staring you in the face when you load up your favorite game. More »
left behind
I love it when the mainstream media covers gaming subjects. You always get the underlying feeling that they have no earthly clue what they are talking about. Notice the awesome special effect there. The reporter is in the game! OMG! I'd add my two cents about Left Behind, but I believe Weston Glenn, Teen Gamer and new gaming icon summed it up nicely.
Clips: Left Behind on CNN
Here's a CNN story recorded this morning by resourceful Kotakuite Part Time Gamer, which covers the controversy surrounding the Left Behind video game, which involves killing in the name of god but for some reason completely skipped out on licensing any Rage Against the Machine music.I love it when the mainstream media covers gaming subjects. You always get the underlying feeling that they have no earthly clue what they are talking about. Notice the awesome special effect there. The reporter is in the game! OMG! I'd add my two cents about Left Behind, but I believe Weston Glenn, Teen Gamer and new gaming icon summed it up nicely.
wii
Video Game Bloggers Pwnd By CNN Reporter
The breaking Wii remote strap issue has made it all the way to CNN. If you tuned in on this particular day to find out about the war or any other pertinent news story, you had to wait until this amazing piece of tripe was finished. More »
cnn
Gifts For The Gaming Elite (And Highly Paid Execs)
CNN Money's Chris Morris asks himself (and answers) the question: If I were shopping for video gaming execs, what would I buy them for Christmas? More »
second life
Second Lifer A First Life Millionaire
Second Lifer Anshe Chung (aka Ailin Graef) has become the world first "virtual millionaire" according to Fortune magazine. What is a virtual millionaire? Someone whose in-game assets are worth (or convertible to) over $1 million in real-life money. Who said video gaming wouldn't pay off? I mean beside every parent in the universe. More »
escapist
Game Journalism... Wait! Don't Stop Reading!
Normally we're not the types to link to navel gazing, incestual circle jerks where game journalists talk about the state of gaming journalism. It's normally just so tired. All that self important introspection that no one but game journalists care about? It really wears you out. More »
wii
DVD-capable Wii Coming?
Remember what we said about more Wii surprises and revelations coming? The latest Edge magazine may have some of the Wii-tails we've all been waiting for. More »
sony
PSP Price Cut Looms?
CNN/Money's "Game Over' column by financial reporting stud Chris Morris leds us to believe that Sony will take a price hit on the PSP this holiday, lowering the MSRP of the handheld to $149 USD. In fact, analyst P.J. McNealy is quite sure of it. More »
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