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Games, Guns, and Movies
Tom Endo has an interesting musing up over at the Escapist on the subject of guns, games, and game design — the issue at stake is what guns really mean in video games (his answer is 'not much, especially not compared to movies'). Dirty Harry may be a love letter to the .44 Magnum, but it's a more nuanced picture than we get in, say, Grand Theft Auto. Endo says we are not producing 'images of consequence,' and an overemphasis on pure mechanics has meant a stunted approach to violence: More » -
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Game Guns Are Fun Guns, Not Real Guns
You use a lot of real guns in games today. Heck, I spent nearly all weekend playing Call of Duty 4, and am now convinced I can work the assault rifle arsenals of both the American and Russian armed forces. I really can't though, and Popular Mechanics are here to remind me that despite looking and sounding real, most in-game guns don't behave like they're real. Take Rainbow Six Vegas 2, for example. Developer Philippe Theiren:"I take these weapons, and look at what defines them, or what people think defines them. For an Uzi, people think it fires lots of bullets, and it's really inaccurate." That, he knows, has nothing to do with reality—if anything, Uzis are considered some of the most reliable and accurate submachine guns around. But the 80s (and Miami Vice in particular) offered us the Uzi as a low-life villain's weapon, spit-fire and out-of-control. "So I make it fire faster than it should. It's about taking the personality of a weapon, and making it shine in the game,"
Slightly disappointing, if only from a "what if Red Dawn happened to me" point of view, but interesting nonetheless.
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Child Demands Pokemon At Gunpoint
Okay, I know that Pokemans are the source of everything good in the world, but this is going a bit too far. A 10-year-old boy in Redwood City, California wanted a fellow student's Pokemon cards so badly that he brought an Airsoft gun to Roosevelt Elementary School, held it to the 6-year-old's forehead and demanded he hand them over. What the hell was going through this stupid child's head? You don't bring a gun - fake or otherwise - into a school because you want to steal Pokemon cards. YuGiOh cards sure, but not Pokemon cards. It's 2008 already, get with the program. The underage gunman has been suspended from school pending possible expulsion, and I am betting whoever it was at his house that owns an Airsoft gun wasn't the type of person to let such behavior go without a good whack on the ass with a belt. Yes yes, disciplining your children is wrong, what was I thinking?
Armed Boy Takes Classmate's Pokemon Cards [CBS13.com via DS Fanboy]
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Man Shoots Son Over Xbox 360 Argument
As tragic as this sounds, the real story has got to be one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard. A young man (17) in Pennsylvania wanted his father to look at his Xbox 360 for some unknown reason and the father refused. An argument ensued resulting in the kid handing a rifle to his father and telling him to just go ahead and shoot him. So the father did. Now the kid is sedated in the hospital with a bullet lodged in his skull and the father is in jail. When asked about the situation, the boy's mother (and the man's ex-wife) said:
''One's in jail, one's in the hospital,'' she said. ''I won't know exactly what happened until I talk to [my son]. He's incoherent yet; they have him heavily sedated. (My ex-husband) did the shooting but it was an accidental thing that took place"
Clearly the Xbox 360 was really just a catalyst in what appears to be a long standing major family dysfunction. Sad, sure. Weird, definitely. But seriously, you couldn't make this stuff up.
When boy said 'shoot me,' dad did, police say [The Morning call]
3:00 PM on Sun Jan 6 2008
By fdemarco
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Clip: Haloid - Fan Service Evolved
Okay, all you folks can shut up now, we're posting the Halo and Metroid fan movie, Haloid. More » -
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Nintendo Pre-1980: The Lame Toy Years
I really sympathize with those kids who had to make do with the lame Nintendo. The light gun shootin', hanafuda card playin' era that didn't so effectively shut off the brain like a rousing session of Donkey Kong Jungle Beat can. More » -
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Dad Tries To Kill Computer Screen
Over in Florida, a father fired shot at his son's computer, missing the monitor, nearly killing his son and hitting the wall. Forty-four-year-old Joseph Langenderfer said he and his 22-year-old son were arguing. Instead of doing the laundry, his son was spending all his free time playing computer games. Officers arrested the father Monday afternoon. According to Tampa Bay's 10 News, "Langenderfer is in the Pinellas County jail charged with one count of attempted murder, (accused of trying to kill his son, not the computer.)" Zing! More »8:31 PM on Tue Apr 25 2006
By Brian Ashcraft
173 views, 6 commentsLatest by Ryan: See, mentally unstable people come in all shapes and sizes, and not all of them play video games. What more »
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