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    Image of BubbleF**kingBuddy BubbleF**kingBuddy
    06/27/09

    In reply to "News Gaming:" Lots of Buzz but No Breakout
    What about games like Manichi Issho, which are, literally, the news.
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    Image of Bellamy Bellamy
    06/27/09

    @BubbleF**kingBuddy:


    Mainichi Isso isn't news, it's more like that section in the Saturday paper that has weird news stories or "it's a saturday so we needed filler" articles.


    Only Mainichi Isso has a new article every day.

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    Image of SsLordMagus SsLordMagus
    06/27/09

    In reply to "News Gaming:" Lots of Buzz but No Breakout
    I'm surprised to see the words Christian and Science so close togheter but anyway..

    Everytime i see a World map like this i always think of DEFCON, i liked that game. :D

    As for Game as news, meh. i think it's better on dedicated channel. Not everyone is into games.
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    Image of Gantz: Your Trusted Friend in Science. Gantz: Your Trusted Friend in Science.
    06/27/09

    @SsLordMagus: Yep

    "Christian Science" is an oxymoron like

    "Pretty Ugly"

    or

    "Deafening silence"
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    Image of Rebel Good Rebel Good
    06/27/09

    @Gantz: Your Trusted Friend in Science.:

    or


    "Justice Scalia"

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    Image of jacobgermain jacobgermain
    06/27/09

    In reply to "News Gaming:" Lots of Buzz but No Breakout
    The... Christian science monitor?


    That seems... strange, to say the least. Shouldn't we be praying swine flu away?

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    Image of tsathoggua tsathoggua
    06/27/09

    @jacobgermain: The Monitor generally avoids any sort of religious slant, save for the last few pages -- these pages, I do not read. It's a very good newspaper, actually.
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    Image of MrBionic MrBionic
    06/27/09

    In reply to "News Gaming:" Lots of Buzz but No Breakout
    'but no Breakout'


    Hahahahah.


    I used to love Breakout.

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    Image of Llanwar Llanwar
    06/27/09

    @MrBionic: There is, in fact, a news breakout [www.newsbreakergame.com]
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    Image of Gantz: Your Trusted Friend in Science. Gantz: Your Trusted Friend in Science.
    06/27/09

    @Llanwar: Ya but its pretty fucked up to play a light-hearted game like that only to see

    "20 killed in motorcycle bombing"
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    Image of mrsmiter mrsmiter
    06/27/09

    @MrBionic: use to love breakout? what happend between you and breakout?
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    Image of MrBionic MrBionic
    06/27/09

    @mrsmiter: I ran off with Arkanoid.
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    Image of raiseplease raiseplease
    11/16/08

    In reply to Four Future Trends of Entertainment
    There's plenty of fan fiction, but people don't pay money for it, and you don't see it sell in borders or at amazon. User created content for the most part sucks, and for every counterstrike there are a ton of cheesy, buggy mods that people play once and forget about.


    I'll keep buying stuff made by professionals, thanks.

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    Image of Ben Nadler Ben Nadler
    11/16/08

    @raiseplease: Well, that's usually why those cheesy, buggy mods die off quickly and the ones like Counterstrike persist.


    Usually the shitty mods fail to ever be released, and the really good ones make it out the door. At least, that is what I have noticed.


    I don't think the article is talking about gamers selling games. I think she is talking about companies taking an approach similar to MM with LBP. Make a game, but at the same time provide all the tools so that others can make their own game out of it as well, and then share that with others. So you'll still be paying for professional content, but at the same time, you're also getting free content from gamers that will increase the playability of a title.

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    Image of NeoAkira NeoAkira
    11/16/08

    In reply to Four Future Trends of Entertainment
    The tools are already starting to be implemented into large scale games (LBP and GHWT) the only problem is the moderation these games receive kills these features.


    The less moderation the closer we'll be to what the article is eluding to. Unfortunately I don't think it'll be too easy to dodge the whole moderation issue.

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    Image of Ben Nadler Ben Nadler
    11/16/08

    In reply to Four Future Trends of Entertainment
    Good article!


    I think that, considering the moderation of LBP that has been thoroughly discussed on this site already, especially since Azure Palace (RIP) has been taken down, we're not going to see consumers become users until moderation is basically non-existent. Sure, it needs to exist, but not in the form that it currently occupies.

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