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** Warning. Personal bit **For all my loyal readers that noticed (thanks mum) I didn't post at all last week. I had a headache. A big one. Thought it might have been a brain tumor but Mrs.Lefty sympathetically reassured me that one requires a brain in order to have a brain tumor... But after intensive medical investigations using that huge repository of often accurate information Wikipedia, I have self diagnosed myself as a sufferer of Class 2 Migraines (without aura) induced by changes in barometric pressure. Naturally... anyway normal service will be resumed as soon as possible. ** End of personal bit ** Something from the weekend 18-19/10The Xbox360 is my weapon of choice and I try not to publish too much about the opposition but this story has produced too much resonance within the gaming community to ignore. Little Big Planet the PS3 “system-seller” has been recalled at the eleventh hour for featuring passages from the Quran." Being a Humanist by choice and having an inherent dislike of scripture in any form I'm not too sure what the controversy is about. If you translate this post into Greek and rearrange all the letters you'll probably be able to concoct a phrase from the Dead Sea Scrolls... but I have no intention of recalling it. After whole minutes of researching I was able to unearth the original complaint: very urgent about little big planet
And here come all the excited ambulance chasers:
And possibly simply for its novelty value we find today (20/10) that copies of the original release WITH offending lyrics are fetching high prices. A collectible item of the future?:
News: Recalled copies of LittleBigPlanet selling on eBay for up to $249 Daily Pickings 17/10At first I lost sleep over the idea that this is "the first true monthly decline the industry has experienced since March of 2006" but then I read the second article and realised where all the money was going. It's all those cheap Xbox360 packages Micro$oft is chucking out to flood the market. Yet another tragic example of why people must really learn the difference between the real world and imaginary ones... and why they probably shouldn't meet. Er, great title on this article. I should think a controller to a console would be a great help in succeeding. Cos, you know, without one just how far would you get...? Once upon a time there was a survey commissioned by Sony and conducted by Yahoo which concluded that "Videogames can contribute to a child’s education, improve hand-eye coordination and aid problem-solving skills." Er... isn't that because you need hand-eye coordination and problem solving skills to play video games? And just what is it they're being educated about? Video games? Another excellent list from Gamesradar providing me with many an excuse and argument to use on Mrs.Lefty next time she calls me a lazy git. Which should be in about.... ooo, ten minutes? And finally: talking about number five in the above article "5. We regularly mourn the passing of loved ones" Daily pickings 16/10
I think it's always good to hear about the often "background" altruistic activities of gaming organisations. By some kind of very faint osmosis effect it makes me feel better about myself. There's an awful lot of money going into virtual worlds and there's an awful lot of time by an awful lot of people being put into virtual worlds. Maybe it's saying something about how awful the real world is? "Even when the economy is taking a downturn, consumers still want to have fun." There are games conventions popping up everywhere. Did anyone go to this one and what did the booth babes look like? From a commentator to the post: "I hope it lives up to New World Computing's "Nuclear War" from 1989 in terms of "extolling the virtues of nuclear energy". I wonder what the other games were. Censorship Bar Tetris? Religious Police Persepolis 2? The Enhanced Interrogation MMO? The Mullahs, a total conversion mod for Sims? Lego Khomeini: Adventures of the Islamic Revolution?" F**CKING A!!! Which is an American expression I've picked up from somewhere and tend to use when I'm particularly excited about something. A Portal add-on is coming to Xbox Live. I loved Portal. It was different and funny and clever. And GLDOS is definitely an antagonist of the 21st century. If you haven't read Spitfire's analysis of her possibly suicidal motivations then go here: www.game-ism.com and look up Popular Posts. I believe in the cake. And finally: Micro$oft's house of the future is likened to living in the Jetson's world. But I've seen way too many sci-fi movies. Time to read Demon Seed again. Time to prepare. Daily pickings 15/10GTA at last gets a break as a game boasting "enough violence, guns and gratuitous sex to make Grand Theft Auto seem as tame as Pac-Man," is finally released. But apparently the NYPD is not amused as Saints Row 2 "encourages players to butcher cops with chain saws"... like they needed any encouragement in the first place... Oh c'mon! Pacman's been chasing those ghosts for over twenty years and you never heard them complaining. As always the boys at Gamesradar put the mmmm in mature. I suppose the idea of marketing stuff on new fangled popular sites like Youtube and Facebook is a good one both for the consumer, so they don't miss out and for the supplier, so they don't miss out on consumers. Is this really news? A politician completely reversing his opinion in order to gain the popularity of the moment. This is apparently about how Dubai is going to host some kind of game convention and there's this company that's going to develop ethnic minority heroes or something like that anyway... I'm afraid that when I got to the end and read about the paranoid poster on mccainspace.com saying, and I quote,: "a mind-games project originating in the UAE...or is it mind-control? Notice that the downloads of this project are FREE. Ask yourself why..." I thought it was so funny I forgot to take the beginning of the article seriously. And finally...I'm sure I could think of something witty and derisive to write about the kid in this next article. But I'm just not gonna. Respect, kid, respect. Lone Space Invader Reaches Planet Surface, Finds Out It Suckshttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/The-minusWorld/~3/417805507/ Mind the language... he gets a bit miffed at the end. Quick Draw MacGrawThis would explain alot... Gamers On A Hair Trigger, Claim Evil Wrong-headed Scientists [Premature Ejaculation] "The problem with play" and "No more game shame"Here come The Brainy Gamers last two posts in his mini-series about why games and why we play them. A 'Left 4 Dead' LEGO Zombie Apocalypse In PicturesAlthough not a Lego animation as I have highlighted in prevoius posts I think this still deserves a mention.
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I would so love a Left 4 Dead Lego line... Sorting perceptionshttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/brainygamer/~3/413293866/sorting-perceptions.html Yeah... er, what he said. Gears 2 Instruction Manual Surfaces OnlineReal or not and more than a few days old I'm still going to post this about the "possible" Gears of War 2 instruction manual.
It details the new weapons and the new multiplayer modes including; Wingman (confirming by the way a max of ten players as opposed to eight in Gears 1), Submission and... Horde.
I am SO fracking excited about Horde that I am officially opening recruitment for Team Lefty. Anybody that wants to build a five man team to defend against this relentless Locust assault get your applications in now!
]:8D Childish things reconsideredhttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/brainygamer/~3/412020563/childish-things.html Brainy Gamer is often a little too deep for my coffe breaks at work but I'm certainly going to keep an eye out for the next few posts in this vein on why we game and see if he can define a difference between games and toys... Love George Will's caustic quote though on new media: "...more sophisticated delivery of stupidity." Take-Two Nearing GTA IV Ad Settlement with Chicago Bus CompanyGTA IV was advertised on the side of Chicago buses and then they were taken down "following a Fox News report which sought to relate the popular crime game to a rash of local shootings." I think the important word here is "sought". I'm far too lazy to do the math but I wonder if the local shootings came before or after GTA IV had begun to be advertised and although I in no way want to belittle the seriousness of the incidents I wonder whether they would have received the same kind of coverage if GTA IV hadn't been around in the collective conciousness... |
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