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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... Fringe: The Hardcore–Casual Debate Comes to PrimetimeI didn't watch Lost at first. I got turned off by all the hype. But then I saw about nine episodes back to back one evening that had been saved on the dvd player cos I had nothing better to do. Since then I'm a fan of most things JJ Abram's. The series "Fringe" had its debut last night on Swedish tv. From gameculture.com comes a nice little essay on the similarities of television series and videogames with the emphasis on the idea that we're not just watching but even playing too... "Can" it help cognitive function so you can win more?Do you see what I did there? Bottled Food Becomes Official Grub of World Cyber Games USA [Culture] Action Pizza? Space InvadersUK's First National Video Game Archive Launching At GameCity [Video Game History] I've got a shelf at home filled with "trophies". Mrs Lefty has been gracious enough to allow me a little space for my gaming related collectibles. I've got some Star Wars Lego, a prophet of truth, a spartan helmet and other bits and pieces. When I see things like a replica Lancer, a Wii lightsaber controller or a Halo energy sword I definitely want it... but then what's the point? Isn't old stuff just invading our space and stopping us from creating new things? Got my hopes up...Gamecock CEO Explains How Publisher Will Improve On ‘Rough’ First Year OK, I'll come right out and admit it. The only reason I'm posting this article is because of the company's name. I thought it was maybe a new Wii peripheral. And then there was this: |
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