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POPSThe ten most influential video games ever Although the very first computer games were created in the early 1950s, the video game explosion really began a little over 30 years ago when mysterious bleeping cabinets with the legend ‘Space Invaders’ painted on them began appearing in the nation’s pubs. Since those crude beginnings the game industry has grown into a business to rival Hollywood, and, of course, has its own awards ceremony, the Golden Joysticks, to celebrate excellence in the field.
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POPS'Grand Theft Auto' makers blamed for triple killing Give me a #%&ing break! Stop blaming video games because you neglect your kids!!!!! Video games don't breed homicidal maniacs, bad parent, bad schooling, bad society does! (With a healthy (or unhealthy) smattering of mental disorder...) These pricks are likely just wanting to blame someone for their own miserable failures, and are seeing big price tags at rockstar & co. It's pathetic.
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POPSRockstar paid $100,000 for the voice of Niko Bellic "Had this been a television program, a film, an album, a radio show or virtually any other sort of traditional recorded performance, Mr. Hollick and the other actors in the game would have made millions by now," writes Schiesel -- and important sentence cut out by Clipmarks. Essentially the theory here is that videogame companies need to offer royalties to all the voice actors in the game. The problem, however, is figuring out where to draw the line once you start paying royalties. Is a voice actor more important than an animator? This is one of the concerns facing EA in the possible acquisition of Take-Two: The Houser brothers receive generous royalties from Take-Two that, if acquired, might cause insurrection within Electronic Arts' other studios.
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POPSThe Political Game: Who will save gamers?
I'm so sick and $%&@* tired of people blaming violence in the youth culture on video games. How friggin ignorant do you have t be to believe that a kid who plays "grand Theft Auto" will turn into a homicidal maniac? Kids have been killing each other far longer than video games have been in the main stream (long before they were even in existence). It's sad that a comedy-satire show has to show us how absurd many of these legal actions are. I've played video games all my life. I had a VERY, VERY #*%&'ed up childhood. Dealt with physical, sexual, and emotional abuse, was bullied in school (until I reached about grade 10), and though the though of teaching a bully a good object lesson crossed my mind, I like the VAST majority of my fellows believed it would solve nothing. "Cold Case" the other night did a great job of showing how people blame violent video games. "you played maniac massacre, you must have loved the thought of killing people!".. oh blow it out your igno
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POPSJack Thompson Takes on Mortal Kombat Jack Thompson is trying to stop the sale of Mortal Kombat: Armageddon because some user created a depiction of him in the game and posted it online. This guy is the definition of nuisance suit.
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POPSWhere is my Google PC? Google vs. Windows Live. I think both are heading the same direction. The difference will be Windows Live with integrate with Vista. But for home/small business Google could be very attractive.
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POPSBrits' innovative Christmas compassion for the elderly continued from above.... The Health Minister said they were listening carefully to all the objections to the pilot hibernation scheme, and that all these issues would be discussed as a matter of urgency by a Parliamentary enquiry which the government had entrusted to the House of Lords. However work on the Lords’ investigation appears to have been postponed until mid-May.
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POPSGore Galore but a Violent Game Can’t Hold a Gutbucket to the Movies The problem is that in addition to just hitting a bad guy a couple of times with a bat, there are other options, like slitting his throat, sticking a scythe in his nose and yanking his head back. Rather than stab him with a shard of glass, you can stab him, wrap a cord around his neck, stuff his head in a toilet and smash him on the back of the head. Pretty sick game. And I agree that it should get an AO rating.. but then again... If it is rated "M" for mature, shouldn't that mean that it is no suitable for kids? I mean why do parents buy these games that are CLEARLY rated "M" on the box (BIG LETTERS)? I mean do they think the titles of the games ("Grand Theft Auto", "Manhunt", "hitman: Bloodmoney") are just jokes? Come the fuck on now...
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