via ShackNews
After many months of lengthy appeals with the Video Appeals Committee, Manhunt 2 is going to finally get a UK release. The British Board of Film Classification has confirmed this by issuing the game an “18+” rating, meaning only those 18 years and up can purchase and should play this game.
Last year’s Rockstar [...]
March 16, 2008
Categories: Politics, Video Games . Tags: bbfc, controvercy, manhunt 2, ps2, rockstar games, wii . Author: Christopher Cossey . Comments: Leave a Comment
via Game|Life
In a move that was to apparently aid in the “restructuring of the company and reduce its debt”, the parent company of the 1up Network and it’s printed publications, Electronic Gaming Monthly and Games For Windows Magazine, Ziff Davis Media Inc. filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy in New York this last Wednesday. This [...]
March 8, 2008
Categories: Politics, The Internet . Tags: 1up, bankruptcy, chapter 11, egm, gfw, new york, ziff davis . Author: Christopher Cossey . Comments: Leave a Comment
via 1up
Apparently the game series that so famously bites off of the film industry almost got made in to a motion picture its self. As it turns out a film studio was ready to make a film adaptation of the notorious game series with the equally notorious Marshal Mathers (aka Eminem) in the [...]
February 8, 2008
Categories: Movies, Politics, Video Games . Tags: dead project, eminem, GTA, marshal mathers, movie, rockstar games, take 2, variety . Author: Christopher Cossey . Comments: Leave a Comment
via The New York Times
The epic battle between Microsoft and Google took an interesting turn last Friday when the big M put in a $44.6 billion bid to purchase the currently hurting Yahoo! (The exclamation point is part of the company name and not for dramatic effect btw.)
This would have a pretty big, and rather [...]
February 4, 2008
Categories: Politics, The Internet . Tags: corperate buyout, google, microsoft, search engine wars, takeover, yahoo . Author: Christopher Cossey . Comments: Leave a Comment
“I recognize that I misspoke. I really regret saying that, and now that I’ve seen the game and seen the sex scenes it’s kind of a joke.
Before the show I had asked somebody about what they had heard, and they had said it’s like pornography. But it’s not like pornography. I’ve seen episodes of ‘Lost’ that are more sexually explicit.” – Cooper Lawrence
January 30, 2008
Categories: Politics, Video Games . Tags: bioware, cooper lawrence, ea, fox news, game politics, mass effect, retraction, Video Games . Author: Christopher Cossey . Comments: 1 Comment
“Fair and Balanced” my ass!
Seriously, this makes me sick. What ever happened to journalistic integrity? They seriously think that they don’t need to do any actual research I guess. Going on the website and “clicking on a lot of trailers” a few hours before broadcast is not [...]
January 29, 2008
Categories: Politics, Video Games . Tags: 360, anti, bioware, cooper lawrence, faux news, fox news, geoff keighley, graphic content, mass effect, microsoft, missappropriation, nudity, propaganda, sex, video game, xbox . Author: Christopher Cossey . Comments: 3 Comments
It seems as if Anonymous has decided to bring the LULz on the Mighty Church of Scientology FOR GREAT JUSTICE!!
They’ve already leaked the full 40 minute video of Tom Cruise’s awarding of the “IAS Freedom Medal of Valor” on to the tubes, along with a slew of [...]
January 28, 2008
Categories: General Awesomeness, Politics . Tags: 4chan, anonymous, cult, epic, evil organization, internet hate machine, legion, lulz, scientology, tom cruise, war . Author: Christopher Cossey . Comments: Leave a Comment