I’m screwed. We’re all screwed. We’re coming back as dung beetles and fruit flies and those parasites that swim up your urine when you pee in the Amazon. Why? The Karma Police.
Follow that title with a squeaked Pika! and the arrival of the Dark Lord in a fighting arena, and you’ve got yourself a Japanese-spawned megafranchise that just happens to be a tool of the Antichrist. Sure, it’s edited for effect, but even if it weren’t it’d be worth a good laugh.
GamePolitics reports that a Danish anti-domestic-violence Flash game allows users to beat a woman, I guess as a way to teach dudes why it’s wrong to do so. In fact, if you have a webcam, your swings and backhands will be interpreted by the model as real strikes! Is it just me, or is this plain wrong? Look, I applaud the concept of games that deal with mature, heartrending themes like violence. But when the …
GamePolitics.com reports that Dennis McCauley, longtime overlord of that site and tireless fighter for free speech protection for the games industry, is stepping down as of today to pursue another opportunity. McCauley was also a freelance journalist for several more traditional outlets, but has indicated that he will be leaving the profession of journalism entirely. GamePolitics is owned by the ECA and as such won’t be shuttered; we’re expecting the announcement of a new editor …
Those with Showtime can check out tonight’s episode of Penn & Teller: Bullshit! at 10:00pm Eastern/Pacific. In this one, the duo of corpulent and silent will go out of their way to ridicule anti-game activists (including the disbarred but not forgotten Jack Thompson) convinced that videogames cause violence. The clip above was snagged from GamePolitics, once (rightly) described as “one of the few sites you must visit every day if you consider yourself serious about …
In more amusing than average news, recently disabarred attorney Jack Thompson has shared his view that God has caused Take-Two Interactive’s stock to plummet to all time lows in the wake of EA’s abandonment of acquisition talks. Take-Two, as you know, published Grand Theft Auto – among other games, though Thompson neither knows nor cares about that, he’s very single-minded – and therefore have earned the ire of the almighty. The full email exchange with …