People who call me an elitist are quite mistaken: I’m actually a misanthrope. It’s not that don’t associate with certain people, I don’t associate with most people. Present company excluded of course. Or included. However you want to read it. John Walker at Rock, Paper, Shotgun feels somewhat the same way, and that’s why he’s fired up about The Old Republic. And he has a novel argument for why it’ll save MMO gaming, for antisocial types like myself.
A gold farming/money laundering ring in South Korea has been accused of moving somewhere in the neighbourhood of $61 million from Korea to China (with the help of real money transactions). According to PlayNoEvil, they made false purchases to a Hong Kong paper company to move the money, which is what eventually led to their arrest. In addition to the ring leaders, an additional 11 people were arrested:
Alright, Activision is officially not fucking around. That’s four A-list sports endorsers you see, in their underwear/shorts (including Tony Hawk in a helmet, about to ride the short school bus), gyrating to Bob Seger’s “Old Time Rock n’ Roll” in the manner of Risky Business.
An article in Science magazine discussing why Spore flunks various kinds of science after close scrutiny by a variety of scientists reminds me of history buffs that get hysterical when a movie is historically inaccurate. While a couple of them had a few nice things to say, Spore in general got poor marks in organismic and evolutionary biology, squeaked by with barely sufficient grades in cultural anthropology, physics, and astrobiology, and was reasonably highly rated in sociology and galaxy structuring. But they’re not just trying to grouse, really:
The paparazzo who shot that says it’s Ed Fleming, the executive director of VGXPO, better known to some as the guy who got ‘toe up — with Incubus! — at last year’s PAX, and then got throwed out by management. Tipster Relentless Fapping says this time, Ed descended on the Too Many Games convention, in Reading Pa., where he somehow managed to rip the bumper off his car.
Revealed on Gametrailers TV overnight — Call of Duty: World at War will feature a “zombie mode” that’s unlocked once you complete the game. It’s a four-player co-op mode pitting you against endless waves of Nazi undead. Man, that sounds cool just saying it. The mode features its own economy in which things like buying weapons as well as making barricades and moving obstacles cost money. Yes, flamethrowers are involved.
Oh God, not this shit again. In a letter to the editor published today in The Washington Post, Joseph Anzalone of Washington says the ads for Fallout 3 displayed in D.C.’s Metro system are so disturbing they should be taken down.
