While Activision remains committed to complete and utter domination of home consoles and the personal computer, it seems the mega-publisher couldn’t care less about emerging platforms like Facebook or the iPhone.
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Alright. We all know the type. They’re active on the cybergamer forums, they’re constantly running LANs. They ask if you fancy a quick game of CS1.6/Halo: Reach/Call of Duty” Black Ops/Team Fortress 2 and proceed to rip the skin off your trigger finger in a ridiculously quick fashion. This is the gift guide for that guy.
It’s easy to assume that most people who connect their Xbox 360 consoles to the internet have an Xbox Live Gold subscription. But nope. Turns out a lot of you don’t.
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In addition to the statement released yesterday, the Minister for Home Affairs Brendan O’ Connor has just posted an update on the Australian Labor website restating the facts of of yesterday’s Literature Review on violence in video games, but also stating that “Classification Ministers across Australia are carefully considering the pros and cons of introducing an R18+ classification for computer games.”
