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Sunday Comics: Dead Island This is hardly a shock – if Gatorade, Nike and Gillette aren’t running from Tiger Woods, in light of his philandering, why would EA Sports? The publisher released a statement standing by the namesake of its golf franchise.
Hero On The Hudson, a gameplay-light web game about Captain “Sully” Sullenberger’s successful landing of an Airbus A320 on the Hudson River, is just one popular game based on that stuff most commercial video games don’t deal with: current events.
Today Barack Obama will be sworn in as the 44th president of the United States. It certainly didn’t escape Stephen Totilo’s notice who’s created quite an ode to the event.
L.B. Jeffries has a nice piece up arguing for more relevant and provocative settings in games in order to raise awareness and perhaps do something a little greater for disastrous (real world) situations. He points out that violence isn’t incompatible with this, thus many classic genres would probably be quite at home dealing with nasty current day situations (as he points out, film has already done this — though not always through violent means — though Jeffries uses Rambo 4 as a cinematic touchstone). Of course, this comes with some problems:
