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Modern Warfare 2 On Fox & Friends
12:00AM Brian Ashcraft | This morning, American broadcast network Fox brought its “fair and balanced” reporting to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. The headline? “A game that lets you play as a terrorist?” More »
Culture
Watch Totilo On Fox News, Ask Him Questions
3:50AM Brian Crecente | Our very own Stephen Totilo will be spending an hour today in Fox News’ Strategy room talking about the gadgets, games and gizmos of E3. More » Advertisement
Catch The Awesomeness Of TDTESS On BD, Today
If ever there was an action/sci-fi film that was made for the increasingly popular BD format, the Fox blockbuster ‘The Day The Earth Stood Still’ must certainly be it. Granted, remakes of awesome 1950s flicks, starring Keanu Reeves may not float everyone’s boat, but there’s no denying the awesomeness of seeing the film’s CG special effects and explosive scenes in high definition. More »
Fox Gets Terminators In Our iPhones
9:20AM Stuart Houghton | Noooo! Anyone who has seen Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles will tell you two things – 1) lady terminators are pretty and 2) if the bloody things can get on the internet they can hack anything and cause all kinds of hassle. Fox has only gone and introduced the glow-eyed menaces to the iPhone. Great. Now death will be both swift AND stylish. Terminator: Ambush is a mini MMO that can be played via the iPhone or a web browser. the idea is that players using the web interface hunt down and terminate those using the iPhone version. There is a GPS component to the game, so don’t play if you actually are being hunted by a killer robot – this will lead them right to you. FOX Launches ‘Terminator’-themed, location-based MMORPG [Touch Arcade] More »
Jack Thompson Is “First Amendment Attorney”
12:00AM Brian Ashcraft | Last seen on Fox News as a “School Shooting Expert”, Jack Thompson is now, according to a Fox News broadcast last Thursday, a “First Amendment Attorney.” This is not an April Fool’s Joke. Neither is Fox News. Yet both strangely seem like one. Everyday of the year. This Is Not Joke [Game Politics] More »
Juno Game Not So Real After All
5:40AM Mark Wilson | Has everyone seen Juno? It’s what I consider the Bestest Picture of the Year, therefore meaning, yes, it’s mandatory viewing lest Witz need to take you outside. But what about that very weird-sounding game based upon the movie that was floating around the internet last week? It sounded weird for a reason. It doesn’t exist. An analogy comparing small budget games to small budget films was taken out of context—the true story is really quite lame. Luckily, it means that the video game industry hasn’t figured out how to spoil the few good movies that come out of Hollywood…yet. Juno getting game treatment? [Gamespot via DigitalBattle] More »
Did BioWare Have Their Heads In The Sand Over Mass Effect Controversy?
1:20AM Luke Plunkett | That’s certainly what N’Gai Croal is suggesting over at Level Up. Having had the chance to sit down with BioWare’s Ray Muzyka at DICE last night, he asked why it had been journalists and publishers who had come to Mass Effect’s defence after it was attacked on Fox, and not the game’s creators themselves. Muzyka’s response? That they were happy to let the “community” be the first to come to their defence. And aside from a short statement issued to the New York Times, that’s exactly what they did. Let others come to their own game’s defence. Which doesn’t sit well with Croal: In order to sit at the grown-ups table, culturally speaking, developers are going to have to act like adults. And that means not letting other people do their fighting for them. Little harsh, perhaps, but also largely on the money. Like Having A Gun Pointed At Your Baby: Discussing the Fox News/Mass Effect Controversy With BioWare General Manager Ray Muzyka [Level Up] More »FOX News Mass Effect Spoof Parodies A Parody
6:20AM Mark Wilson | Can parody be parodied? That’s the question we ask ourselves after watching this spoof of Geoff Keighley’s appearance on FOX News. While the skit itself is alright, it was the reporter’s opening monologue that made the clip post-worthy. So without giving anything away, we’ll just say that, damn, we really wish we’d played the publicised version of Mass Effect. Because it sounds really freakin’ hot. Max Effect [loadingreadyrun via Maxconsole] More »
Jack Thompson Defends Mass Effect
2:03AM Brian Crecente | Believe it or not Jack Thompson and I email sorta regularly. Granted he usually emails me bizarre, over-the-top press releases (which I often don’t post) and I respond with disjointed quotes from movies, which I hope will one day remove that last wobbly hinge of his. (No luck yet). Last week Jack emailed me a press release entitled “Grand Theft Auto IV to Be Released April 29; Culture War Begins Now” and after my typical poking, I got on to the topic of the Mass Effect controversy and was shocked, literally out of my socks, to find him defending the game… sort of. Apparently, even anti-gaming crusader Jack Thompson found self-help author Cooper Lawrence (who he refers to as a man), uninformed and the entire controversy contrived. Hellooooo kettle. More »
