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Why Robin Makes Batman Better No, Microsoft didn’t manage to have an Xbox 360 snuck into Barack Obama’s room.
The Clinton’s didn’t spend their pre-speech prep early this week playing team deathmatch Call of Duty 4.
Delegates didn’t forego Joe Biden’s rowdy all-nighter (I hear some of the Black-Eyed Peas and Snoop Dog were there) to catch some time with Gears of War 2.
Gaming amidst one of the biggest political gatherings of the year is a little more staid, make that a lot more staid.
One of the only public appearance by the monolithic video game industry at the week-long Democratic National Convention in Denver this week was by Microsoft and its Xbox 360.
Microsoft’s State Government Affairs folks set up shop in a back bleacher section of the Rocky’s Coors Field during Tuesday’s A Day at Coors Field. Their demonstration area was packed with flat screen televisions, Xbox 360s, copies of MLB 2K8 and of course one large couch.
“Where better to talk about families and games then in the living room”, Fred Humphries told me as I sat down to chat with him. Humphries, managing director of state government affairs for Microsoft’s US Legal Corporate Affairs, flew into Denver to help oversee Microsoft, and the Xbox’s, showing at the week-long convention.
Wii baseball title Mario Super Sluggers hit stores yesterday, and my home along with this pack of official Mario Super Sluggers Collectable Baseball Cards. Pretty magnificent. Hit up the jump for a close up of the back of each card.
I can’t recall the exact moment I finally decided to stop trying to make sense of everything that was going on at the Games Convention in Leipzig, but if I had to guess I would say it was somewhere between discovering the cosplayer hive and when these guys started breakdancing.
Phil Harrison didn’t just work at Sony, the dude was Sony. Cut him and he’d bleed PlayStation. So when he upped and left for Atari earlier this year, there’s no way all he was going to get was a pat on the back and a “thanks for your time”. No, he was due something nice. Nicer than a gold watch, even. Something like this snazzy PlayStation-themed plaque, which SCE commissioned for him so he could hang it on his wall at Atari and remember the good old days, when he got to talk about games people actually gave a hoot about.
[via UK:R]
