About seventy-five percent of game industry presidential campaign donations went to democrats, based on a sampling of developers and publisher donations over the past two years obtained from the Federal Election Commission.
PC World’s Darren Gladstone got an itching to make some custom characters in SCIV, and created U.S. presidential candidates John McCain (Vietnam vet headband, big arse mallet) and Barack Obama (shirtless and swingin’ nunchaku.) And of course, the video ends with their series tied at 2-2, just so no one thinks this is an endorsement of or in-kind advertisement for either — because FEC paperwork is a bitch.
I’m trying to make allegories between their fighting traits and campaign positions but to be honest, haven’t followed things that closely. I do think the choice of weapons is rather adroit. Do you want your president to be some dancing elitist who prefers foreign fightin’ styles with sticks, or a guy with good-ole cornfed brute strength enough to pound his enemies with a massive phallic object?
As one commenter on GamePolitics aptly pointed out: Thank God Hillary did not get the nomination. I’ll let you think on it for a second.
McCain vs Obama — FIGHT! [PC World, via Gamepolitics]
So, one of the things you do in Washington is have lunch with people who were once friends but now go by the title “colleagues”. And if you can discuss something that involves both of your jobs, you then walk down to the IRS and give ‘em a big ole fanger because you get to write off the lunch. Which probably knocks 20 cents off my tax bill, but what the hell.
Yesterday, the very same thing happened. I was “lunching” with a “colleague” from my AP days, she works for CNN now, and of course she mentioned the John McCain Facebook app “Pork Invaders”. In it, you manoeuvre your Campaign Yard Sign back and forth, firing off vetoes at the flying pigs who spend taxpayers’ money and hurl heathen inverted crosses at you (it’s the subtle imagery that appeals to the conservative Christian base). Complete a level and get a fun fact about the candidate. And a perpetual come-on to sign up for another Facebook app. God, I love it when with-it parents try to get hip with the kids. How is this not a top 20 app?!
Video game soundtracks being used in a political campaign? GamePolitics has shrewdly noticed that a recent John McCain ad is layered with the theme from EA’s Medal of Honour: European Assault.
Very inspiring, one supposes? The plot thickens, though, when you learn that the music’s composer, Christopher Lennertz, is one hundred percent Team Obama.
Lennertz told GamePolitics that there was just a mix-up over rights, and nothing illegal took place. But how does he feel about having his creation used to support a candidate he opposes? Hit the jump for his comment:
