Do a Photoshop competition I said. It’ll be easier to judge I said. Less People will enter I said. It’ll take me less time I said. Wrong.
I had so many entries into this competition – quality entries – that it took me over an hour just to pick a winner. Even if you didn’t enter this comp, even if have no interest in The Witcher 2, you have to check out some of the hilarious entries to this comp.
This is a first. The New York Times has cleverly made a game out of solving the US financial crisis – it’s simultaneously the most important and the most boring game we’ve ever played. And we played through the first 20 hours of Final Fantasy XIII.
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Some wanted me to post about President Obama dinging games in a commencement address yesterday. I’d rather send a more uplifting message, where a console is judged not by the content of its games, but the colour of its skin.
The Obama administration has sounded out Microsoft’s main man, COO Steve Ballmer, on the possibility of the company producing a video game which would task players with balancing the US budget.