the saga continues

Just read this
Why do I get the feeling this is not the end for some reason!

how badly do we need it?

In the last 15 minutes I spent on the Internet I ran through a gamut of blogs and articles read about sex in games (or games about sex) , looks like after the mod Hot Coffee and games like Playboy: the Mansion this area has definitely piqued the interest of the industry. I was there at the recently concluded Futureplay conference (OK its two weeks old!) where Ernest Adams in his keynote about Emerging issues in game design spent some good slides on it analyzing the problem and the recent buzz around it. Then ofcourse there was Brenda Brathwaite who was one of the members on the panel discussion about Sex and Gender in games talking about the growing need for a market that is untapped especially for women.

Now there is an interesting challenge about to take place in the Montreal Game Summit, but I forget to mention what led to this whole post, this article in Wired talks about the whole issues and has comments from Brenda again. The funny thing is I never quite figured out what an MMPORG is? This article has several references to it.

Blogs and Articles referred

Reality Panic
Wired
Montreal Game Summit

what combat???

Holy crap I hope the kids aren't watching!!! Take a look at the new Mortal Kombat ad

point taken

I was just going through my usual list of blogs and found this article on VGM thanks Kyle for putting that point up I was backed up on my entire blogroll thanks to the FuturePlay Conference

now thats how you dont do things

I came across this old article by going through various links on the net and frankly I dont even remember how I reached this place but this quote just had me in splits and wanted to post it

Ten years ago, a group of cruel scientists kidnapped a retarded kid, blindfolded him, filled his helmet with bees, and demanded that he draw cartoons. Those cartoons were later used as The Legend of Zelda: Wand of Gamelon cutscenes

Just has to be the most sarcastic comment I have come across about a game.