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Adam Sessler Swipes At L4D Petitioners
Recently, Hellforge posted an interview with Adam Sessler taking swipes at Left 4 Dead petitioners.
Adam said, "It's kind of juvenile, the internet when it comes to games can be such a nation of whiners, when there's far better things to be doing."
While some do agree with what Adam had to say, some of the petitioners took his comments to heart.
Where I do understand where Adam comes from with respect to a nation of whiners, a lot of people miss that maybe gamers have been spoiled with extra game content which is pretty much a standard these days. From horse armour to massive level add-ons, there is normally something to be expected from games.
This isn't really a community blabbering on how bad the game is, rather a community taking a sense of ownership of something for which they paid and showed support.
Left 4 Dead, however, got little of that during its run. Furthermore, I believe developers and designers should be honoured that fans have this much care and loyalty toward a product. Maybe it isn't the fans that are a nation of whiners, Adam. Maybe it's the industry as a whole who have turned to little babies, giving the fans cookie-cut game after cookie-cut game time and time again and believing that the consumer should have no voice.
We fans spend the our hard earned money, no matter if a title is ten dollars or 70 dollars. It gives us a right to express our dislikes and interests.
Man in the Mirror....
As I heard the news driving home last night, I couldn't believe what was coming from my radio.
I come from the generation where Michael was larger than life. Moonwalker, Thriller, Bad and so forth.
I remember going to school with the red Michael Jackson jacket (yes I had one, yes I wore it, give me a break I was small..lol).
But aside from my childhood memories, the real shame is what the world lost.
His talent and vision for music is something I highly doubt will never be done again in my life time. Like many greats that have passed before him, Elvis, James Brown, Kurt Cobain, Layne Staley, and sadly many others who have left us far ahead of their time.
Thank you for all my great childhood memories...
Michael....you have left the world, but your legacy will live forever......
The Story of Being Homeless in The Sims 3
Welcome to the tale of Alice and Kev.
They have an interesting experiment they are currently conducting: Playing a Sims 3 homeless family.
Alice and Kev moved to a place made to look like an abandoned park, removed all of their remaining money and then attempted to help them survive without taking any job promotions or easy cash routes.
They attempt to tell their experiences with the minimum of embellishment. Everything described is something that happened in the game. What's more, a surprising amount of the interesting things in this story were generated by just letting go and watching the Sims' free will and personality traits take over...
This is a very cool read and I highly recommend taking the time to read it
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The Face of a Coward
See that guy? That is Daniel Petric, the teenager who shot and killed his mother (Susan Petric, 43) and injured his father after being cut off from Halo 3 back in 2007.
He was sentenced today, MSNBC reports. Judge James Burge sentenced the boy to 23 years to cries of mercy from the boy's surviving father, who stated that Daniel "still does not understand why he did something so terrible."
It's said that Petric played Halo 3 up to 18 hours a day. During the trial, Petric's sister testified that Daniel had become addicted to video games when he became house-bound with a staph infection after a snowboarding injury.
In September 2007, Daniel, then 16, had sneaked out of his bedroom window to purchase the game from a store, against his father's orders. When he returned home, his parents caught him with the game and took it from him. His father, Mark, a minister at New Life Assembly of God in Wellington, put the game in a lock box in a closet where he also kept a 9mm handgun, according to prosecutors.
The prosecution pushed for the maximum sentence of life without parole. The defense's argument was that Daniel was so young and so addicted to the game that he could not be held accountable. Daniel was 16 years old at the time when the murder was commented.
He'll be elegible for parole in 2031.
Rumor: Xbox Natal is Actually Microsoft's Next Console
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On this week's Listen Up podcast we discussed Natal, and David Ellis and I talked about what we've been hearing regarding the new technology -- and how it's actually the cornerstone of Microsoft's next evolution of the Xbox. Microsoft will not only release Natal as an add-on for the Xbox 360, it will come standard with the next Xbox console.
Yes, there will be a new Xbox console next fall.
However, the new console won't just be an Xbox 360 with a camera, though -- we've heard it will be considered a new platform and carry a new name (Xbox Natal?). It's not clear what sort of upgrades we might see, but some have suggested it will be an slight upgrade of the current Xbox 360 technology. Current Xbox 360 games would be playable on it, but future games would be able to take advantage of the added muscle. Similar to what we see in the PC space, games played on the more advanced Xbox would look or perform better, but publishers will still be able to support owners of both systems. Some developers have complained that they've already maxed out the Xbox 360; perhaps this will give them room to expand.
