President Obama made a comment a few days ago using the Xbox as the whipping boy for problems with video games today. This comment has Microsoft riled-up resulting in a public response to President Obama’s comment. Interestingly enough, Microsoft claims that the Xbox 360 is the only console to have parental controls.
An interesting study reveals the popularity of the announcements at Microsoft’s press conference at E3 2009. The study was conducted via one of the biggest hardcore gaming forums around. It really is interesting to see the discrepancy between the hype created by the media versus the reaction of a sample pool of actual consumers.
It feels as though we, as gamers, have to spend an inordinate amount of time defending our hobby. If it isn’t people such as Jack Thompson and Anne Diamond claiming that violent video games are the reason behind all crime, it’s the British government claiming that “Gaming kills!” OK, so I’m paraphrasing but that’s what it amounts to.
There I was thinking that politicians had finally got the message that video games aren’t all bad. But it seems this is far from the truth. Barack Obama may be taking his Nintendo Wii to the White House with him but that hasn’t changed the general feeling amongst our law-makers that games are evil things which need moderating.
2008 has been a big year for gaming and consequently a big year here on Gamer Blorge. As we approach the end of this year and the start of 2009, let’s take a look back at the stories, opinions, and debates that dominated 2008.
2008 has been a big year for gaming and consequently a big year here on Gamer Blorge. As we approach the end of this year and the start of 2009, let’s take a look back at the stories, opinions, and debates that dominated 2008.
We always knew Playstation Home was going to have problems when the great unwashed rolled in, so it’s not surprising to find that just a week after launch we have a new update. But while this should start to fix the connection issues being experienced, it won’t do anything to actually make Home more entertaining.
With the latest firmware update I noticed something new while surfing various Web sites. Hulu Fancast has been incompatible with the PS3 browser for sometime. However, after the latest update, I noticed that Hulu seems to be working via the PS3 browser in 480p resolution.
The past few years have seen gaming and music coming closer together and being associated with each other more and more. Be it the success of games such as Guitar Hero and Rock Band, or the eponymous soundtracks attached to most big games, gaming and music now seem to go hand in hand. But that association doesn’t please everyone, and the NME has decided to launch an attack.
There is a rumor doing the rounds on the Web indicating that Blockbuster may be making its service available on the PS3 in the same way Microsoft partnered up with Netflix on the Xbox 360. If Sony does indeed partner up with Blockbuster, the service may give Netflix on the Xbox 360 a run for its money.
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