The Penny Arcade! folks decided to take a week off and put up some kiddie art from a class they were speaking at (lucky kids).
For commentary, they’re featuring various gaming associated folks.  Todays is Steve Bowler of Midway on how he got into gaming via a very circutious route.
I’ve got to give him props for […]

One thing that’s always good for users is competition, and it looks like the push media industry might be seeing a bit more of it.
I’ve kept half an eye on the growing Verizon vs. the Cable Cos story going on, but someone with far more of an interest in it (Patrick) shot over a note […]

Now, this is just a suggestion. But I think Patricia Vance, president of the ESRB needs some sort of “persuasion device” to deal with congress.  Either that or we need to replace her with someone with the IQ of a turnip that won’t actually take their job seriously, but will stoicly dissemble to the congress […]

Whichever senate sub comittee this article concerns is filled with easily led fools.  They appear to be under the same disconnect from reality that occurs in think tanks sponsored by large corporations.
Not only are they not aware in this hearing as to what they’re discussing, they blatently lie about the Rockstars GTA and it’s “hot […]

While I’ll wholeheartedly agree that there are some games which are far to violent for my viewing pleasure I won’t go so refer to them as “speech”.
They’re not.
Nor will I gladly watch Congress critters dictate morals.  I’m perfectly capable of not buying a game on my own, without any regulation, thank  you very much.
But apparently […]

The RIAA is claiming victory on it’s running war with it’s own customers.  They’ve finally vanquished the beast of possible purchasers, and with CD sales declining feel they’ve won.
I’ve got to say, I’m sure all the label artists now making less money have to feel vindicated that they’ve paid for this.  Nothing like paying someone […]

Blu-Ray. 1,500$(USD). Is it my imagination, or are the manufacturers of these devices confused on which century we’re inhabiting?
Back in 1980, high end electronics were low yield, expensive to produce, largely small run items. ICs (integrated circuits) hadn’t taken the playing field quite yet and devices required many components.
Currently you only need […]

Someone told me that the face of new media was here. Gone are the old, trite, boring days of finite production and mass consumption, the push model.
Ushering in this new era of small run media are the darlings of personal distribution, Google Media and YouTube. Of course, if Google’s new “hits” list is […]

This mornings study was to look for the recent history of comic books.
You know you read them. Be it the overly trite heroics of Superman, the angst ridden Spiderman (aka Peter Parker), some of the more anatomically incorrect women in comics (Top Cow may have pioneered the artform…), humouros yet homicidal JTHM (produce, Vasquez, produce!), […]

Crypto (a friend) showed me an excellent WoW Dragostea Din Tea (aka Numa Numa) choreography. Produced by the fine human directors over at the WoW Film Actors Guild (used to be filmactorsguild.tk) the choreographed bits they pull off in the confines of a commercial game are pretty astounding. If you’re wmv non-able (like […]