Recent content by TurtleBay

Actually, part of the discussion was that there would be no ratings board. A jury would have to decide what is violent just as juries currently decide what is obscene and pornographic.

I would start by looking at the list of PS2 greatest hits and PS2 best selling videogames and the IGN top 25 for PS2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_PlayStation_2_video_games http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sony_Greatest_Hits_games...

The best writing is often the briefest. A lot of what you wrote is just hot air - remove the platitudes and use more examples. The platitudes include the "Unfortunately, America... instead of taking responsibility for her and her people's action" section and the appeal to fascism. Other parts...

One of the difficulties of videogame novels is the "characters can't die" problem (basically the Seinfeld "no hugging, no learning mantra where the characters need to end where they began). If you use characters from the games, the novelist runs into trouble as the characters are on a strict...

The laws have very specific context in regards to meaning. The law is that if you indicate "imminent lawless action" then it isn't protected speech. You need to indicate that you plan to kill the PM of Australia and have it be a credible threat (not sarcasm or kidding around). The supreme...

Wow, nobody in here knows anything about the first amendment. The California law will be struck down, Every few years a law like this comes up and always gets struck down. The politicians win brownie points with certain groups for getting this bill through even though it is unconstitutional...

It came close to vanishing when games went from cassette tape to cartridges in the early 1980s. I bet that the next phase of piracy almost vanishing will be either the dropping of PC titles by major publishers or the development of really good "phone home" online based DRM.

Umm, assuming it is on VEVO the artists have licensed it and have a cut... not piracy.

But that is the beauty of it. Being a non-customer is capitalism at work! Game companies set prices, choose what titles to invest in and devote development dollars into things that they think will turn potential customers into buyers. Pirating usually moves potential customers into the...

It is interesting how many pirates came in here to say exactly the justifications that were blown to bits in the article. "The industry needs to change business models" boils down to expecting the industry to go towards casual flash-based ad supported games like bejeweled or persistent online...

I bet the whole story will come together when the other two sequels are released. Blizzard has to balance between telling a full story and leaving the world not "happily ever after" so there is a story to tell in the Protoss and Zerg games.

I think that one of the issues is that they want the combat to be mostly stat based. FPS games and games like God of War make the combat skill based. If a really skillful player could aim themselves and hit every shot then it would be useless to have any kind of attack rating or accuracy...

I would mention Diablo II for gender equality. Two of the playable classes are female (although they do dress them a little too scantily). Also many of the strong NPCs are female including Flavie, the female Amazon town guards in act one, Akara, Charsi, Fara, Malah, etc. In fact, the closest...

You make it sound like it isn't true. The number of people who are complaining about the patch is a small fraction of the user base. Blizzard needs to change something otherwise what is the point of releasing an expansion. As always the people who don't like a new idea tend to be more vocal...

This has to be the biggest plot hole in the major event of a video game story of all time. Surprised nobody else mentions it. For those of you who don't play Final Fantasy games, there is this very useful inventory item called Phoenix Down that you can use to revive fallen allies. Players...