Should The Last of Us be nominated for an Academy Award? As the video game industry continues to mature in terms of storytelling and character development and as the lines continue to blur between video games and movies. It seems as though it’s only a matter of time until video games are universally respected in the same vein as movies are. One of the finer examples of this is Naughty Dog...
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Quantic Dream’s Beyond: Two Souls Might Disappoint At E3 2012, Quantic Dream announced their latest game, Beyond: Two Souls. It had been an anticipated announcement since Quantic Dream’s last game was Heavy Rain, a critically and commercially successful game. So, when Quantic Dream showed off Beyond: Two Souls everybody in the PlayStation community couldn’t help but be excited. ...
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United States Vice President, Joe Biden, sees nothing wrong with taxing violent video games. A sin tax is in the works for violent video games. Throughout history different forms of entertainment have been blamed for what goes wrong in the world. In the 1920’s, ragtime and jazz were the blame and why the youth was corrupted back in that day. In the 1960’s comic books were said to rotte...
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The Consumerist held a poll and for the second straight year EA won the honor of being named the ‘worst company in America’ for the second straight year. It’s March madness, everybody is doing brackets, and the Consumerist they did a poll of the worst companies in America. They’ve done this for awhile now, and this year it was down between the defending champion Electronic...
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One of the hot topics that continues to rage on in the United States today is guns, violent media, particularly violent video games. Just about any news station you turn it on, you’ll see a group of “analysis” or “experts” giving their opinion about how video games should be banned, they should be controlled, but without really backing it up with anything of substance...
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