U.S. senator introduces video game rating legislation. Guess what this law wants? Video games with age rating labels. You know, like the ones that have already been the standard for years! However, this sort of law would probably make homebrew games or (currently legal) online downloads of games illegal. Of course these laws never look at movie DVDs. In fact, tons of movies that had a rating in theaters come out with an unrated DVD to get around all of the censorship and cuts they made to get a rating that would allow them to either get in theaters (avoid an NC17) or to get a wider audience (PG13). So why aren't they worried about these supposedly impressionable kids getting their hands on R-rated or unrated DVDs? Probably because the public realizes that aside from a few idiots nobody takes film sex and violence seriously. Some people, mostly older people who don't know any better, aren't aware that games are the same as any other form of entertainment. Instead more tax dollars are wasted on some sort of new phantom boogeyman.
What the Dark Knight tells us about game rating laws. A comparison of how video games and movies are rated.
Piracy-Schmiracy: THE DARK KNIGHT rakes in the dough. I've said it before, I'll say it again: I hate going to see movies in theaters these days. It's a chore dealing with all of the idiots that go there to do anything but watch the fucking movie. Home theater is where it's at.
New SPLINTER CELL game coming out eventually, just not any time soon. Feel free to imagine the sounds of my shrieking after reading that.
Over at io9 they have an exlusive interview with DOCTOR WHO's Steven Moffat. It's an interesting read for WHO fans. There's also an interview with him from the SDCC over at ComingsSoon.net.
UK ISPs move down the slippery slope of becoming copyright cops. My condolences UK.
Pittsburgh cancer center warns of cell phone risks. I should be safe since I routinely forget my phone on my desk and hardly ever use it.
Official: Comic-Con jumps the shark. Let's face it, it's not a comic book convention anymore. It's a Hollywood movie and TV show festival where they let in some idiot nerds who dress up in costumes so that people can post pictures of them on the internet for the rest of us to laugh at. Oh it's also where some comics companies also have a few panels as well, because those guys crank out source material for Hollywood to strip mine. (It's hardly the only con turning that way either.)
What the Dark Knight tells us about game rating laws. A comparison of how video games and movies are rated.
Piracy-Schmiracy: THE DARK KNIGHT rakes in the dough. I've said it before, I'll say it again: I hate going to see movies in theaters these days. It's a chore dealing with all of the idiots that go there to do anything but watch the fucking movie. Home theater is where it's at.
New SPLINTER CELL game coming out eventually, just not any time soon. Feel free to imagine the sounds of my shrieking after reading that.
Over at io9 they have an exlusive interview with DOCTOR WHO's Steven Moffat. It's an interesting read for WHO fans. There's also an interview with him from the SDCC over at ComingsSoon.net.
UK ISPs move down the slippery slope of becoming copyright cops. My condolences UK.
Pittsburgh cancer center warns of cell phone risks. I should be safe since I routinely forget my phone on my desk and hardly ever use it.
Official: Comic-Con jumps the shark. Let's face it, it's not a comic book convention anymore. It's a Hollywood movie and TV show festival where they let in some idiot nerds who dress up in costumes so that people can post pictures of them on the internet for the rest of us to laugh at. Oh it's also where some comics companies also have a few panels as well, because those guys crank out source material for Hollywood to strip mine. (It's hardly the only con turning that way either.)
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