Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Links For 1-5-2010

Rational Behavior

McNuggets Rage. "Cops: Woman put fist through drive-thru window over chicken beef." Is it me, or are the more of these stories all the time out there?

Entertainment

Sony accidentally releases ARMORED via PlayStation Store, for free. Honestly, I think it would be cool if they randomly did stuff like this on purpose. Take a movie in theaters and then make it available for free for a limited time without announcement. Provided the movie didn't suck it could generate good word of mouth for the movie, and people would be more interested in the movies section of the Playstation store.

Figuring out DOCTOR WHO's lingering mysteries. Or all the stuff Davies was too lazy to explain. (I did cave and watch the entire second part of the finale on OnDemand earlier today.)

Video Games

Sega 'probably not' making more hardcore Wii games. Makes sense. The Wii is more for casual gamers, let's be honest. Nothing wrong with that.

Capcom worried about anti-videogame 'smear campaigns'. It's interesting to hear a company (aside from Rockstar) address the issue.

What GRAND THEFT AUTO could perform theft on. A few games that GTA could learn from, including GTA's clone SAINTS ROW.

There are responsible parents out there. These sound like people who won't be blaming video games if their kids do something bad. On the other hand...

39% of British parents let kids play adult games. The parents in this same poll also let their kids watch movies that were rated beyond their age level as well.

Yarr

Money expert: industry should compete with music piracy. But... but... that would make... sense! So clearly, they can't do that. It's baffling that legal online music is overpriced when you realize that disc and packaging manufacturing and shipping costs are eliminated. Well, it's not baffling once you realize that the prices are high out of pure greed.

Bono: We should use China's censorship as an example of how to stop piracy. I've always thought he was smug and arrogant, now I can add idiot to that list as well. Awesome. Besides, he clearly doesn't know... How China's attempts to censor the internet are failing. Moron.

Will France's three strikes law matter? No, whether it were to happen now, or be delayed like it has been. I hope it's a huge failure so other countries realize how futile and stupid a gesture it is to pass such a law.

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