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Idle Thumbs: American McGee’s Interview
Idle Thumbs is a gaming site written by people who are “…not cynical burnt-out industry veterans, or self righteous Japanese import snobs who want to show off how hardcore they are. We don’t believe replacing perfectly fine English words with French italicized ones is indicative of a higher intelligence. We’re also not “like The Onion,…
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FBI forms anti-porn squad
Is this government serious? It seems that the US is doomed to fight un-winnable wars. First the war on drugs, then the war on terror, now the war on porn. FBI forms anti-porn squad Last month, the bureau’s Washington Field Office began recruiting for a new anti-obscenity squad. Attached to the job posting was a…
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BDLA Stirs Controversy
Writer Paul Rice recently wrote an article for the Spare Change News discussing the response that Bad Day LA is garnering from some homeless advocates and coalitions. Seems there is some confusion over stereotypes vs. reality, satirical social commentary vs. uninformed disparagement. Remarks from both sides in the article below… Video Game Divides Activists By…
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BDLA Trailer Goes Wide
A quick note to everyone who helped to raise awareness about the Bad Day LA trailer, watched it, and registered it on their wishlists: Thank You! In less than a week you helped to raise the GameStats.com popularity of the game from 0 to 29.4! For an independently developed game that has had zero marketing…
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They Just Left Us Here to Die…
Reading about the hurricane disaster, which continues to unfold in Louisiana since Katrina passed through the region, I am repeatedly struck by a “truth is stranger than fiction” feeling. For instance: Employees at A.J.’s Produce Co. on Chartres Street in the Bywater neighborhood of New Orleans, spray-painted bright-red stern warnings for would-be thieves right on…
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CCT Game Calendar 2006
Wanted to take a moment to bring some attention to a very cool calendar project built around video game art. From the project’s website: CCT Game Calendar 2006 Borne as my private initiative, inspired by the Pirelli Calendar, project aims to create something that will be able to affect non-gamers consciousness of video game industry,…