Kym Worthy and the Evils of Video Games
I touched upon this yesterday in The Rundown, but today let’s analyze the particulars. This week Wayne County, Michigan Prosecutor Kym Worthy released her list of Top 10 Violent Video Games Played By Teens. The list, which is actually a rehash of the Mature rated section of games from the National Institute on Media and the Family Video Game Report Card for 2008, feature’s a who’s who of the most popular “M” rated games in North America. The link between “teens wanting to play these particular games” is tenuous at best, but we’ll get to that in a minute.
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The Rundown: Dec. 15, 2008
2008 is slowly fading to black. Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. Here’s today’s news..
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Category Action, Adventure, Casual, DS, Genres, MMO, Online Play, PC, Platforms, PlayStation 3, RPG, Racing, Wii, WiiWare, Xbox 360, Xbox Live | Tags: Blitz The League II,Combat Arms,Dead Space,Detroit Free Press,Fallout 3,Far Cry 2,gamerDNA,Gears of War 2,Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars,Kym Worthy,Left 4 Dead,Legendary,Resistance 2,Rockstar,Saint's Row 2,Silent Hill,Space Giraffe,Supercar Challenge,Take Two,Wizard101
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SouthPeak Acquires Gamecock Media
Coming virtually out of nowhere this morning, software publisher SouthPeak Interactive, today announced that it has officially completed acquisition of Austin-based publisher Gamecock Media Group.
Gamecock, known as much for its PR stunts (rushing the Spike Video Game Awards stage and putting on a mock funeral for E3) as it is for its games, has published such titles as Dementium: The Ward for the DS, Insecticide on the DS and PC, and most recently Pirates vs. Ninjas Dodgeball on Xbox LIVE Arcade. SouthPeak, meanwhile, is probably best known to gamers for Two Worlds and the upcoming DS release Ninjatown.
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Spark Lets Legendary Achievements Out of the Box
Later this month, gamers will literally open a Pandora’s Box of action when Sparks Unlimited and Gamecock release their upcoming FPS title Legendary to the Xbox 360, PS3, and PC. The game puts gamers in the role of thief Charles Decker, who unknowingly lets himself get suckered into opening the real Pandora’s Box, unleashing all sorts of strange forces and mythological creatures on an unsuspecting world. Making matters worse, Decker gets branded by the Box, and becomes the only person capable of resealing the box and trapping the creatures inside once again.
In an effort to whet gamers’ appetites leading up to the game’s release on October 21st, Spark Unlimited has released a complete list of Achievements available in Legendary. There are 50 total Achievements, totaling 1000 points in all. The Achievements include:
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Legendary Backs Gears Film
Legendary Pictures has picked up the Gears of War movie, according to a report in Variety today. The company responsible for the ultra popular Dark Night film has signed on to co-finance and co-produce the New Line project based on Epic’s popular action game series for the Xbox 360.
The film was set up at New Line last year, with Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey producing through Temple Hill and Gears of War lead designer Cliff Bleszinski is on board as the executive producer and as a consultant representing Epic, which owns the rights.
Len Wiseman is directing Gears, while Chris Morgan is writing the script. New Line is also working on the equally daunting World of Warcraft movie project. Because Legendary is a part of Warner Bros. the movie studio giant now has its fingers in the film as well.
The Gears of War film is pegged for release sometime in the summer of 2009, But Warner Bros. hasn’t given the film an official date.
Source: Variety
