(+3 rating, 3 votes) Our very own Scott Jones recently shaved and put on a very loud shirt (my opinion - man that thing lit my eyes on fire!) for an appearance on the CNN gaming segment Get Your Game On. Scott talks about how to “get your game on” and still be able to afford to do the basics.. like eating. Yay for eating! Check out the segment after the jump:
(No Ratings Yet) Kevin McCullough’s post entitled The Sex-Box Race for President over at the conservative-leaning TownHall.com takes some cheap shots at Mass Effect and the game industry in general. In his post McCullough opines about the evils of Mass Effect (read: depraved sexual content therein), and cites examples to back it up, all with the design of soliciting a response from the current crop of presidential candidates. Here’’s an excerpt, with apologies in advance to our readers:
I know that they all probably assume they have better, much more important, urgent, timely, things to campaign on, but I sure would like to get their individual takes on the new video game that one company is marketing to fifteen year old boys.It’’s called Mass Effect and it allows its players - universally male no doubt - to engage in the most realistic sex acts ever conceived. One can custom design the shape, form, bodies, race, hair style, breast size of the images they wish to engage and then watch in crystal clear, LCD, 54 inch screen, HD clarity as the video game persons hump in every form, format, multiple, gender-oriented possibility they can think of.
The biggest problem with this story is that uses just enough truth to season McCullough’’s argument, while adding some imaginary spices of his own design. Mass Effect is rated M for Mature by the ESRB for Blood, Language, Partial Nudity, Sexual Themes, Violence.
The game does contain sexually suggestive scenes, which come to fruition by making a series of dialog choices with certain characters. This can lead to a PG-rated depiction of sex, with the end result being some partial nudity (side-butt, side-boob) and suggestive dialog.
The real point of contention with McCullough is that Mass Effect allows for a same-sex relationship and eventually a sexually charged cut-scene involving alien squad-mate Liara and a female version of Commander Sheppard. Nice.
There’’s no depictions of sodomy or rape in Mass EffectM, according to the ESRB’’s descriptors — and more importantly, no motor-boatin”.
(No Ratings Yet) Longtime GameSpot staffer Alex Navarro has left the company, according to Joystiq. I felt like it was just time for me to go, he told Joystiq in a recent interview with the popular blog. Navarro had been a mainstay of GameSpot since early 2003, but the recent controversy with Jeff Gerstmann being fired over a Kane & Lynch review sealed the deal for him. Word inside the company is that parent company CNET has been applying pressure to GameSpot staff to provide softer coverage on advertiser’’s products. CNET has never issued a public statement on the Gerstmann incident.
Navarro has written hundreds of product reviews and was a regular on GameSpot’’s podcast, The Hotspot. His final day at GameSpot will be Jan. 24th.
