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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November Hardware and Software Sales
NPD sales data numbers for the month of Nov. 2008 are in, and to its competition’s chagrin, Nintendo continues to dominate the hardware sales chart. for the month of November, Nintendo managed to sell through 2.04 million units in North America, outpacing its own sales numbers from the same period a year ago (981K) by twofold. The Nintendo Ds also did pretty well during the month, moving 1.57 million units, up slightly from 1.53 million in Nov. 2007.
While Nintendo’s platforms continue to take the rest of the pack to the woodshed on a regular basis, there’s some good news for Microsoft and some even more bad news for Sony; the Xbox 360 sold 836K units in Nov., up slightly from 770K units a year ago beating out the PS3, PSP and PS2. The PS3 moved 378K units, but was down from 466K a year ago. The PSP moved 421K units, but was down from 567K in the same period a year ago, and the aging PS2 moved 206K units - down substantially from 496K units in Nov. 2007. (more after the break)
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The Rundown: Dec. 11, 2008
All the little fishies in one place. Read on.
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Sony E3 Press Conference Highlights
Sony’s E3 Press Briefing end a little while ago, and much like it began, it ended with little fanfare. The company tried to drive home the point that, like its PS2 console, the PS3’s path to success is a ten year plan (just like the girlfriend in Big Daddy). Unlike Microsoft, Sony didn’t show us a lot of live gameplay but the video montages flowed like wine. Here are the highlights:
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Category Film, Online Play, Other, PC, PSP, Platforms, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Network, Xbox 360 | Tags: E3,God of War III,Infamous,Killzone II,Movies,PS2,Ratchet and Clank,Resistance 2,TV
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