What face should the military--whose job is to kill people and blow up things--show? The baking cookies with the enemy face, or the singing Kumbaya around the campfire with the terrorists face?
Interesting. I have tried the google image “game”. I didn’t find it to be much fun but a co-worker loves it.
VerBruggen appears to be another of the Ivy League Cliff notes idiots that does zero research before writing and publishing.
Video game systems that require moving around and waving your arms are going to result in less juvenile obesity than the current systems, not more. Ole’ Robert doesn’t get that connection between more exercise and better health, evidently.
The Wii is about the only thing that will get my mother-in-law of her fat lazy a$$. It’s OK with me.
The Wii is an odd ball in the video game universe.
It's primarily targeted to young(er) children and their families. (This isn't a knock against the system, merely an acknowledgment of a difference. I think Nintendo was brilliant to target this market.) I mean, come on, bowling?
Video games are also evolving. Some of today's "games" include: Guitar Hero, Electroplankton, World of Goo, and Spore.
The stock image of the pimply-faced, pale skinned, teenager playing a FPS until 3AM has a sepia tone, nowadays. They still exist and will continue to, but the world has changed.
In-game advertising is another new trend.
Which is nearly universally hated.
While it may have a place in some games (real billboards in the Grand Theft Auto series, for example), ads in games are generally out of place and annoy the user.
The kicker here is who’s buying these ads. In the lead-up to the 2008 election, Barack Obama’s campaign ponied up cash
He had money to burn and wanted the PR?
Like watching professional sports?