In researching this article I found a disturbing trend that seems to bear itself out across most of the media: Game developers are so uncomfortable with the current situation that they aren't even able to discuss how concerns over violence in video games affects their design philosophies.
Numedeon Inc., creator of the popular Whyville online world for tweens and teens, has announced the opening of a Bankinter virtual branch to help teach kids about the basics of finance.
Marcus Henderson, lead guitarist on the hit PlayStation 2 game Guitar Hero, has joined the Honorary Board of the non-profit musical instruction program Little Kids Rock.
The recently announced delay of Nintendo's Super Smash Bros. Brawl has led IGN GamerMetrics to rethink its list of most anticipated videogames for the holiday season.
Nintendo has confirmed that it will not be dropping Wii prices for the Christmas season, saying that the system will remain at the $249 mark for the foreseeable future.
It began with Jude checking the time, which is harder to do surreptitiously if you're not wearing a watch and instead have to extract your cell phone from your hip pocket. Then Douglas slid into the seat at one of the other computers and starting randomly shooting. While I was explaining the respawn timer, he asked me how to reload, as if the button to reload is ever anything but 'r'. I told him it was ctl-shift-F9, which kept him busy for a while.
