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Taxing Measures

Star Locke doesn't like violent video games. He ranks them up there with abortion and soft drinks and as a running platform for governor in Texas, he wants to see them taxed.

"So our concept is that we need to tax things we don't want and you want to not tax things that you want to encourage."

This translates to a 50% tax on all violent video games, among other things.

Posted by foyleman in Gaming News on Jan 25, 2006

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Word on the net is that Stargate SG1 has been cancelled again. First we had JoWood step up last year and state the the game was cancelled. Then Perception announced that they are the actual license owners of the game and that it was not cancelled. Then Namco was heard to be on the development of the game. Now we have a rumor that MGM and/or Perception will be making an offici... [ There's more ]

Posted by foyleman in Gaming News on Jan 22, 2006

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A Game with no Story

Buzzscope has an article by David Rodriquez that discusses the over abundance of cutscenes in games. He is disgusted that the time spent playing a game is nothing more than a means to get from one cutscene to another.

...We’re supposed to bemaking games, and instead we are making ridiculous, half-assed movies.

Movies are linear, passive entertainment. You sit there and watch th... [ There's more ]

Posted by foyleman in Gaming News on Jan 21, 2006

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TimeShift Screenies

Here I am talking about the game just last week... and now it's hitting the presses. I had a chance to visit Saber Interactive and checkout their coming game, TimeShift. Shacknews is posting new screenshots of the game today. You can read what I had to say in the forums.... [ There's more ]

Posted by foyleman in Gaming News on Jan 16, 2006

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PC games we can expect in 2006

The American on-line store EBGames has published a list of about 50 pc games that are to be released this year. Add a bag of salt though, as release dates are known to change a lot.Here goes:

Alan Wake - 1/31/2006 (!)
Rainbow Six: Lockdown - 2/7/2006
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Posted by Foxhound in Gaming News on Jan 3, 2006

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Darsana

Here's a new game in production that could turn into something big. Darsana is a free, stand alone game. Built on an RPG engine, it's a midieval FPS game for multiplayer action. The game is still in production and looking for more people to help out. Check out what they have going on so far.
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Posted by foyleman in Gaming News on Jan 2, 2006

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MS School of Gaming

Miscrosoft is hoisting a series of FREE webcasts in January andFebruary. These classes are designed to show you how to program for 3DGame development using C#. Any programmers out there will surely beinterested in checking this out.

The first one is to air on January 16 and will consist of:

Get a basic understanding of how to create three-dimensional (3-D) games in this eleven-part ... [ There's more ]

Posted by foyleman in Gaming News on Dec 30, 2005

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WoW 5 Million Strong

Holy cow.. Blizzard Entertainment has announced in a press release that they have over 5 million subscribers to World of Warcraft. What the heck kind of bank can accept nearly $75 million per month. That is.... whew, alot of cash.... [ There's more ]

Posted by foyleman in Gaming News on Dec 20, 2005

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NIMF and ESRB Go At It

Geez, this would make a great MODSonair topic. Check this out...

The National Institute for Media and Family sent out report cards to the game industry for the 10th year. While alot of areas sch as retailers all got D- grades, anything related to ESRB received F grades for such things as the accuracy of ratings.

Well, the Entertainment Software Ratings Board comes back and says that NIMF is doing nothin... [ There's more ]

Posted by foyleman in Gaming News on Dec 8, 2005

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Valve's Next - A Sim Game?

Robin Walker of Valve recently mentioned in an interview that the Valve may be working on a game that isn't a FPS or an action game at all. That they want to build what sounds like a sim game or what they term as "cooperative building games".

You can read more about what is implied in this article from the 2005 Digital Interactive Entertainment Conference.

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Posted by foyleman in Gaming News on Dec 7, 2005