The News Review:
- Game rating to confound censor trade body chief claims
- Bloomberg.com: Investment Tools
- ION 2008 – Alex St. John Providing Closing Keynote
- SPIEGEL ONLINE INTERVIEW WITH DAN HOUSER ‘Grand Theft Auto Is a…
- Friday’s Hawks game sold out but options remain
- Bloomberg.com: Investment Tools
- Latest ‘Grand Theft Auto’ steps it up a level
Game rating to confound censor trade body chief claims
Register – Apr 30, 2008
She told Register Hardware that the organisation isn’t worried about the extra workload. ?If the BBFC has to classify lots more games then we?ll hire more people to do that and deal with the extra workload. Classification of online games isn?t something the BBFC has concerns about? she said. The BBFC told us that it doesn?t play all of a videogame such as the notorious Manhunt 2 in order to award it a classification. Publishers are required to highlight material within a game that might warrant certification. The Byron Review last month called for cinema-style age labels to be adopted alongside elements of Pegi.
Bloomberg.com: Investment Tools
Bloomberg – Apr 30, 2008
Members of this exclusive program will be asked to test and reportany issues for all new Slingo games before they are released on Slingo's freeonline casual game website and made available to the Slingo member community. Not only will members of this elite group be some of the first people outsideof the Slingo corporate office to play new upcoming free games from.
ION 2008 – Alex St. John Providing Closing Keynote
MPOGD.com – Apr 30, 2008
"Alex has established himself as a forceful voice for out-of-the box thinking for online game development and distribution" said Peter Freese director for the ION Game Conference. "He’s just the kind of voice we need to give some final food for thought to developers after taking in the ION experience. "WildTangent is the leading online game publisher with the most ubiquitous gaming platform on the Internet today. Prior to founding WildTangent in 1998 St. John was one of the principal creators of Microsoft’s DirectX technology which became the foundation for all Windows multimedia applications 3D graphics media players as well as thousands of PC and Xbox games. Alex is widely considered to have his finger on the pulse of the gaming industry and is a frequent speaker at industry events. "Emerging trends among enthusiast and casual gamers indicate a sea change in the gaming industry at large" St… In fact research tells us that gamers spend more time playing on a PC than they do on any console which highlights the immense opportunities for developers and publishers of PC and online games. John joins 110 online game industry leaders speaking at almost 70 sessions at the 2008 ION Game Conference. To take a look at the complete agenda planned for attendees visit.
SPIEGEL ONLINE INTERVIEW WITH DAN HOUSER ‘Grand Theft Auto Is a…
Spiegel Online – Apr 30, 2008
We get them cut out sometimes by regulatory bodies like in Germany. SPIEGEL ONLINE: Don’t you think games should change to avoid this kind of controversy?REPRINTS. Houser: If you fight for what you believe in you survive you’ll do well… The problem is that the media thinks they are stupid. The media is either created for morons or is insanely highbrow like the New York Times or TheNew Yorker. SPIEGEL ONLINE: Would it be easier for game companies if more people reading the New York Times would be playing?Houser: A lot of people who play read those papers. The weird thing about people who don’t play games is they can’t accept that it’s an OK thing to do. I would never say don’t read books play games. Do both! Games are part of the culture and there’s some amazing stuff there and some absolute crap — as in all other forms of media. RELATED SPIEGEL ONLINE LINKS.
Friday’s Hawks game sold out but options remain
Atlanta Journal Constitution – Apr 30, 2008
com and its phone number 404-881-2500. • StubHub an online marketplace for tickets is a subsidiary of eBay Inc. It had more than 600 tickets for Friday’s game at prices of $41 to $430 said Joellen Ferrer a StubHub spokewoman. The average selling price was $100. Its Web site is www.
Bloomberg.com: Investment Tools
Bloomberg – Apr 30, 2008
com (the dominantsocial networking site focused on college students and white-collarworkers) mop. com (the largest entertainment portal) and donews. com(the leading IT blogging site) through organic growth and acquisitionand a fast growing online game business line including the biggestbrowser based MMORPG in China. Total registered user base is about 50million and the daily page views of all the internet assets are ashigh as 350 million as of early 2008. For further information on the managementand the businesses of the company see.
Latest ‘Grand Theft Auto’ steps it up a level
PopMatters – Apr 30, 2008
For the first time fans will get to play gangsters online with up to 16 players simultaneously. That means player-on-player drive-by shootings running over others with various vehicles and even using the whirling blades of a stolen helicopter to shear enemies into pieces—all while chatting over the Internet. “Online play is easily more fun because you can interact with people around the world” John Perry a 16-year-old gamer said as he was selling used games at Video Game Control. Daniel Brown manager of that store agreed. “I think people are going to spend a lot of time playing GTA online” Brown said. Perry and other fans say it isn’t the murder and mayhem that make the “Grand Theft Auto” games so popular—it’s the open urban “sandbox” environment that is most appealing. For example players can ignore the game’s plot and drive through the city while listening to virtual radio stations collect different vehicles or complete missions to earn money and buy clothing and other items for their characters.