The News Review:
- NASA: Developers should pay for online game
- Nexon America Ignites Thrilling First Person Shooter Combat Arms
- BBFC to rate online content
- Chinese gamer fumes at quake shutdown
NASA: Developers should pay for online game
FCW.com – May 23, 2008
The space agency wants a game-making studio to develop the game which would be used to teach students about technical and scientific work. However that company would most likely have to sign a nonreimbursable Space Act Agreement meaning that there would be no funds exchanged between the space agency and the developer. MMO games allow hundreds of users to interact in a virtual world. The biggest of these games World of Warcraft has 10 million players worldwide.
Nexon America Ignites Thrilling First Person Shooter Combat Arms
MPOGD.com – May 23, 2008
division of Asia’s leading online game company Nexon Group announced today the launch of Combat Arms its free-to-play online first person shooter. The highly-customizable game is slated for commercial release later this summer but a select group of players will get a chance to fire away in the closed beta test starting May 30th.
BBFC to rate online content
VNUNet.com – May 23, 2008
The BBFC has stressed that is not attempting to censor the internet but toprovide adequate information for those attempting to regulate content viewed byminors. We are talking to all the major players in the arenaPeter Johnson British Board of Film Classification Although BBFC. online will be involved in rating video games which aredownloadable over the internet it will not be involved with online games suchas World of Warcraft. "We are talking to all the major players in the arena" said Peter Johnsonhead of policy at the BBFC. "If you provide a game to the consumer using the internet as a form ofdelivery this is included in the scheme. If the gameplay is hosted online thenit is not included in the scheme. "Over 600 pieces of downloadable content have already been given BBFC ratingsand the organisation said that over 1000 items will have been rated by the endof May.
Chinese gamer fumes at quake shutdown
Inquirer – May 23, 2008
Gao Qianhui 21 posted the video which showed her sitting inside whatappears to be an Internet cafe. After introducing herself as a "common younggirl" from Liaoning province in northeastern China Gao moaned that she had nointerest in coverage of the earthquake. She said only a few people died and face it China didn’t have shortage ofpeople. What was more important was that her favourite game was down for threedays out of respect for the dead.