Halo 3 a nuisance? I doubt it… September 24, 2007
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As referenced on /., gamepolitics.com reports that Attorney Jack Thompson seeks to have Halo 3 declared a public nuisance.
Riggghhht.
This reminds me…at GenCon, we were meeting up with our dinner group at one of the hotel bars, and this guy next to Julie started asking just what was going on…he was in town dropping his son of at college. He kept coming back to this point…what do you say to parents whose kids spend too much time playing video games? (Nevermind me trying to explain to him briefly the difference between table top and video games.)
Since we were ditching out anyway, I never came up with a good answer for him…but I’ve thought about it since. And really it’s an easy answer. When I was a kid, I didn’t have any video games. And you know what? I still found plenty of things to do to “waste time” and sandbag on homework. It’s kind of like the phrase “guns don’t kill people, people shooting guns kill people”. Or in this case, “video games don’t waste time, people playing video games waste time”.
Video games are leisure recreation…and honestly, probably a bit more mentally engaging than say, just watching tv, which, guess what, is probably what kids are doing if they aren’t on the computer/console.
What’s really funny to me….this guy, he had never considered that people make a living making games of any kind. It never occurred to him that a game, a video game, rpg, etc., it needs a writer, artists, editors, designers, etc. Apparently in his world they just grew like magic mushrooms in the video stores.
So, is Halo 3 a nuisance? Of course not…it’s more akin to the next big media event of the year…I’m curious to see how this and Harry Potter stack up to the big movies of the year… – B
WizKids parent Topps to be sold to Eisner investors… September 20, 2007
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You can read details HERE. After a bit of a dust up with UDE of VS. and Yu-Gi-Oh! fame, Topps has taken the lower offer from the Eisner led investment group Tornante. Eisner, formerly of Disney, ironically will have his hands on a Disney product line indirectly, with WizKids recently picking up the right to Pirates of the Caribbean.
It’s not clear how big WizKids portion of the Topps pie is at this time…but they have been doing strong work picking up licenses (including the hottest license this month…Halo)…I get the feeling they will survive this fairly unscathed. Of course…the biggest problem is that now WK is two levels below the ownership…so they will either fly under the radar, or get trampled under foot…time will tell.
Personally, I would have been interested to see what UDE would have done with Topps, particularly on the gaming side…it seems like it would have been a slam dunk to cross market the Marvel and DC minis and ccg’s, but I guess we will never know.
The Force Un-Wii-shed September 19, 2007
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Announced today…The Force Unleashed video game will be Unleashed on the Nintendo Wii as well…including a unique “use the controller like a lightsaber” function.
Right…like I needed another excuse to buy a Wii.
Also…watching the trailer…the special effects in the this game look awesome…and it gives me a lot of hope for an animated series…
