So, the advocate against videogame violence is now out of vogue. Lawyer and videogame violence against guy Jack Thompson is now being turned on by people that he once regarded as allies. The news that the National Institute of Media and Family has distanced themselves from Thompson is a letter asking him to stop laying claim to them as a ally. This was only a few days after Thompson had proposed a challenge to the gaming developer community to make a game based on his proposal. The proposa...

Once upon a time, there was a company that wanted to revolutionize the gaming industry. Infinium Labs wanted to be asked into your homes and played with. They had a great idea for a system, and that was a broadband gaming system that gave you games from the net. A golden age of gaming was about to begin. This revolutionary system was going to allow you to get games without leaving hte house, plus have a chance for indie developers to get their names out in the world by allowing them to sell t...

I have recieved a ton of e-mails asking me why I hate the Xbox. I'm not sure where that idea had come from, but I am here to explain a few things. First, I will freely admit that I love the PS2. It wasn't that they were faster or had a better ad campaign, I just liked them. It took a lot for me to hang my Nintendo fanboy hat up a long time ago, when I was hoping beyond impossible odds that the N 64 would outshine the PSone. Nintendo, that family-conscience, introduced me to a lot in it's d...

So, with fall here and winter approaching, what can we expect from the movie industry? Will we be disappointed like so many were with remakes in the summer? Will there be reasons to head out to the movies with friends and families during the holidays? Let's see what is coming out. Not to say that the summer didn't have winners for me, like 40 Year old Virgin, but this past summer seemed like big remake time. The Fog: This is, of course, a remake. John Carpenter, a master of horror, allows...

Well, I did. I was shocked that it was out. There was very little fanfare about it, and then the TV spots showed up. What do I think from that 20 secs on the air? Thumbs down. The monster didn't look scary, but a albino pig. And I cna't say that a movie that is supposed to be eerie and scary could be with the Rock in it. 'Nuff said.

So, some of you might not have heard of Jack Thompson before. The well-respected lawyer is a furious, angry advocate against videogame violence. Since he has taken his crusade to the media in the last while, he has challanged the makers of GTA and other game makers to pull what he calls filth off the shelves. He has addressed many challenges to game makers to put violence aside. He even yelled frantically that he would never see ' 25 to Life' hit the shelves. Some companies listened, but ...

So, Peter Jackson has been given a 7 figure advance to produce the movie debut of the massively popular Xbox game. No word on who will direct it, whether it be Jackson or the other lucky man to be offered a advance for producing, Fran Walsh. I'm not sure if the issue here will be ' Will this movie suck?'. Peter Jackson has shown that he has a falre for making a good movie. I'm not touting up LotR, though most fans would agree that it was a great set of movies when compared to the books. J...

With the current push by Microsoft to put out the Xbox 360 before it's two main conpetitors have a console out of the box, the question is will Sony lose out in the next gen console war? Sony had a sweet grace period last time new consoles were announced. Microsoft was new to the whole idea of a gaming console and took a little more time in developing it's system, which eventually took second place in the war that is coming to a end. The original developers of the Xbox had wanted something...

So, in my province, British Columbia, the Supreme Court has decided that it will sue Tobacco companies for 50 years of damage done to smokers by smoking. 50 years! The Supreme Court ruled that the Tobacco companies willfully sold a product that has both long term and short term effects that can cause many things, including death. Wow, that is a revelation, isn't it folks? THe Supreme Court ALSO said that it will sue on behalf of the patients that have been recieving medical care un...

It is the battle of VHS vs. Beta all over again. The big guns are starting to pick their sides in the next 'media revolution', that being the next form of media for us lucky consumers to buy. That is correct, Dorothy, there is a new Standard coming out. The much touted BlueRay discs vs HD-DVD. The Playstation 3, one of hte most expected game consoles, is going with a Blue Ray format, which allows up to 50 Gigs of storage on the disc. Blue Ray has been expected to take the crown as the nex...

As many of you have probably read by now, a admitted pirate in the vacinity of Houston, Texas, has been fined $1.1 million dollars from having over 5,100 counterfiet copies of Symantec's Norton products. Li Chen, owner of Microsource International, was also found to have sold over 9.9 million dollars in pirated software. The total restitution came to 1,005,000 million US, with Microsoft recieving $95,000 due to licensing agreements. This is certainly a reason to rally for software makers ...

So, I bought a album the other day and thought it was great. Now, I don't normally purchase music, but I do when it is a band that I like, and has proven that there will be more than a catchy single on the CD. The one I purchased was the new alubm by a group from texas called Bowling For Soup. I am a big fan of their music and for that, I bought the CD. Now, I don't want cries of unfairness for any of the music I own, legally or not. That is not what this is about, but I will say this: I...

The power that a celebrity has is a strange one. For the most part, we as the consumer let them into our houses and lives for brief times to fill a purpose. Most of that time, it is for entertainment value. Only in America can we take a New Jerseian that tried to have his wife killed by his mistress and give him 15 minutes of fame. A place where a intern in the white house can go on for years making money telling about the cigar and the dress. Only here, in this country, can we take a spo...

First, let me say that, for once, I tend to dismiss a celebrity out of hand. I had read her statement and actually sat there with my mouth hanging open until a friend asked me what is wrong and I made them read the single most retarded statement I have read all year. It seems to me that the author, which until a few years ago have respected, seems to be dropping deeper and deeper into a cocoon of insanity. While the response to the disaster of Katrina may have some people scratching their ...

I had heard that there was a Final Fantasy movie hitting the streets that took up the story of our favorite heroes from Final Fantasy VII. Well, all ecpect that one dead girl anyway. The point is, after a long silene, FF VII, still a benchmark in videogame amazement, was coming back in style. There are, also I might add, a couple of games that are also coming out that revisit parts of the FFVII mythos, one in particular, Final Fantasy: Dirge of Cerebus. This first person type perspective ...