You’d play this.

(Via Hot Air Headlines) At least, those of you who play video games would play this.

Don’t try to lie about it, either.

Moe Lane

PS: I’m pretty sure that it’s not real.  Which is a pity: I need a new waiting-for-Dragon Age 2 game, now that I’ve done my third run-through of KOTOR 2 and have decided that I have no interest in a Dark Side run.

Banner day today.

Finished KOTOR 2 and finally pulled off my old files from my old hard drive.  Not that people particularly care about either, but this is the Internet, and talking about things that other people don’t particularly care about is just one of the many things that we do here.

Of course, now I have to play KOTOR 2 again to see all the stuff that I missed the first time not to mention correct the dumb mistake I made throughout the game in thinking that what my light-saber wielding Jedi needed was more and more DEX at the extent of STR, all the while wondering why I was never hitting anything in melee*.  It’s either that or break down and start playing Assassin’s Creed 2… which was meant to be a gift for my wife in the first place.

Moe Lane

*Trust me: the people who played 3rd Ed D&D are pointing and laughing at me right now.

#rsrh USSC to review video game ban appeal.

Sorry that the title isn’t snappy, but it happens.

High Court Will Rule On Violent Video Game Ban

The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether California can ban the sale or rental of violent video games to children.

The court will review a federal court’s decision to throw out California’s ban.

The court in question is the 9th, which has a long and in/glorious (depending on who you ask) history of having its rulings smacked down by the USSC.  Preliminary assumption is that they’ll sustain it, given that there was a roughly similar case last week involving animal cruelty that got struck down – but it’s the Supreme Court.  You never know what those wacky guys and gals over there are going to do.

Moe Lane

PS: My opinion is that I don’t need the legislature to help me decide whether or not I should let my kids have access to violent video games.  And that I don’t need the courts to validate my decision, either; that door swings in both directions.

Personally, I worry about the rampant secularism involved.


Are Violent Video Games Adequately Preparing Children For The Apocalypse?

After all, nods to demonic infestation via the undead menace are all very well, but I feel that our video game makers are relying too much on the crutch of zombies to fulfill their supernatural liability requirements. Don’t get me wrong, I think that putting down walking corpses is a useful life skill, but there’s more to combating the ravening forces of Hell than that. We need to avoid falling prey to faddishness.