So I was watching Attack of the Show on G4 and saw this reported. Fox is suing WB, claiming that they own the film rights to Watchmen. And that today the judge denied WB’s request to dismiss the lawsuit. Furthermore, and if the company isn’t already looking enough like douchebags, Fox has stated that they are uninterested in settling. Rather they want Watchmen killed. Simply a scare tactic? Let’s hope so.
Now, before I begin, let me make this clear. I am an atheist. Personal belief, and all that. Don’t give a damn if you believe in God, Allah, Buddah, or the Staypuft Marshmallow Man, it’s all good. But I generally don’t like other Atheists, specifically, those that like to make statements to be included in the “stupidest complaint of the century” awards.
Will Wright has come out as saying, according to Kotaku, militant atheists are complaining about Spore. Why? Because the… wait, what kind of game is Spore? Er… creature building/civilization building/war game/space exploration sim thingy… well, it contains religion for you to have your little dudes worship.
Yes, let’s all get up and complain about something so completely moronic. Because, of course, in order to have an accurate civilization creation game, includiing religion would be innacurate. We never had religion in our older civilizations!
Oh, wait…
In other news, some crazy old homeless guy yelled at a park bench for an hour for “stealin his wimmen,” some whiskey soaked redneck (sorry, Wayne) claimed he was abducted by aliens, and anyone you can descibe as militant is still kind of a moron.
Via Kotaku comes this little piece of… terribly depressing news. Seems the good folks plebians at Edge, the online magazine, have bestowed their “Edge Award For Interactive Innovation” this year, and not to, let’s say, actual innovative games such as Portal or Rock Band, which were in the running, but to Halo f’ing 3. That’s right, the multiplayer game with a single player stappled on as more of an afterthought wins for “innovation.”
Edge’s reason? The online portion of the game. Apparently, all you have to do to be truly innovative in the games industry is to expand on what you’ve already done.
As a proponent of the “games as art school” of thought, this is a slap to the face to every single game company who felt like trying something new, something different with the tools they were provided with, instead the award for innovation goes to the company who plastered what’d they’d done before - admittedly, rather well, but still - over a shiny new face.
Halo 3 and its ilk have a place in the game world, of course - but they’re the summer blockbusters. They’re the ones that don’t get a look in at the award shows because, while everyone enjoys them, they’re not fare worthy of awards beyond “best explosion.”
The longer we do this, give awards such as this to games which monkey what has come before with slightly more successful results, the less movement forward we’ll have, the less likely we’ll see games like “Braid” and “Pixel Junk Eden” being made. You know, games with actual artistic merit.
Over the weekend I was able to get into the Wrath of the Lich King Beta, and since there is no longer an NDA in place, I have decided to do a series of reports on what I find interesting in my adventures. So first, I will show you what is by far the best feature of the game, read more to see the good stuff!
G4 has screwed up. There are many ways I can go with this after that statement, but here is one you probably weren’t expecting. G4 has screwed up because in the mornings they are now showing what they USED to be, a channel about videogames. Some of the fair isn’t all that great. (old X-play, I’m looking at you) However you can see a commitment to gaming in those old telecasts. Now what do we get? Cops, Japanese game shows, and a show about people upchucking (No, I’m not kidding). I don’t know who the monkey’s are that run this channel, but frankly, I think its time to get rid of the utter bullcrap and get back to what I even wanted the damn channel for.