M.M.O.F.O's and other video-game thugs
by Bonnie Ruberg 
{ Mar 8th 2007 at 8:24PM }
Prepare to take a beating. Yesterday and today, independent New York developer Gamelab has been heading Gangs of GDC, an in-conference game running on various floors of the expo center. The idea is to join a video-game gang (choices include sects like the M.M.O.F.O's) and then fight rival gang members for control of on-screen territory. Players use their cell phones to call in for gang assignments, then they stand by a Gang TV to get paired off with another knife-wielding thug. Why do all that? Because it gives us a chance to play while we learn about playing. Also because what the Game Developers Conference needed was a little, old-fashioned gang violence.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Dave @ Mar 8th 2007 9:19PM
I'm confused. Is this the white video game culture everyone keeps talking about?
REUYL @ Mar 8th 2007 9:57PM
Massive mofo's? WTF?
Jon-Angelo @ Mar 8th 2007 11:30PM
Why?!?
QS @ Mar 9th 2007 2:20PM
last person shooters kickin ass and takin names
Dustin @ Mar 9th 2007 1:12AM
yeah. those gangs are trouble, I got stabbed yesterday with a wii controller whittled down into a shiv.
Rubang B @ Mar 9th 2007 6:29AM
Wasn't the Wiist Side Riders then. We whittle our shivs out of GameCube microphones. And we never shank a dev who didn't deserve it.