Vik

I'm involved with Pankration (Greek mixed martial arts) and my secret prayers of playing UFC on the Wii would totally be answered if THQ can make a decent version!

Video games fall under the umbrella of what's been tendered as 'interactive media'. I think it will sooner or later videogames will be frequently billed as interactive entertainment

My wife is looking forward to playing on my Wii - no, seriously!

I play when I have time, as well. On a side note, I think once females are re-introduced to the art of videogaming today, the stereotypes of it being a ritualistic male endeavor will die.

My son has asked Santa for a 360 and Forza

"This years-old maneuver shouldn't be making headlines."

Remember when joystiq left a many of you waiting until 12:00am for 'Headline News' and all it ended up being was the fact that IBM was shipping the Wii's processors?

Without indirectly rubbing it in your face, you really should re-evaluate your definition of hipocricy. Lol.

Without even considering the type of gamer involved - I think game design and game length go hand in hand. As an analogy if a novel is written with really long and drawn out chapters, its easy to dog-ear and forget about. But if the chapters are well-written and
immersive it doesnt matter how long the chapter - you'll get through
the book.

The risk you run with an open ended game, is that
it gets shuffled away because of lack of interest if poorly designed. But if the gamegives you the facility for playing in meaningful segments, then it's worth playing all the way through

I, incidently, play all a variety of epic games in small bursts of half-an-hour a day. It
makes for better entertainment than T.V., and its nice, with a few games,to give yourself time to wallow in the suspense about finding out what happens to your character next. More dimensions are added when you have important decisions to make that impact the game as a whole.

Again, without digressing too much further - I
have to restate that game design and length are very much related and influential on the overall play experience. You just can't look at game length independantly.

Going from pushing a button to simulate violence to Simulating a violent act with the Wii mote - is enough controversy to give the media outlets a very spinnable story, and Nintendo a paradigm shift away from the inherited kiddy image.

"..Many kids get bullied and help is RARELY effective, so we can expect some of them to lose some marbles and kill innocents."

I never thought someone could dismiss the death of innocents so quickly. Really, if any of those 'innocents' was related to you - would you really toss it up as inevitable?

And to the rest of the posters - talking about the killer and his (in my eyes *diliberate*) mention of videogames, do you suspect that we've really given the killer more of what he wanted in the first place - a celebrity status?

What this tragedy boils down to - and this really sickens me personally - is that Mr Gill got what he wanted. Why the fuck is his face on a newspaper giving loners and kids that are picked on have a poster child of vengeance? I just don't get how this guy get's to eat his cake by finding his fame (read: infamy) because B-grade publications and mass media despots like the ratings.

It's trash to even post his face on this website and try and skew this into a gaming article. People died and you're going to gloss that over with a 'regrettable' statement?

What I see is some introvert that saw through the fact that no matter how you spin what he was planning to do - his face would end up everywhere. He got that, and we all get to look at ourselves and question our morality for letting him get that.

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=10779

Although the price and release date of the Wii console and controller is not likely to be revealed until worldwide press events on September 14th and 15th, the GameStop website lists a number of peripherals for release on November 1st. Included on the site, as spotted by consumer website GameSpot, is a Wii “Controller Glove” for $9.99, a “HD Premium Component Cable” for $59.99 and a “S-Video Premium AV Cable” for $39.99.

As well as various storage cases and bags, two different SD memory sticks are listed, with the 512MB version priced at $39.99 and the 1GB version at $59.99. The items are all listed as third party products from manufacturers such as MadCatz, BD & A and SanDisk, with no indication of the pricing or nature of any of Nintendo’s own first party products.

POSTED: 05.37AM PST, 09/07/06 - David Jenkins