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New games this week: Super Paper Mario edition {Joystiq}
Apr 9th 2007 4:51PM I wonder if the fact that Too Human was once a GameCube game will hang over its head forever, similar to this game...
Drip, drip, drip Nintendo Q2 releases {Joystiq}
Mar 11th 2007 3:14AM stupid stock sale.
Sorry, the Wii isn't crap {Joystiq}
Mar 9th 2007 12:11PM He's obviously engaging in what developers do best: making a statement and then cowering at the pressure. Cutting and running, right?
Joseph Saulter: 'Why should I have to be a white man?' {Joystiq}
Mar 8th 2007 5:53PM that should say "when they greenlighted"
Joseph Saulter: 'Why should I have to be a white man?' {Joystiq}
Mar 8th 2007 5:52PM Yes, "Miniboss", but the unfortunate reality is that teams of all white developers have made games depicting one-dimensional stereotypes. 25 to Life ring a bell? How about 187 Ride or Die? Need I mention GTA? We they greenlighted these games they opened up this can of worms. If they didn't exist we wouldn't have to talk about them.
Joseph Saulter: 'Why should I have to be a white man?' {Joystiq}
Mar 8th 2007 5:37PM http://www.joystiq.com/2007/02/17/criticism-of-racial-stereotyping-in-games/
Game development is ignoring a wealth of culutral influences that could potentially improve the overall quality of the experience and flesh out the "narrowness" of which he speaks. Hopefully western developers have grasped his idea.
Today's Princeliest game video: Prince of Persia Wii - Levers & Ledges [UPDATE 2] {Joystiq}
Mar 2nd 2007 12:43AM Ditto that. Plus, maybe next video they'll get some body who has actually played through the level before. Though if it really is being controlled with the Wii remote, the control isn't all that bad judging by his constant progression.
GamePro analyzes possible (and not so possible) GDC predictions {Joystiq}
Feb 26th 2007 9:16PM Smash Bros. in '08? Over my dead body.
Wii Warm Up: Brawlin, Corrupting, or traversing the Galaxy? {Joystiq Nintendo}
Feb 24th 2007 1:15PM Brawl.
Criticism of racial stereotyping in games {Joystiq}
Feb 19th 2007 6:22PM hei·nous: adj.:
utterly evil: shockingly evil or wicked
[14th century. < Old French haineus < hair "to hate" < Germanic]
hei·nous·ly adverb
hei·nous·ness noun
According to the 2003 statistics labeled under "hate crime," released by the FBI, "with regard to the attribute of race, among the 6,934 reported offenders, 62.3 percent were white, and 18.5 percent were black. The race was unknown for 10.7 percent of offenders, and the remainder were of other races or were members of a group composed of offenders of varying races."
http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/defenseandsecurity/a/hatecrimes03.htm
If you want to continue with your argument Helmgren, consider using a different adjective.
Anyway, back to the nature of the article. Ricard O. Jones is stating the facts, and among other things I having a hard time understanding why this can just be taken as it is. More blacks and Hispanics need to be involved in the production of electonic entertainment because even more than other forms of media, games are linear in their story presentation. Books, movies, and television were all at this point once before. If we want games to evolve into a viable medium for story presentation, more characters representing the nation's, and more often than not the player's, background have to be made available.
But instead this post has attracted the most polarized, closed-minded shut-ins on the Internet, who spend their whole lives around those of the same color. Every other minority is just supposed to "shut up complaining!!!1" and be content with their in-game depiction as the villians or the victimized, because that's what they are in "real life".
